Faces and social information
How information about a person (morality, gaze, first impressions) changes the way we perceive and evaluate faces.
KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY / EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
How do people selectthe visual informationthey need?
Ogwlab (Ogawa Lab) is an experimental psychology laboratory at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan, led by Professor Hirokazu Ogawa. We study visual attention, face perception, learning, and decision making through behavioral experiments and eye tracking.
RESEARCH
Research
Statistical learning and attentional control
How regularities in the environment and past selection/reward history shape attentional capture and search strategies, and how they are updated.
Perceptual experience and consumer psychology
How seeing, experiencing, and predictability shape what people prefer and choose.
PEOPLE
People
Ogwlab is led by Professor Hirokazu Ogawa and currently includes graduate students working on perception, attention, and social cognition.
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Join us
Ogwlab accepts master's and doctoral students through the Graduate School of Humanities (Integrated Psychological Science) at Kwansei Gakuin University. Applicants from other universities are welcome. You must contact us before applying.
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Contact
Use the form below to contact Ogwlab about graduate study, JSPS fellowships, research collaboration, or other inquiries. Messages in English or Japanese are both welcome.
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