Nobu Shirai

450 total citations
43 papers, 351 citations indexed

About

Nobu Shirai is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nobu Shirai has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 351 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 11 papers in Social Psychology and 9 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nobu Shirai's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (29 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (8 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (7 papers). Nobu Shirai is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (29 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (8 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (7 papers). Nobu Shirai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Australia and United Kingdom. Nobu Shirai's co-authors include Masami K. Yamaguchi, So Kanazawa, Tomoko Imura, Yumiko Otsuka, Takeharu Seno, Masaki Tomonaga, Akihiro Yagi, Yuji Wada, Shigeru Ichihara and John Wattam-Bell and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Nobu Shirai

41 papers receiving 338 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nobu Shirai Japan	12	284	81	53	46	41	43	351
Bat‐Sheva Hadad Israel	13	562 2.0×	81 1.0×	152 2.9×	104 2.3×	27 0.7×	42	649
H. A. Sedgwick United States	11	453 1.6×	108 1.3×	57 1.1×	106 2.3×	85 2.1×	21	549
Mike Harris United Kingdom	11	289 1.0×	67 0.8×	11 0.2×	42 0.9×	59 1.4×	30	405
Daniel Linares Spain	12	430 1.5×	91 1.1×	40 0.8×	161 3.5×	37 0.9×	25	526
Irene Sperandio United Kingdom	14	615 2.2×	90 1.1×	50 0.9×	126 2.7×	27 0.7×	47	680
Jutta Billino Germany	12	400 1.4×	118 1.5×	45 0.8×	87 1.9×	23 0.6×	35	514
Gideon P. Caplovitz United States	15	547 1.9×	125 1.5×	15 0.3×	115 2.5×	83 2.0×	73	664
Rémy Allard Canada	11	328 1.2×	50 0.6×	21 0.4×	46 1.0×	31 0.8×	50	421
Loes van Dam Germany	13	618 2.2×	122 1.5×	23 0.4×	194 4.2×	41 1.0×	33	706
Anthony Stigliani United States	11	578 2.0×	67 0.8×	54 1.0×	91 2.0×	99 2.4×	16	643

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nobu Shirai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nobu Shirai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nobu Shirai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nobu Shirai. Nobu Shirai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Otsuka, Yumiko, et al.. (2025). The development of Mooney face perception in 6- to 11-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 253. 106199–106199.

Imura, Tomoko, et al.. (2024). Effects of cluster size on trypophobic discomfort in children aged 4–9 years. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 16528–16528.

Shirai, Nobu & Tomoko Imura. (2022). Developmental changes in gaze patterns in response to radial optic flow in toddlerhood and childhood. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 11566–11566. 1 indexed citations

Shirai, Nobu, et al.. (2020). Japanese toddlers prefer the scent of soy sauce to that of honey with a sweet drink. Food Quality and Preference. 86. 104024–104024. 2 indexed citations

Shirai, Nobu, et al.. (2018). Development of Asymmetric Vection for Radial Expansion or Contraction Motion: Comparison Between School-Age Children and Adults. i-Perception. 9(2). 980032743–980032743. 6 indexed citations

Shirai, Nobu & Tomoko Imura. (2016). Infant-specific gaze patterns in response to radial optic flow. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 34734–34734. 5 indexed citations

Shirai, Nobu, et al.. (2015). The development of gaze behaviors in response to biological motion displays. Infant Behavior and Development. 38. 97–106. 5 indexed citations

Shirai, Nobu & Tomoko Imura. (2014). Implied motion perception from a still image in infancy. Experimental Brain Research. 232(10). 3079–3087. 16 indexed citations

Masuda, Tomohiro, Atsushi Kimura, Nobu Shirai, et al.. (2013). Perception of Elasticity in the Kinetic Illusory Object with Phase Differences in Inducer Motion. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e78621–e78621. 14 indexed citations

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Sato, Kazuki, Tomohiro Masuda, Yuji Wada, et al.. (2013). Infants’ perception of curved illusory contour with motion. Infant Behavior and Development. 36(4). 557–563. 4 indexed citations

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Shirai, Nobu & Shigeru Ichihara. (2012). Reduction in sensitivity to radial optic-flow congruent with ego-motion. Vision Research. 62. 201–208. 7 indexed citations

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Shirai, Nobu & Shigeru Ichihara. (2010). Suppression of optic flow sensitivity during locomotion. Perception. 39. 97–97. 1 indexed citations

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Shirai, Nobu, Deirdre Birtles, John Wattam-Bell, et al.. (2009). Asymmetrical cortical processing of radial expansion / contraction in infants and adults. Developmental Science. 12(6). 946–955. 21 indexed citations

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Shirai, Nobu, Tomoko Imura, Yuko Hattori, et al.. (2009). Asymmetric perception of radial expansion/contraction in Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) infants. Experimental Brain Research. 202(2). 319–325. 2 indexed citations

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Wada, Yuji, Nobu Shirai, Yumiko Otsuka, et al.. (2008). Sound enhances detection of visual target during infancy: A study using illusory contours. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 102(3). 315–322. 3 indexed citations

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Imura, Tomoko, Masami K. Yamaguchi, So Kanazawa, et al.. (2005). Perception of motion trajectory of object from the moving cast shadow in infants. Vision Research. 46(5). 652–657. 31 indexed citations

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Shirai, Nobu, So Kanazawa, & Masami K. Yamaguchi. (2004). Sensitivity to linear-speed-gradient of radial expansion flow in infancy. Vision Research. 44(27). 3111–3118. 16 indexed citations

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Shirai, Nobu & Masami K. Yamaguchi. (2004). Asymmetry in the perception of motion-in-depth. Vision Research. 44(10). 1003–1011. 29 indexed citations

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Shirai, Nobu, So Kanazawa, & Masami K. Yamaguchi. (2004). Asymmetry for the perception of expansion/contraction in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development. 27(3). 315–322. 28 indexed citations

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Shirai, Nobu, et al.. (2003). Perception of motion transparency in infants. Perception. 32. 0–0. 1 indexed citations

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