Shoji Itakura

6.6k total citations
200 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Shoji Itakura is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Shoji Itakura has authored 200 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 112 papers in Social Psychology and 87 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Shoji Itakura's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (126 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (45 papers) and Social Robot Interaction and HRI (38 papers). Shoji Itakura is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (126 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (45 papers) and Social Robot Interaction and HRI (38 papers). Shoji Itakura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Shoji Itakura's co-authors include Hiroshi Ishiguro, Yasuhiro Kanakogi, Mako Okanda, Kang Lee, Yusuke Moriguchi, Takayuki Kanda, Takashi Minato, Masayuki Tanaka, Michihiro Shimada and Yuko Okumura and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Shoji Itakura

186 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shoji Itakura Japan 35 2.3k 2.0k 1.8k 625 392 200 4.1k
Henrike Moll United States 19 2.0k 0.8× 2.6k 1.3× 1.4k 0.8× 838 1.3× 202 0.5× 52 4.4k
Kim A. Bard United States 40 3.8k 1.6× 2.8k 1.4× 1.4k 0.8× 777 1.2× 757 1.9× 114 5.4k
Tanya Behne Germany 20 2.0k 0.9× 2.6k 1.3× 1.3k 0.7× 725 1.2× 246 0.6× 39 4.3k
Philippe Rochat United States 47 2.7k 1.1× 3.3k 1.7× 2.4k 1.3× 781 1.2× 132 0.3× 124 6.0k
Claes von Hofsten Sweden 43 1.9k 0.8× 3.4k 1.7× 3.2k 1.8× 524 0.8× 166 0.4× 99 5.8k
Dare A. Baldwin United States 36 1.9k 0.8× 5.1k 2.6× 2.3k 1.3× 1.0k 1.6× 179 0.5× 76 7.1k
George Butterworth United Kingdom 38 1.9k 0.8× 4.1k 2.1× 2.5k 1.4× 957 1.5× 314 0.8× 94 6.4k
Bennett I. Bertenthal United States 40 2.0k 0.9× 2.4k 1.2× 2.5k 1.4× 737 1.2× 72 0.2× 118 5.1k
Maggie Moore United States 20 2.6k 1.1× 3.0k 1.6× 2.1k 1.1× 1.0k 1.6× 77 0.2× 43 5.4k
Jacqueline Nadel France 29 1.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 2.2k 1.2× 301 0.5× 110 0.3× 115 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Shoji Itakura

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shoji Itakura

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shoji Itakura

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shoji Itakura. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shoji Itakura 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 Shoji Itakura. Shoji Itakura is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Meristo, Marek, et al.. (2025). Cultural Differences in Visual Attention Emerge in Infancy. Infancy. 30(1). e12651–e12651.
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Bohn, Manuel, Joscha Kärtner, Shoji Itakura, et al.. (2024). Mealtime conversations between parents and their 2-year-old children in five cultural contexts.. Developmental Psychology. 60(7). 1255–1268. 1 indexed citations
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Yamaguchi, Masanori, et al.. (2023). Exploring role of sleep aids in sleep problems in preschool children. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6612–6612. 1 indexed citations
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Sato, Atsushi, et al.. (2023). Empathic embarrassment towards non-human agents in virtual environments. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 13914–13914. 1 indexed citations
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Itakura, Shoji, et al.. (2023). Visual attention across cultures: Similarities and differences in child development and maternal attention styles. Developmental Science. 27(5). e13368–e13368. 6 indexed citations
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Kato, Masaharu, et al.. (2023). Cross-cultural differences in visual object and background processing in the infant brain. Imaging Neuroscience. 1. 5 indexed citations
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Itakura, Shoji, et al.. (2022). Cultural Similarities and Differences in Explaining Others’ Behavior in 4- to 9-Year-Old Children From Three Cultural Contexts. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 53(6). 659–682. 6 indexed citations
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Kim, Sunae, Atsushi Senju, Beate Sodian, et al.. (2021). Memory Monitoring and Control in Japanese and German Preschoolers. Memory & Cognition. 51(3). 708–717. 4 indexed citations
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Kitazaki, Michiteru, et al.. (2021). Great apes’ understanding of biomechanics: eye-tracking experiments using three-dimensional computer-generated animations. Primates. 62(5). 735–747. 2 indexed citations
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Ishii, Tatsunori, et al.. (2021). Source memory and social exchange in young children. Cognitive Processing. 22(3). 529–537. 1 indexed citations
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Ishikawa, Mitsuhiko, et al.. (2020). Culture modulates face scanning during dyadic social interactions. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 1958–1958. 31 indexed citations
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Okumura, Yuko, et al.. (2014). Twelve-month-old infants show social preferences for native-dialect speakers. The Japanese journal of psychology. 85(3). 248–256. 5 indexed citations
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Itakura, Shoji. (2013). Developmental Cybernetics^|^mdash;Understanding of Agents in Infancy. Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan. 31(9). 836–839. 1 indexed citations
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Inoue, Yasuyuki, et al.. (2011). Emotional Incongruence of Facial Expression and Voice Tone Investigated with Event-Related Brain Potentials of Infants. i-Perception. 2(8). 954–954. 3 indexed citations
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Katayama, Jun’ichi, et al.. (2010). Young Children’s Folk Knowledge of Robots. Asian Culture and History. 2(2). 12 indexed citations
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Cowley, Stephen J., Hiroshi Ishiguro, Shoji Itakura, et al.. (2005). Assessing Human Likeness by Eye Contact in an Android Testbed. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 27(27). 44–6. 66 indexed citations
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Ishibashi, Hidetoshi, et al.. (2002). Bidirectional communication between a Japanese monkey and a human through eye gaze and pointing.. 21(1). 3–32. 17 indexed citations
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Berthouze, Luc & Shoji Itakura. (1997). Possibility of Self-Recognizing Robots: From the Perspective of Research on Nonhuman Primates. 4(3). 120–127. 3 indexed citations
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Itakura, Shoji & James R. Anderson. (1996). Learning to use experimenter-given cues during an object-choice task by a capuchin monkey.. 15(1). 103–112. 66 indexed citations
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Itakura, Shoji, et al.. (1992). Autoshaping in Japanese Monkeys (Macaca Fuscata). 30(30). 131–137. 1 indexed citations

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