Kitada Ryo

I am a cognitive neuroscientist who has been fascinated by many questions on mind and brain, such as how our mind and brain work, how they develop, and how they become atypical. I completed my Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Kyoto University, where I was supervised by Dr. Michikazu Matsumura. I was then a postdoctoral fellow and research associate under the supervision of Dr. Susan J. Lederman. I became an assistant professor at National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS) Japan in 2008. I was the PI of the Touch Lab at Nanyang Technological University Singapore between 2017 and 2022 and then launched the multisensory lab at Kobe University in 2021. I have been engaged in projects with many collaborators from different disciplines (e.g., economics, psychology, medicine, and engineering). My main focuses of research are (1) to understand the mechanisms underlying multisensory perception and social cognition and (2) how innate and postnatal experiences are interacted with each other to develop them. I have been employing both psychophysics and neuroimaging techniques (such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI) to address these questions.