Tomohiro Ishizu

Last updated: Oct 16, 2019 at 23:46

Name	Tomohiro Ishizu
E-mail	t.ishizuucl.ac.uk
Affiliation	University College London
Section	Faculty of Life Sciences
Job title	Senior research associate
Degree	PhD
Other affiliation	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research funding number	50726669
ORCID ID	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7107-657X

Research Interests

Psychology of arts and aesthetics(1) , Colour perception(1) , face recognition(16) , NIRS(41) , MEG(41) , ERP(30) , fMRI(123) , Body recognition(2) , Visual system(16) , Neuroesthetics(1)

Research Areas

Psychology / Experimental psychology /
Neuroscience / Neuroscience in general /

Academic & Professional Experience

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Mar 2018

Today

Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Life Sciences, University College London

Dec 2016

Feb 2018

JSPS abroad research fellow, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna

Dec 2016

Feb 2018

Guest professor, Faculty of psychology, University of Vienna

Published Papers

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Parkinson's disease and changes in the appreciation of art: A comparison of aesthetic and formal evaluations of paintings between PD patients and healthy controls.

Lauring JO, Pelowski M, Specker E, Ishizu T, Haugbøl S, Hollunder B, Leder H, Stender J, Kupers R

Brain and cognition 136 103597 Sep 2019 [Refereed]

Why would Parkinson's disease lead to sudden changes in creativity, motivation, or style with visual art?: A review of case evidence and new neurobiological, contextual, and genetic hypotheses.

Lauring JO, Ishizu T, Kutlikova HH, Dörflinger F, Haugbøl S, Leder H, Kupers R, Pelowski M

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 100 129-165 Jan 2019 [Refereed]

Does priming negative emotions really contribute to more positive aesthetic judgments? A comparative study of emotion priming paradigms using emotional faces versus emotional scenes and multiple negative emotions with fEMG.

Gerger G, Pelowski M, Ishizu T

Emotion (Washington, D.C.) Nov 2018 [Refereed]

Sadness and beauty in art-Do they really coincide in the brain?: Comment on "An integrative review of the enjoyment of sadness associated with music" by Eerola et al.

Pelowski M, Ishizu T, Leder H

Physics of life reviews 25 124-127 Aug 2018 [Refereed]

Neuropsychopharmacological aesthetics: A theoretical consideration of pharmacological approaches to causative brain study in aesthetics and art.

Spee B, Ishizu T, Leder H, Mikuni J, Kawabata H, Pelowski M

Progress in brain research 237 343-372 2018 [Refereed]

Misc

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ヒトと動物の芸術心理学美の認知神経科学,神経美学のこれまで

石津智大

心理学ワールド (81) 17‐20 Apr 2018

DECODE OF THE BRAIN:ヒトの脳を読む新たなアプローチ脳で量る美

石津智大

細胞工学 34(7) 664-668 Jun 2015

脳活動からみる審美

石津智大

Vision 27(1) 7-9 Jan 2015

Books etc

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Bacon and the mind

Tomohiro Ishizu (Part:Joint Work, The visual shock of Francis Bacon)

Thames & Hudson Sep 2019 ISBN:9780500970973

The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics

Tomohiro Ishizu (Part:Contributor, Functional Neuroimaging in Empirical Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetics)

Oxford University Press Aug 2019

Projecting Pentagonism: the aesthetic of Gerard Caris

Tomohiro Ishizu (Part:Joint Work, The art of Gerard Caris and functions of the brain)

Sidney Cooper Gallery Dec 2018

Bildwelten des Wissens Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik, Bild - Ton - Rhythmus

Tomohiro Ishizu (Part:Contributor)

De Gruyter 2014

Handbook on Body Image: Gender Differences, Sociocultural Influences and Health Implications

Tomohiro Ishizu (Part:Contributor, Gender Difference Modulation in a Body-Selective Region in the Brain)

Nova publishers Feb 2013

Conference Activities & Talks

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The Science of Facial Attractiveness (symposium)

Tomohiro Ishizu

Asia-Pacific Conference of VIsion 24 Jul 2019

Beauty, valence, pleasure [Invited]

Tomohiro Ishizu

Goldsmiths University MSc PANC lecture Mar 2019

Beauty derived from sorrow

Tomohiro Ishizu

Sep 2018

Biological Beauty in the Brain [Invited]

Tomohiro Ishizu

Re-shaping bodies at Queen Mary University Sep 2018

Beyond Mere Beauty [Invited]

Tomohiro Ishizu

MPIEA Visual Neuroaesthetics Symposium at Max Planck Institute Frankfurt Apr 2018

Association Memberships

Italian society of neuroaesthetics(1) , International Association of Empirical Aesthetics(3) , Society for Neuroscience(1029) , JAPANESE SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGY(323) , THE JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION(1164)

Research Grants & Projects

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Social influences on aesthetic judgments and their neural basis

Leverhulme Trust: Research Project Grant

Project Year: Mar 2018 - Feb 2021 Investigator(s): Semir Zeki, Tomohiro Ishizu (co-PI)

Social Contribution

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DANA Foundation

[Others] 1 Mar 2018

OS-XX ～都市未来のオペレーション・システムへの序章～

[Panelist, Commentator, Lecturer] tishizu Oct 2015