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Shao Min Hung

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高等研究機構学際科学フロンティア研究所　新領域創成研究部学際展開研究分野　生命・環境研究領域

職名

助教

学位

Ｐｈ．Ｄ．（National University of Singapore）

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https://researchmap.jp/smhung

J-GLOBAL ID

202301016472078102

e-Rad 研究者番号

40979283

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8908-1497

経歴 5

2026年～継続中

東北大学　学際科学フロンティア研究所　助教
2023年～ 2026年

早稲田大学　高等研究所　講師
2022年～ 2023年

早稲田大学　理工学術院　講師
2018年～ 2022年

California Institute of Technology　Biology and Biological Engineering　James Boswell Postdoctoral Researcher
2010年～ 2012年

National Taiwan University　Department of Psychology　Research Assistant

学歴 2

Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School　Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders

2012年～ 2017年
National Taiwan University　Department of Psychology

2006年～ 2010年

所属学協会 6

日本視覚学会

2025年～継続中
The Japan Neuroscience Society

2023年～継続中
Consciousness Research Network

2017年～継続中
Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness

2015年～継続中
Vision Sciences Society

2014年～継続中
Society for Neuroscience

2016年～ 2018年

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研究キーワード 5

Unconscious processing
Aging
Language
Attention
Consciousness

研究分野 3

ライフサイエンス / 認知脳科学 /
人文・社会 / 実験心理学 /
人文・社会 / 認知科学 /

受賞 11

早稲田大学リサーチアワード

2025年　早稲田大学
GeroScience Outstanding Publication Award Honorable Mention: Outstanding Original Research Paper

2024年　The American Aging Association (AGE) and GeroScience
Young Scholar Oral Presentation Award

2021年　North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association
Divisional Postdoctoral Fellowship

2019年　California Institute of Technology
James Boswell Postdoctoral Fellowship

2018年　California Institute of Technology and Huntington Medical Research Institutes
ARVO/VSS Research Fellowship Award

2016年　The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences Society
8th HOPE Meeting with Nobel Laureates

2016年　Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Study Abroad Scholarship

2014年　Ministry of Education, Taiwan
Best Oral Presentation. 1st Runner-up

2014年　Duke-NUS Early Career Scientists Association
Lung-Shan Temple Scholarship (Academic Distinction)

2009年　Lung-Shan Temple
Presidential Award (top 5% students)

2009年　National Taiwan University

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論文 20

Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report 査読有り

Alicia Franco-Martínez, Ricardo Rey-Sáez, Jesús Adrián-Ventura, Pietro Amerio, Ana Baciero, Amine Bennis, Fredrik Bergström, Axel Cleeremans, Laura Contu, Roberto Dell'Acqua, Xinping Deng, Fatma Nur Dolu, Filippo Gambarota, Yi Gao, Francisco Garre-Frutos, Anna Grubert, Ana Hernando, José A Hinojosa, Asaf Hoory, ZhiKun Hou, Shao-Min Hung, Aine Ito, Mikel Jimenez, Alexandra I Kosachenko, Merve Kulaksız, Daryl Y H Lee, Elmas Merve Malas, Simone Malejka, Pedro R Montoro, Liad Mudrik, Yuri G Pavlov, Gabriele Pesimena, Antonio Prieto, Dobromir Rahnev, Lais Ringenberg, Alejandro Sandoval-Lentisco, Akira Sarodo, Maor Schreiber, Paola Sessa, Pablo Solana, Dmitrii A Tarasov, Miriam Tortajada, Kai Xue, Ziqian Xue, Yunxuan Zheng, Merve Çinici, David R Shanks, David Soto, Miguel A Vadillo

Neuroscience of Consciousness　2026　(1)　2026年1月17日
出版者・発行元： Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI： 10.1093/nc/niaf046 　

eISSN：2057-2107

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Abstract Although in recent years some studies have found evidence suggesting that working memory (WM) may operate on unconscious perceptual contents, decisive demonstrations of the existence of unconscious WM are lacking. In the present Registered Report, we replicate the first study on this topic by Soto et al. (Working memory without consciousness. Curr Biol 2011;21:R912–3.): a visual discrimination task asking participants to report the direction in which a subliminal Gabor grating was rotated after a 2-s delay. We acquired a multisite sample from 19 laboratories, with a larger number of participants (N = 531) and trials (720 in two sessions) than those typically used in previous studies. As a result, a large-sample, international, and open-access dataset is now available for researchers and future analyses. Furthermore, some minimal baseline requirements were guaranteed for the experimental task (i.e. number of valid trials, motivation, and consistent labels for the Perceptual Awareness Scale). The results showed (1) above-chance WM performance in cue-present trials reported as unseen (.55 accuracy), (2) a significant positive correlation between WM performance and cue detection sensitivity (r = .228), and (3) a significant above-chance intercept in the regression of performance on sensitivity (β0 = .521). These findings suggest that WM can operate on unconscious representations, although it remains positively associated with perceptual sensitivity. Crucially, because measurement error could compromise the interpretation of these three results, we provide evidence for our measures’ excellent reliability and, more fundamentally, for their validity.
Implicit and dynamic tracking of temporal probability

Akira Sarodo, Shao-Min Hung, Katsumi Watanabe

2025年9月16日

DOI： 10.31234/osf.io/c329z_v1 　
What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? 査読有り

Michał Klincewicz, Tony Cheng, Michael Schmitz, Miguel Ángel Sebastián, Joel S. Snyder, Derek H. Arnold, Mark G. Baxter, Tristan A. Bekinschtein, Yoshua Bengio, James W. Bisley, Jacob Browning, Dean Buonomano, David Carmel, Marisa Carrasco, Peter Carruthers, Olivia Carter, Dorita H. F. Chang, Ian Charest, Mouslim Cherkaoui, Axel Cleeremans, Michael A. Cohen, Philip R. Corlett, Kalina Christoff, Sam Cumming, Cody A. Cushing, Beatrice de Gelder, Felipe De Brigard, Daniel C. Dennett, Nadine Dijkstra, Adrien Doerig, Paul E. Dux, Stephen M. Fleming, Keith Frankish, Chris D. Frith, Sarah Garfinkel, Melvyn A. Goodale, Jacqueline Gottlieb, Jake R. Hanson, Ran R. Hassin, Michael H. Herzog, Cecilia Heyes, Po-Jang Hsieh, Shao-Min Hung, Robert Kentridge, Tomas Knapen, Nikos Konstantinou, Konrad Kording, Timo L. Kvamme, Sze Chai Kwok, Renzo C. Lanfranco, Hakwan Lau, Joseph LeDoux, Alan L. F. Lee, Camilo Libedinsky, Matthew D. Lieberman, Ying-Tung Lin, Ka-Yuet Liu, Maro G. Machizawa, Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Janet Metcalfe, Matthias Michel, Kenneth D. Miller, Partha P. Mitra, Dean Mobbs, Robert M. Mok, Jorge Morales, Myrto Mylopoulos, Brian Odegaard, Charles C.-F. Or, Adrian M. Owen, David Pereplyotchik, Franco Pestilli, Megan A. K. Peters, Ian Phillips, Rosanne L. Rademaker, Dobromir Rahnev, Geraint Rees, Dario L. Ringach, Adina Roskies, Daniela Schiller, Aaron Schurger, D. Samuel Schwarzkopf, Ryan B. Scott, Aaron R. Seitz, Joshua Shepherd, Juha Silvanto, Heleen A. Slagter, Barry C. Smith, Guillermo Solovey, David Soto, Hugo Spiers, Timo Stein, Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel, Frank Tong, Peter U. Tse, Jonas Vibell, Sebastian Watzl, Taylor Webb, Josh Weisberg, Thalia Wheatley, Michał Wierzchoń, Martijn E. Wokke, Karen Yan

Nature Neuroscience　2025年3月10日
出版者・発行元： Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI： 10.1038/s41593-025-01881-x 　

ISSN：1097-6256

eISSN：1546-1726
Decoding dynamic faces and scenes without awareness under dis-continuous flash suppression 査読有り

Yen-Ju Feng, Shao-Min Hung, Po-Jang Hsieh

Communications Biology　2025年1月31日

DOI： 10.1038/s42003-025-07563-5 　
Individual variability in neural representations of mind-wandering 査読有り

Aaron Kucyi, Nathan Anderson, Tiara Bounyarith, David Braun, Lotus Shareef-Trudeau, Isaac Treves, Rodrigo M. Braga, Po-Jang Hsieh, Shao-Min Hung

Network Neuroscience　8　(3)　808-836　2024年10月1日
出版者・発行元： MIT Press
DOI： 10.1162/netn_a_00387 　

eISSN：2472-1751

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Abstract Mind-wandering is a frequent, daily mental activity, experienced in unique ways in each person. Yet neuroimaging evidence relating mind-wandering to brain activity, for example in the default mode network (DMN), has relied on population- rather than individual-based inferences owing to limited within-person sampling. Here, three densely sampled individuals each reported hundreds of mind-wandering episodes while undergoing multi-session functional magnetic resonance imaging. We found reliable associations between mind-wandering and DMN activation when estimating brain networks within individuals using precision functional mapping. However, the timing of spontaneous DMN activity relative to subjective reports, and the networks beyond DMN that were activated and deactivated during mind-wandering, were distinct across individuals. Connectome-based predictive modeling further revealed idiosyncratic, whole-brain functional connectivity patterns that consistently predicted mind-wandering within individuals but did not fully generalize across individuals. Predictive models of mind-wandering and attention that were derived from larger-scale neuroimaging datasets largely failed when applied to densely sampled individuals, further highlighting the need for personalized models. Our work offers novel evidence for both conserved and variable neural representations of self-reported mind-wandering in different individuals. The previously unrecognized interindividual variations reported here underscore the broader scientific value and potential clinical utility of idiographic approaches to brain-experience associations.
Implicit semantics gates visual awareness 査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Daw-An Wu, Po-Jang Hsieh, Shinsuke Shimojo

Consciousness and Cognition　125　103771-103771　2024年10月
出版者・発行元： Elsevier BV
DOI： 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103771 　

ISSN：1053-8100
Practice makes imperfect: stronger implicit interference with practice in individuals at high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease 査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Sara W. Adams, Cathleen Molloy, Daw-An Wu, Shinsuke Shimojo, Xianghong Arakaki

GeroScience　2023年10月10日
出版者・発行元：
DOI： 10.1007/s11357-023-00953-9 　

eISSN：2509-2723
Extracting probability in the absence of visual awareness. 国際誌査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Daw-An Wu, Leslie Escobar, Po-Jang Hsieh, Shinsuke Shimojo

Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience　2023年1月26日

DOI： 10.3758/s13415-022-01057-1 　

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Extracting statistical regularities from the environment is crucial for survival. It allows us to learn cues for where and when future events will occur. Can we learn these associations even when the cues are not consciously perceived? Can these unconscious processes integrate information over long periods of time? We show that human visual system can track the probability of location contingency between an unconscious prime and a conscious target over a period of time of minutes. In a series of psychophysical experiments, we adopted an exogenous priming paradigm and manipulated the location contingency between a masked prime and a visible target (i.e., how likely the prime location predicted the target location). The prime's invisibility was verified both subjectively and objectively. Although the participants were unaware of both the existence of the prime and the prime-target contingency, our results showed that the probability of location contingency was tracked and manifested in the subsequent priming effect. When participants were first entrained into the fully predictive prime-target probability, they exhibited faster responses to the more predictive location. On the contrary, when no contingency existed between the prime and target initially, participants later showed faster responses to the less predictive location. These results were replicated in two more experiments with increased statistical power and a fine-grained delineation of prime awareness. Together, we report that the human visual system is capable of tracking unconscious probability over a period of time, demonstrating how implicit and uncertain regularity guides behavior.
Detecting spontaneous deception in the brain. 国際誌査読有り

Yen-Ju Feng, Shao-Min Hung, Po-Jang Hsieh

Human brain mapping　43　(10)　3257-3269　2022年7月

DOI： 10.1002/hbm.25849 　

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Deception detection can be of great value during the juristic investigation. Although the neural signatures of deception have been widely documented, most prior studies were biased by difficulty levels. That is, deceptive behavior typically required more effort, making deception detection possibly effort detection. Furthermore, no study has examined the generalizability across instructed and spontaneous responses and across participants. To explore these issues, we used a dual-task paradigm, where the difficulty level was balanced between truth-telling and lying, and the instructed and spontaneous truth-telling and lying were collected independently. Using Multivoxel pattern analysis, we were able to decode truth-telling versus lying with a balanced difficulty level. Results showed that the angular gyrus (AG), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), and postcentral gyrus could differentiate lying from truth-telling. Critically, linear classifiers trained to distinguish instructed truthful and deceptive responses could correctly differentiate spontaneous truthful and deceptive responses in AG and IFG with above-chance accuracy. In addition, with a leave-one-participant-out analysis, multivoxel neural patterns from AG could classify if the left-out participant was lying or not in a trial. These results indicate the commonality of neural responses subserved instructed and spontaneous deceptive behavior as well as the feasibility of cross-participant deception validation.
Alpha desynchronization during Stroop test unmasks cognitively healthy individuals with abnormal CSF Amyloid/Tau. 国際誌査読有り

Xianghong Arakaki, Shao-Min Hung, Roger Rochart, Alfred N Fonteh, Michael G Harrington

Neurobiology of aging　112　87-101　2022年4月

DOI： 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.11.009 　

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Synaptic dysfunctions precede cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease by decades, affect executive functions, and can be detected by quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG). We used quantitative electroencephalography combined with Stroop testing to identify changes of inhibitory controls in cognitively healthy individuals with an abnormal versus normal ratio of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid/total-tau. We studied two groups of participants (60-94 years) with either normal (CH-NAT or controls, n = 20) or abnormal (CH-PAT, n = 21) CSF amyloid/tau ratio. We compared: alpha event-related desynchronization (ERD), alpha spectral entropy (SE), and their relationships with estimated cognitive reserve. CH-PATs had more negative occipital alpha ERD, and higher frontal and occipital alpha SE during low load congruent trials, indicating hyperactivity. CH-PATs demonstrated fewer frontal SE changes with higher load, incongruent Stroop testing. Correlations of alpha ERD with estimated cognitive reserve were significant in CH-PATs but not in CH-NATs. These results suggested compensatory hyperactivity in CH-PATs compared to CH-NATs. We did not find differences in alpha ERD comparisons with individual CSF amyloid(A), p-tau(T), total-tau(N) biomarkers.
Mind wandering in sensory cortices 査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Po-Jang Hsieh

Neuroimage: Reports　2　(1)　100073-100073　2022年3月
出版者・発行元： Elsevier BV
DOI： 10.1016/j.ynirp.2021.100073 　

ISSN：2666-9560
Stronger implicit interference in cognitively healthy older participants with higher risk of Alzheimer's disease. 国際誌査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Daw-An Wu, Shinsuke Shimojo, Xianghong Arakaki

Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)　14　(1)　e12340　2022年

DOI： 10.1002/dad2.12340 　

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INTRODUCTION: Abnormal cerebrospinal fluid amyloid beta (Aβ)42 and tau levels have been revealed decades before symptoms onset in Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, the examination is usually invasive and inaccessible to most people. We thus aimed to develop a non-invasive behavioral test that targets early potential cognitive changes to gauge cognitive decline. Specifically, we hypothesized that older cognitive healthy participants would exhibit comparable performance when the task was explicit and relied on conscious cognition. However, when the task was implicit, the performance of participants at high and low risks for AD would bifurcate. That is, early changes in unconscious cognition could be linked to cognitive health. METHODS: We measured implicit interference elicited by an imperceptible distractor in cognitively healthy elderly participants with normal (low risk) and pathological (high risk) Aβ42/total tau ratio. Participants were required to perform a Stroop task (word-naming or color-naming on an ink-semantics inconsistent word) with a visually masked distractor presented prior to the target task. RESULTS: We found that, under a high-effort task (i.e., color-naming in the Stroop task), high-risk participants suffered interference when the imperceptible distractor and the subsequent target were incongruent in the responses they triggered. Their reaction times were slowed down by approximately 4%. This implicit interference was not found in the low-risk participants. DISCUSSION: These findings indicate that weakened inhibition of distracting implicit information can be a potential behavioral biomarker of early identification of AD pathology. Our study thus offers a new experimental paradigm to reveal early pathological aging by assessing how individuals respond to subperceptual threshold visual stimuli.
Task switching reveals abnormal brain-heart electrophysiological signatures in cognitively healthy individuals with abnormal CSF amyloid/tau, a pilot study. 国際誌査読有り

Rebecca Johnson Arechavala, Roger Rochart, Robert A Kloner, Anqi Liu, Daw-An Wu, Shao-Min Hung, Shinsuke Shimojo, Alfred N Fonteh, Michael T Kleinman, Michael G Harrington, Xianghong Arakaki

International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology　170　102-111　2021年12月

DOI： 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.10.007 　

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Electroencephalographic (EEG) alpha oscillations have been related to heart rate variability (HRV) and both change in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We explored if task switching reveals altered alpha power and HRV in cognitively healthy individuals with AD pathology in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and whether HRV improves the AD pathology classification by alpha power alone. We compared low and high alpha event-related desynchronization (ERD) and HRV parameters during task switch testing between two groups of cognitively healthy participants classified by CSF amyloid/tau ratio: normal (CH-NAT, n = 19) or pathological (CH-PAT, n = 27). For the task switching paradigm, participants were required to name the color or word for each colored word stimulus, with two sequential stimuli per trial. Trials include color (cC) or word (wW) repeats with low load repeating, and word (cW) or color switch (wC) for high load switching. HRV was assessed for RR interval, standard deviation of RR-intervals (SDNN) and root mean squared successive differences (RMSSD) in time domain, and low frequency (LF), high frequency (HF), and LF/HF ratio in frequency domain. Results showed that CH-PATs compared to CH-NATs presented: 1) increased (less negative) low alpha ERD during low load repeat trials and lower word switch cost (low alpha: p = 0.008, Cohen's d = -0.83, 95% confidence interval -1.44 to -0.22, and high alpha: p = 0.019, Cohen's d = -0.73, 95% confidence interval -1.34 to -0.13); 2) decreasing HRV from rest to task, suggesting hyper-activated sympatho-vagal responses. 3) CH-PATs classification by alpha ERD was improved by supplementing HRV signatures, supporting a potentially compromised brain-heart interoceptive regulation in CH-PATs. Further experiments are needed to validate these findings for clinical significance.
Subliminal temporal integration of linguistic information under discontinuous flash suppression. 国際誌査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Po-Jang Hsieh

Journal of vision　21　(5)　27-27　2021年5月3日

DOI： 10.1167/jov.21.5.27 　

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Whether unconscious complex visual information integration occurs over time remains largely unknown and highly controversial. Previous studies have tended to use a combination of strong masking or suppression and a weak stimulus signal (e.g., low luminance), resulting in a low signal-to-noise ratio during unconscious stimulus presentation. To lengthen the stimulus exposure, we introduced intermittent presentation into interocular suppression. This discontinuous suppression allowed us to insert a word during each suppression period and deliver multiple words over time unconsciously. We found that, after participants received the subliminal context, they responded faster to a syntactically incongruent target word in a lexical decision task. We later replicated the finding in a separate experiment where participants exhibited chance performance on locating the subliminal context. These results confirmed that the sentential context was both subjectively and objectively subliminal. Critically, the effect disappeared when the context was disrupted by presenting only partial sentences or sentences with a reversed word order. These control experiments showed that the effect was not merely driven by word-word association but instead required integration over multiple words in the correct order. These findings support the possibility of unconscious high-level, complex information integration.
Task-induced attention load guides and gates unconscious semantic interference. 国際誌査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Daw-An Wu, Shinsuke Shimojo

Nature communications　11　(1)　2088-2088　2020年4月29日

DOI： 10.1038/s41467-020-15439-x 　

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The tight relationship between attention and conscious perception has been extensively researched in the past decades. However, whether attentional modulation extended to unconscious processes remained largely unknown, particularly when it came to abstract and high-level processing. Here we use a double Stroop paradigm to demonstrate that attention load gates unconscious semantic processing. We find that word and color incongruencies between a subliminal prime and a supraliminal target cause slower responses to non-Stroop target words-but only if the task is to name the target word (low-load task), and not if the task is to name the target's color (high-load task). The task load hypothesis is confirmed by showing that the word-induced incongruence effect can be detected in the color-naming task, but only in the late, practiced trials. We further replicate this task-induced attentional modulation phenomenon in separate experiments with colorless words (word-only) and words with semantic relationship but no orthographic similarities (semantics-only).
Can a Word Sound Like a Shape Before You Have Seen It? Sound-Shape Mapping Prior to Conscious Awareness. 国際誌査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Suzy J Styles, Po-Jang Hsieh

Psychological science　28　(3)　263-275　2017年3月

DOI： 10.1177/0956797616677313 　

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Nonarbitrary mappings between sound and shape (i.e., the bouba-kiki effect) have been shown across different cultures and early in development; however, the level of processing at which this effect arises remains unclear. Here we show that the mapping occurs prior to conscious awareness of the visual stimuli. Under continuous flash suppression, congruent stimuli (e.g., "kiki" inside an angular shape) broke through to conscious awareness faster than incongruent stimuli. This was true even when we trained people to pair unfamiliar letters with auditory word forms, a result showing that the effect was driven by the phonology, not the visual features, of the letters. Furthermore, visibility thresholds of the shapes decreased when they were preceded by a congruent auditory word form in a masking paradigm. Taken together, our results suggest that sound-shape mapping can occur automatically prior to conscious awareness of visual shapes, and that sensory congruence facilitates conscious awareness of a stimulus being present.
Cerebral neural correlates of differential melanopic photic stimulation in humans. 国際誌査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Dan Milea, Annadata Venkata Rukmini, Raymond P Najjar, Joo Huang Tan, Françoise Viénot, Marie Dubail, Sharon Lee Choon Tow, Tin Aung, Joshua J Gooley, Po-Jang Hsieh

NeuroImage　146　763-769　2017年2月1日

DOI： 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.09.061 　

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Photic stimulation of rods, cones and intrinsically photosensitive melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) mediates non-visual light responses, including entrainment of circadian rhythms and pupillary light reflex. Unlike visual responses to photic stimulation, the cerebral correlates of non-visual light responses in humans remains elusive. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 14 healthy young participants, to localize cerebral regions which are differentially activated by metameric light that gave rise to different levels of melanopic excitation. Mean blood oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) responses disclosed bilateral activation of the frontal eye fields during exposure to light geared towards melanopsin. Furthermore, multivariate pattern analyses showed distinct bilateral pattern activity in the inferior temporal gyri and the caudate nuclei. Taken together, our findings suggest that melanopsin-based photoreception activates a cerebral network including frontal regions, classically involved in attention and ocular motor responses.
Unconscious processing of facial attractiveness: invisible attractive faces orient visual attention. 国際誌査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Chih-Hsuan Nieh, Po-Jang Hsieh

Scientific reports　6　37117-37117　2016年11月16日

DOI： 10.1038/srep37117 　

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Past research has proven human's extraordinary ability to extract information from a face in the blink of an eye, including its emotion, gaze direction, and attractiveness. However, it remains elusive whether facial attractiveness can be processed and influences our behaviors in the complete absence of conscious awareness. Here we demonstrate unconscious processing of facial attractiveness with three distinct approaches. In Experiment 1, the time taken for faces to break interocular suppression was measured. The results showed that attractive faces enjoyed the privilege of breaking suppression and reaching consciousness earlier. In Experiment 2, we further showed that attractive faces had lower visibility thresholds, again suggesting that facial attractiveness could be processed more easily to reach consciousness. Crucially, in Experiment 3, a significant decrease of accuracy on an orientation discrimination task subsequent to an invisible attractive face showed that attractive faces, albeit suppressed and invisible, still exerted an effect by orienting attention. Taken together, for the first time, we show that facial attractiveness can be processed in the complete absence of consciousness, and an unconscious attractive face is still capable of directing our attention.
Syntactic processing in the absence of awareness and semantics. 国際誌査読有り

Shao-Min Hung, Po-Jang Hsieh

Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance　41　(5)　1376-1384　2015年10月

DOI： 10.1037/xhp0000094 　

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The classical view that multistep rule-based operations require consciousness has recently been challenged by findings that both multiword semantic processing and multistep arithmetic equations can be processed unconsciously. It remains unclear, however, whether pure rule-based cognitive processes can occur unconsciously in the absence of semantics. Here, after presenting 2 words consciously, we suppressed the third with continuous flash suppression. First, we showed that the third word in the subject-verb-verb format (syntactically incongruent) broke suppression significantly faster than the third word in the subject-verb-object format (syntactically congruent). Crucially, the same effect was observed even with sentences composed of pseudowords (pseudo subject-verb-adjective vs. pseudo subject-verb-object) without any semantic information. This is the first study to show that syntactic congruency can be processed unconsciously in the complete absence of semantics. Our findings illustrate how abstract rule-based processing (e.g., syntactic categories) can occur in the absence of visual awareness, even when deprived of semantics.
The role of inferior frontal gyrus in processing Chinese classifiers. 国際誌査読有り

Tai-Li Chou, Shu-Hui Lee, Shao-Min Hung, Hsuan-Chih Chen

Neuropsychologia　50　(7)　1408-15　2012年6月

DOI： 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.025 　

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The Chinese classifier system classifies nouns and builds a relation between classifiers and their corresponding nouns. This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study examined brain activation of Chinese classifiers during reading comprehension. Thirty-four participants read and performed semantic congruency judgments on congruent, inside-classifier (IC) violated, and outside-classifier (OC) violated sentences. The IC and OC violations were created by changing the correct classifier to an inappropriate classifier and a non-classifier, respectively. The comparison of the IC violation vs. the congruent condition produced greater activation in the mid-ventral region (BA 45) of the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), suggesting an increased demand on semantic processing. Contrasting different subtypes of IC violation produced greater activation in the right IFG (BAs 45 and 47), indicating that processing mass/count classifiers involves distinct brain activations. The OC violation produced greater activation in the left IFG (BAs 45 and 44), suggesting both semantic and syntactic processing. These results indicate that different parts of the IFG contribute to syntactic and semantic processing of classifier phrases in reading Chinese for comprehension.

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Human Cognition and Hyper Intelligence

D. Frank Hsu, Mohammad Shehata, Shao-Min Hung, Shinsuke Shimojo, Ryota Kanai, Christina Schweikert, Michael W. David, Vincenzo Piuri, Jianhua Ma

2021 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech)　2021年10月
出版者・発行元： IEEE
DOI： 10.1109/dasc-picom-cbdcom-cyberscitech52372.2021.00127

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Forming a face ensemble with conscious and unconscious faces.

Hung, S. -M., Hsu, N. -T., Hsieh, P. -J.

日本視覚学会 2025年夏季大会　2025年9月
Unseen peripheral color information is preserved in behavior.

Jiang, J., Taniguchi, S., Hung, S. -M., & Watanabe, K.

Asia Pacific Conference on Vision　2025年6月
Implicit semantic effect of Japanese scripts on audiovisual rabbit illusions.

Taniguchi, S., Jiang, J., Hung, S. -M., Watanabe, K.

Asia Pacific Conference on Vision　2025年6月
Unconscious emotion ensemble perception.

Hsu, N. -T., Hung, S. -M., Hsieh, P. -J.

Asia Pacific Conference on Vision　2025年6月
Decoding faces under discontinuous flash suppression.

Hung, S. -M., Feng, Y. -J., Hsieh, P. -J.

Vision Sciences Society　2025年5月
Peripheral color information is preserved in behavior

Jiang J., Taniguchi, S., Hung, S. -M., Watanabe, K.

The Vision Society of Japan 2024 Summer Conference　2024年9月
Implicit Semantic Effect on Audio Visual Illusion Using Japanese.

Taniguchi, S., Jiang J., Hung, S. -M., Watanabe, K.

The Vision Society of Japan 2024 Summer Conference　2024年9月
Tracking probability in the absence of awareness.

Hung, S. -M, Liao, H. -I, Tseng, P, Hagura, N, Alais, D

Asia Pacific Conference on Vision　2024年7月
Stronger implicit interference in cognitively healthy older participants with higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the role of attention.

Hung, S. -M, Adams, S. W, Molloy, A, Wu, D. -A, Shimojo, S, Arakaki, X, Watanabe, K

Japan Neuroscience Society　2024年7月
Tracking probability implicitly: the inconsequential role of explicit knowledge.

Hung, S. -M, Sarodo, A, Watanabe, K

Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness　2024年7月
The implicit penalty effect: implicit cue validity regulates performance in an exogenous cueing paradigm.

Sarodo, A, Watanabe, K, Hung, S. -M

Vision Sciences Society　2024年5月
What we don’t see shapes what we see: peripheral word semantics gates visual awareness.

Hung, S. -M, Taniguchi, S, Sarodo, A, Watanabe, K

Vision Sciences Society　2024年5月
統計的規則性の潜在的な処理と顕在的な気づきの関係

佐良土晟, 渡邊克巳, Hung Shao-Min

日本視覚学会冬季大会　2024年1月
Attention gates unconscious processes, psychophysics, fMRI, and more evidence from aging science. 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

Consciousness Research Network　2023年8月
Task load modulates subliminal visual signals in the early visual cortex.

Hung, S. -M, Feng, Y. -J, Hsieh, P. -J, Watanabe, K

Japan Neuroscience Society　2023年8月
Semantics induces invisibility in an audiovisual illusion.

Hung, S. -M, Wu, D. -A, Hsieh, P. -J, Shimojo, S, Watanabe, K

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)　2023年6月
Practice makes imperfect: Positive correlation between practice and implicit distraction in asymptomatic individuals with Alzheimer’s disease pathology

Hung, S. -M, Wu, D. -A, Shimojo, S, Arakaki, X

Alzheimer’s Association International Conference　2022年8月
Tracking contingency unconsciously

Hung, S. -M, Wu, D. -A, Hsieh, P. -J, Shimojo, S

Vision Sciences Society　2022年5月
Probing the limits of unconscious processing 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

Tel-Aviv University　2021年7月
Tracking contingency unconsciously. Short talk at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Hung, S. -M, Wu, D. -A, Shimojo, S

Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness　2021年6月
Unconscious processing: single-unit and automatic? 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

National Tsing Hua University　2021年4月
Fundamental principles of unconscious processing 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

National Chiao Tung University　2020年11月
Implicit response incompatibility slowed down asymptomatic individuals with Alzheimer’s disease pathology

Hung, S. -M, Wu, D. -A, Harrington, M. G, Shimojo, S, Arakaki, X

Alzheimer’s Association International Conference　2020年7月
Heart rate variability changes during task shifting testing in pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease

Arechavala, R. J, Kloner, R, Hung, S. -M, Harrington, M. G, Arakaki, X, Kleinman, M. T

Alzheimer’s Association International Conference　2020年7月
Unconscious processing: from photoreceptors to language faculty 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

University of Nevada Reno　2019年10月
Language processing outside the realm of consciousness

Hung, S. -M

Asia Pacific Conference on Vision　2019年7月
The attentional requirements of unconscious processes

Hung, S. -M, Wu, D. -A, Shimojo, S

Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness　2019年7月
The role of color preference under interocular suppression

Zhai, A, Hung, S. -M, Shimojo, S

Vision Sciences Society　2019年5月
The automatic and non-automatic aspects of unconscious visual processing

Hung, S. -M, Wu, D. -A, Shimojo, S

Vision Sciences Society　2019年5月
Unconscious information integration 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

Tohoku University　2019年2月
Unconscious processing: from photoreceptors to language faculty 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

National Taiwan University　2018年10月
Dis-continuous flash suppression: A novel interocular suppression reveals temporal integration of subliminal linguistic information

Hung, S. -M, Hsieh, P. -J

Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness　2018年6月
Can we follow rules of unseen stimuli? 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

Huntington Medical Research Institutes　2018年5月
Dis-continuous flash suppression: A novel masking technique reveals temporal integration of subliminal linguistic information

Hung, S. -M, Hsieh, P. -J

Vision Sciences Society　2018年5月
Unconscious sound-shape mapping: A word can sound like a shape before you have seen it

Hung, S. -M, Styles, S, Hsieh, P. -J

Consciousness Research Network　2017年11月
Words Can Sound “Round” or “Sharp” Without Us Realizing It 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School　2017年8月
There is no hidden beauty: unconscious processing of facial attractiveness

Hung, S. -M

Asia Pacific Conference on Vision　2017年7月
Unconsciously attracted: invisible attractive faces orient visual attention

Hung, S. -M, Nieh, C. -H, Hsieh, P. -J

Vision Sciences Society　2017年5月
Unconscious information processing 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

California Institute of Technology　2016年11月
Mind wandering recruits sensory cortices

Hung, S. -M, Hsieh, P. -J

Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM)　2016年11月
Mind wandering in sensory cortices

Hung, S. -M, Hsieh, P. -J

Society for Neuroscience　2016年11月
Out of sight, not out of mind 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

Duke University　2016年5月
Brain mapping reveals potential functions of ipRGCs in modulating eye movements

Hung, S. -M, Milea, D, Viénot, F, Tan, J. H, Rukmini, D. V, Dubail, M., Tow, S. L. C, Aung, T, Gooley, J. J, Hsieh, P. -J

Vision Sciences Society　2016年5月
Can a word sound sharp before you have seen it? Sound- shape mapping prior to conscious awareness

Hsieh, P. -J, Hung, S. -M, Styles, S

Vision Sciences Society　2016年5月
To see or not to see, that is not the question 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

University of Tokyo　2016年3月
Unconscious information processing 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation　2016年3月
Unconscious information processing 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

National Taiwan University　2016年1月
Pre-conscious Automaticity of Sound-shape Mapping

Hung, S. -M, Styles, S, Hsieh, P. -J

International Symposium on Sound and Interactivity　2015年8月
Automaticity of Sound-shape Mapping

Hung, S. -M, Styles, S, Hsieh, P. -J

Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness　2015年7月
Unconscious syntactic processing in the absence of semantics 招待有り

Hung, S. -M

Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School　2014年5月
Unconscious Syntactic Processing in the Absence of Semantics

Hung, S. -M, Hsieh, P. -J

Vision Sciences Society　2014年5月

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共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題 2

Understanding conscious and unconscious learning of probabilistic information

提供機関：Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

制度名：Early-Career Scientists

2024年～ 2027年
Optimizing unconscious signals through attentional control

Hung, S. -M

提供機関：Templeton World Charity Foundation

研究機関：Waseda University

2022年～ 2023年

担当経験のある科目(授業) 6

心と意識
認知心理学
認知心理学
Consciousness seminar (Guest lecturer)　National Taiwan University
CNS 176: Cognition (Guest lecturer)　California Institute of Technology
CNS 186: Vision: From Computational Theory to Neuronal Mechanisms (TA)　California Institute of Technology

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Attention, Focus, and a High Risk of Alzheimer's

Caltech Office of Strategic Communications

2023年11月

メディア報道種別: 新聞・雑誌
Connecting the dots when we can’t see them: Unconscious learning of probability

Psychonomic Society Featured Content

2023年9月

メディア報道種別: 新聞・雑誌
A Behavioral Test to Detect Early Risk of Alzheimer’s

Caltech Office of Strategic Communications

2022年9月

メディア報道種別: 新聞・雑誌
Words Can Sound “Round” or “Sharp” Without Us Realizing It

Association for Psychological Science

2017年2月

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2024年～継続中

学術貢献活動種別: 審査・学術的助言
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2022年7月～継続中

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