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Graduate School of Education
The University of Tokyo

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Selected publications in English

Articles

Shimizu, D., Yomogida, I., Wang, S., & Okada, T. (2021). Exploring the potential of art workshop: An attempt to foster people’s creativity in an online environment. Creativity: Theories - Research -Applications, 8 (1), 89-107.
Shimizu, D., & Okada, T. (2021). Synchronization and Coordination of Art Performances in Highly Competitive Contexts: Battle Scenes of Expert Breakdancers. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:635534-635534. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635534
Sun, J., & Okada, T. (2021). The process of interactive role-making in acting training. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100860
Matsumoto, K., & Okada, T. (2021). Imagining how lines were drawn: The appreciation of calligraphy and the facilitative factor based on the viewer’s rating and heart rate. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, Article 654610. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.654610
Yokochi, S., & Okada, T. (2020). The process of art-making and creative expertise: An analysis of artists’ process modification. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 55(2) 532-545. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.472
Ishiguro, C. & Okada, T. (2020). How does art viewing inspire creativity? The Journal of Creative Behavior, 55(2) 489-500. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.469
Matsumoto, K., & Okada, T. (2019). Viewers recognize the process of creating artworks with admiration: Evidence from experimental manipulation of prior experience. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000285
Shimizu, D., & Okada, T. (2018). How Do Creative Experts Practice New Skills? Exploratory Practice in Breakdancers. Cognitive Science,42(7), 2364-2396. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12668
Okada, T. & Ishibashi, K. (2017). Imitation, Inspiration, and Creation: Cognitive Process of Creative Drawing by Copying Others’ Artworks. Cognitive Science, 41(7), 1804-1837. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12442 * This article has been introduced in Psychology Today’s blog [Psychology Today's blog page]

Ishiguro, C., Yokosawa, K., & Okada, T. (2016). Eye movements during art appreciation by students taking a photo creation course. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1074. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01074
Nomura, R., & Okada, T. (2016). Assessing the appeal power of narrative performance by using eyeblink synchronization among audience. Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology, 304-321. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0432-0.ch011
Nomura, R., Liang, Y., & Okada, T. (2015). Interactions among collective spectators facilitate eyeblink synchronization. PLoS one, 10(10), [e0140774]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140774
Nomura, R., Hino, K., Shimazu, M., Liang, Y., & Okada, T (2015). Emotionally excited eyeblink-rate variability predicts an experience of transportation into the narrative world. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 447. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00447
Okada, T., Yokochi, S., Ishibashi, K., & Ueda, K. (2009). Analogical modification in the creation of contemporary art. Cognitive Systems Research, 10, 189-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2008.09.007
Yokochi, S. & Okada, T. (2005). Creative cognitive process of art making:A field study of a traditional Chinese ink painter. Creativity Research Journal, 17, 241-255. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326934crj1702&3_9　[PDF Full paper (316KB)]
Schunn, C. D., Crowley, K., & Okada, T. (1998). The growth of multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science, 22, 107-130. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2201_4
Okada, T. & Simon, H. A. (1997). Collaborative discovery in a scientific domain. Cognitive Science, 21(2), 109-146. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2102_1
Okada, T. & Crowley, K. (1996). Capturing collaboration: An introduction to the special issue. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 3(4), 3-6.
Miwa, K. & Okada, T. (1996). Effective heuristics for hypothesis testing: An empirical discussion using computer simulation method. Japanese Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 11(6), 877-887.

+ 50 peer-previewed Japanese articles [Japanese article page]

Books and Chapters

K. Knutson, T. Okada, & K. Crowley (Eds.) (2020). Multidisciplinary approaches to art learning and creativity: Fostering artistic exploration in formal and informal settings. Routledge.
Okada, T., Agata, T., Ishiguro, C., & Nakano, Y. (2020). Art appreciation for inspiration and creation. In Knutson, T. Okada, & K. Crowley (Eds.) Multidisciplinary approaches to art learning and creativity: Fostering artistic exploration in formal and informal settings. 3-21, Routledge.
Shimizu, D., & Okada, T. (2020). Relaxation and Reorganization of “Internal Constraints” in Artistic Creation: Studies Focusing on the Embodiment of Ideas and Interaction with Others in Breakdance. In K. Knutson, T. Okada, & Crowley (Eds.) Multidisciplinary approaches to art learning and creativity: Fostering artistic exploration in formal and informal settings. 47-63, Routledge.
Ishiguro, C. & Okada, T. (2018). How can inspiration be encouraged in art learning? In T. Chemi, & X. Du (Eds.) Arts-based methods and organizational learning: Higher education around the world. 205-230. River publisher. Chapter9. [ PDF Full Paper (60.4MB) ]
Nakano, Y., Shimizu, D., & Okada, T. (2017). Designing a creative dance program for non-dance majors. In A. Manning, A, (ed.), Art and design education: Perspectives, challenges and opportunities, 71-102, Nova science publishers
Nomura, R. & Okada, T. (2016). Assessing the appeal power of narrative performance by using eyeblink synchronization among audience. In T. Ogata & Akimoto, T. (Eds.), Computational and Cognitive Approaches to Narratology, Edition: 1, IGI Global.
Schunn, C. D., Crowley, K., & Okada, T. (2005). Cognitive Science: Interdisciplinarity now and then. In S. J. Derry & M. A. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Problems and promises of interdisciplinary collaboration: Perspectives from cognitive science. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Schunn, D. C., Crowley, K., & Okada, T. (2002). What makes collaborations across a distance succeed? The case of the cognitive science community. In P. J. Hinds & S. Kiesler (Eds.), Distributed work (pp. 407-432). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
K. Crowley, C. D. Schunn, & T. Okada (Eds.) (2001). Designing for Science: Implications from everyday, classroom, and professional settings. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Okada, T. & Shimokido, T. (2001). The role of hypothesis formation in a community of psychology. In K. Crowley, C. D. Schunn, & T. Okada (Eds.), Designing for Science: Implications from everyday, classroom, and professional settings (pp. 445-464). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Conference Papers and Presentations

Shimizu, D., & Okada, T. (2021). Interaction between Action and Cognition in Creativity: Perception and Action-based Imagination (PAI) Framework, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, Virtual, Vienna, Austria, July, 2021.
Sun, J., & Okada, T. (2021). Emotion Expression Captured by Utterances in Acting and Underpinning Internal Changes in Actors, CogSci 2021, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, Virtual, Vienna, Austria, July, 2021.
Okada, T. (2020). The role of physical process in creativity. MIC (Marconi Institute for Creativity) Conference 2020, Bologna, Italy, Virtual, September 2020. Invited speech.
Shimizu, D., & Okada, T. (2020). The Interaction between Mind and Body in People’s Creativity: Explanation Focusing on Prediction Error, MIC (Marconi Institute for Creativity) Conference 2020, Bologna, Italy, Virtual, September 2020.
Sun, J., & Okada, T. (2020). An analysis of actors' internal changes through communication with their partners in acting training, MIC (Marconi Institute for Creativity) Conference 2020, Bologna, Italy, Virtual, September 2020.
Yokochi, S., & Okada, T. (2020). Exploration and reflection in emerging artists’ art making. MIC Conference 2020, MIC (Marconi Institute for Creativity) Conference 2020, Bologna, Italy, Virtual, September 2020.
Iwai, Y., & Okada, T. (2020). Facilitation of novel creation by revising others’ works. MIC Conference 2020, MIC (Marconi Institute for Creativity) Conference 2020, Bologna, Italy, Virtual, September 2020.
Okada, T. (2019). Inspiration and artistic creation. The 41th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada, July 25. Plenary talk.
Shimizu, D., Hirashima, M., & Okada, T. (2019). Interaction between idea-generation and idea-externalization processes in artistic creation: Study of an expert Breakdancer. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1041-1047). Montreal, Canada, July 24-27.
Matsumoto, K., & Okada, T. (2019). Relationship Between Creative Experience, Recognition of Creative Process and Aesthetic Impression in Art-Viewing. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society　(p. 2317). Montreal, Canada, July 24-27.
Yokochi, S., & Okada, T. (2019). The process of art-making: An analysis of artist’s modification of conditions in the art-making process. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.3172-3178). Montreal, Canada, July 24-27.
Takagi, K., Yokochi, S., & Okada, T. (2019). A case study of formation of an art concept by a contemporary artist: Analysis of the utilization of drawing in the early phase. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 3367). Montreal, Canada, July 24-27.
Ishiguro,C., & Okada, T. (2019). How Does Art Appreciation Promote Artistic Inspiration? In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 3367). Montreal, Canada, July 24-27.
Koto, M., Shimizu, D., and Okada, T. (2019). The Cognitive Process of Reinterpreting Non-art Objects in an Art Context. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society(p. 3367). Montreal, Canada, July 24-27.
Ishiguro, C. & Okada, T. (2018). How art appreciation inspires artistic inspiration? Creativity Conference, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, U.S.A.
Yokochi, S., & Okada, T. (2018). The processes of young artists’ art making: A qualitative analysis of their modification of conditions in the process of art making. Creativity Conference, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, U.S.A.
Takagi, K. , Okada, T., Yokochi, S. (2018). Formation of an art concept: How is the interaction of perception and action utilized by a contemporary artist in concept formation? Creativity Conference, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, U.S.A.
Nakano, Y., & Okada, T. (2018). Constructing design guidelines for creation-focused contemporary dance educational program for non-dance majors. Creativity Conference, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, U.S.A.
Wang, S., Takagi, K. , Okada, T. (2018). The Influence of Process Modification on Novices' Creativity in Drawing -with a focus on the preconceived perspective-. Creativity Conference, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, U.S.A.
Shimizu, D., & Okada, T. (2018). The Constraints Alteration Model for Creation in Performing Arts: The Case of Breakdancing. Creativity Conference, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, U.S.A.
Takagi,K., Yokochi, S., & Okada,T. (2018). Formation of an art concept: How is visual information from drawing utilized by an artist in concept formation? Creativity Conference, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, U.S.A.
Shimizu, D., & Okada, T. (2017). The Complicated Interaction between Expert Breakdancers: Dsitance as the Hidden Dimension.　Fourth International Workshop of Skill Science, Tokyo, Japan.
Eguchi, M. & Okada, T. (2010). Art-ethnography to Analyze the Role of Sketches in Car Designing. Short Presentation of The First International Conference on Design Creativity, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan.
Okada, T., Yokochi, S., Ishibashi, K., Namba, K., & Ueda, K. (2007). Analogical modification in the creation of contemporary art. In Schwering, A., Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K., & Gust, H., (Eds.) Analogies: Integrating multiple cognitive abilities. Publication series of the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Vol. 5. (The Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2007, Tutorial Workshop on Analogy)
Agata, T. & Okada, T. (2006). How does information about creative process affect audience appreciation of artwork? Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 949-954.
Ishibashi, K. & Okada, T. (2006). Exploring the effect of copying incomprehensible exemplars on creative drawings. Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1545-1550.
Ishibashi, K. & Okada, T. (2004). How copying artwork affects students' artistic creativity. Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Yokochi, S. & Okada, T. (2004). Cognitive processes of artistic creation: A field study of a traditional Chinese ink painter's drawing process. Proceedings of Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Okada, T. & Shimokido, T. (2000). Hypothesis-testing method in a community of psychologists. Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 835-840). Mahwah, NJ.: Erlbaum.