Publications

Papers

  1. Nomura, R., Fujiwara, K. & Ikeguchi, T. (2022). Superposed recurrence plots for reconstructing a common input applied to neurons. Physical Review E,106:034205. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.034205
  2. Nomura, R. (2022). Influence of crowd size on home advantage in the Japanese football league. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 4:927774. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.927774
  3. Nomura, R. (2022). Benefit of questioning in university education: Cases of 2020 and 2021 online Cognitive Science of Theatre courses. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 29(2), 207-221. [in Japanese]
  4. Nomura, R., Otabe, T., & Maruno, S. (2021). Proposal of a mindset for cross-boundary dialogue. Waseda Journal of Human Sciences, 34, 85-92. [in Japanese]
  5. Nomura, R. (2021) A quantitative analysis of the apprenticeship network in Rakugo (Japanese story-telling performance): A genealogy of artistic inheritance. RIDEO: Japanese Journal of Laughter and Humor Research, 28, 5-15. [in Japanese]
  6. Otabe, T., Nomura, R., Ichinose, T. & Maruno, S. (2021). 越境的マインドセットの構成要素とその機能－M-GTAを用いた越境的学びと実践のインタビュー分析－ Kyushu Sangyo University Center for Fundamental Education Review, 11, 25-36. [in Japanese]
  7. Nomura, R., & Maruno, S. (2019). Rapid serial blinks: An index of temporally increased cognitive load. PLoS ONE, 14(12): e0225897.
  8. Nomura, R., & Hughes, Y. (2019). A measure of Impressions of Rakugo Performers: Creation of An Impression Rating Scale for Performers and the Influence of Audience Characteristics on Impression Rating Values. RIDEO: Japanese Journal of Laughter and Humor Research, 26, 29-40. [in Japanese]
  9. Nomura, R., Arihara,H. & Kozawa, M.(2019). Training Practices and Its Effects for Developing Arts-and-Crafts Teacher Skills in Elementary School.A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 51(1), 257-264. [in Japanese]
  10. Nomura, R., Liang, Y. Z., Morita, K., Fujiwara, K., & Ikeguchi, T. (2018). Threshold-varying integrate-and-fire model reproduces distributions of spontaneous blink intervals. PLoS ONE, 13(10): e0206528.
  11. Nomura, R., Arihara, H.Yageta, K. Kozawa, M. & Okada, T. (2018). Expertising of viewpoints on Children's Printmaking: A Comparison between Teachers of the Art Department at Teacher Training Colleges and University Students who Experienced Internship of Teaching Practice. A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 50(1), 273-280. [in Japanese]
  12. Nomura, R.& Maruno, S.(2017). Changing the Epistemic Beliefs of Undergraduates Through Inquiries in the Classroom. The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 65(1), 145-159. [in Japanese]
  13. Shimura, A., Hideo, S., Takaesu, Y., Nomura, R., Komada, Y., & Inoue, T. (2018). Comprehensive assessment of the impact of life habits on sleep disturbance, chronotype, and daytime sleepiness among high-school students. Sleep Medicine, 44, 12-18.
  14. Nomura, R., Liang, Y., & Okada, T. (2015). Interactions among collective spectators facilitate eyeblink synchronization. PLoS ONE, 10(10):e0140774.
  15. 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. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00447
  16. Nomura, R. & Okada, T.(2014). Synchronization of Spontaneous Eyeblinks during Story-Telling Performance. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 21(2), 226-244. [in Japanese]
  17. Nomura, R. & Maruno, S.(2012). Critique of Critical Thinking from the Viewpoint of Personal Epistemology. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 19(1), 9-21. [in Japanese]
  18. Nomura, R., & Maruno, S. (2011). Constructing a coactivation model for explaining humor elicitation. Psychology, 2(5), 477-485.
  19. Nomura, R. & Maruno, S.(2011). A Multiple Time-Scale Model for Personal Epistemology: A Proposal. The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 59(2), 244-256. [in Japanese]
  20. Nomura, R. (2010) "This Comedian is Recommended for You": Construction of A Comedian (Geinin in Japanese) Evaluation and Locating Scale (GELOS) and Testing Its Reliability and Validity. Science of Laughter, 2, 57-62. [in Japanese]
  21. Nomura, R. Onoue, T. & Maruno, S. (2010) Constructing A Version of J-GELOPH<6> Scale for Elementary School Students: Evaluation of Reliability and Validity. RIDEO: Japanese Journal of Laughter and Humor Research, 17, 26-34. [in Japanese]
  22. Nomura, R. & Maruno, S.(2009). The Core Concepts That Appear as Centrality in Narratives of Proficient Rakugo Storytellers: Creating Performer's Belief Maps by Co-occurrence Network Mapping. RIDEO: Japanese Journal of Laughter and Humor Research, 16, 12-23. [in Japanese]
  23. Nomura, R. & Maruno, S.(2008). Why "Incongruity-Resolution" is More Funny than Simple "Incongruity". RIDEO: Japanese Journal of Laughter and Humor Research, 15, 45-55. [in Japanese]
  24. Nomura, R. & Maruno, S.(2008). An integration of humor generation theories and a proposal of Dynamical Comprehension and Elaboration Theory. Japanese Psychological Review, 51(4), 500-525. [in Japanese]
  25. Nomura, R. & Maruno, S.(2007). Modeling of a Humor Elicitation Process in Vaudeville Settings. Cognitive Studies:Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 15(1), 188-201. [in Japanese]
  26. Nomura, R. & Maruno, S.(2007). Exploring a Relational System between a Performer and Auience in Vaudeville Humor Elicitation Process. Cognitive Studies:Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 14(4), 494-508. [in Japanese]
  27. Nomura, R. & Maruno, S.(2006). The Effect of the Narrative Strategies Used by Storytelling Performers on the Enjoyment of Rakugo. RIDEO: Japanese Journal of Laughter and Humor Research, 13, 13-23. [in Japanese]

Books

  1. Nomura, R. (2021.2). Proxemics in Theatre: The Law of Distance that Governs Live Performances. dZERO. [in Japanese]
  2. Nomura, R. (2020.7). Soft Intelligence: The Mystery of Rakugo Challenged by Cognitive Science. dZERO. [in Japanese]
  3. Nomura, R. (2020.4). Cognitive Science of Scribbling. In M. Kozawa (Ed）"An Encouragement of Scribbling" Airi Shobo. [in Japanese]
  4. Nomura, R. (2019.6). Lessons on Programing Thinking. Shueisha. [in Japanese]
  5. Nomura, R. (2017.6). Read rakugo performance with using cognitive science In Filmart Inc.(Ed.), "The Entrance to Rakugo: Communication Between Imagination and Creativity,"(pp.118-125) [in Japanese]
  6. Nomura, R. & Koharu Tatekawa (2017.3). "The Secrets of Speaking Learned from Rakugo: For self-introducing, Public Speeches, & The Presentations!" NHK Publishing Group. [in Japanese]
  7. Nomura, R. & Okada, T. (2016.7). Assessing the Appeal Power of Narrative Performance by Using Eyeblink Synchronization among Audience.In T. Ogata & T. Akimoto (Eds.) "Computational and Cognitive approaches to Narratology," Chapter 11 (pp. 304-321).
  8. Nomura, R. (2016.6). "The Secrets of How to Talk that People with Poor Speech Skills Don't Know: Improve Your "Public Speaking Skills" with Cognitive Science" Shueisha [in Japanese]
  9. Nomura, R., Amemiya, T. & Maruno, S. [Translation Supervisers] (2011.9). "A Handbook on Psychology of Humor," Kitaohji Shobo. [in Japanese]

Invited Speech

  1. Nomura, R. (2022.12). New perspectives on theater research brought by reconstruction of common inputs. Sensing and Interaction Technology Subcommittee, JEITA.
  2. Nomura, R. (2022.8). The power of music that moves listener's heart—literally. Tutorial Lectures in Nonlinear Problem Workshop
  3. Nomura, R. (2021.3). Recurrence-based reconstruction of performer's input with using audience's blink responses. Online liveness symposium: Conceptualising, practicing, and measuring liveness. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
  4. Nomura, R. (2020.12). Toward to establish a new research area 'Science of Live Performances' IEICE, DE. Online.
  5. Nomura, R. (2016.9). Exploring Osaka's Laughter Boke-and-Tsukkomi, The 25th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Personality Psychology, Kansai University.
  6. Nomura, R. (2014.12). Measuring and Observing Rakugo's "Ma: Meaningful intervals" by focusing on blink synchronization among audience members, JSCS Winter Symposium "Methodology of Creativity Research," The University of Tokyo.
  7. Nomura, R. (2007.6). Dynamical Comprehension and Elaboration Theory in vaudeville settings. 19th International ISHS Humor Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.

International Conferences

  1. Nomura, R. (2021.7). A teacher—student bias in para-language use. The 32nd International Convention of Psychology (ICP2020+), Prague, Czech Republic.
  2. Nomura, R. (2019.3). Propagation and synchronization of contagious laughter in theater. 2019 International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS2019), Paris, France.
  3. Nomura, R. & Ikeguchi, T. (2016.11). Modeling of human spontaneous eyeblinks.2016 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA 2016), Yugawara, Japan.
  4. Nomura, R. (2016.7). Applying Epistemology of Ecological Agents to Instructional Design and Practices. 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.
  5. Nomura, R. (2016.3). Elasticity of College Students’ Beliefs about Knowledge Utility. 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.
  6. Nomura, R. (2013.11). Visualizing collective-continuous measurement of emotion. Activating Inspiration and Creativity: International Symposium for Informal Learning in Art, Science, and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
  7. Nomura, R. (2013.9). Listening to the ensemble of story-telling performance and audience reactions. The 3rd International Conference on Human and Social Science, Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome, Italy.
  8. Nomura, R. & Okada, T. (2013.8). Temporal coordination patterns of performer and audience in vaudeville settings. The 35 the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
  9. Nomura, R. (2012.12). The Rakugo-learning environment: An alternative epistemology. The Macrotheme Conference on Education and Training 2012. Espace Vocation Paris Haussaman Saint-Lazare, Paris, France.
  10. Nomura, R. (2012.8). Clarifying position derived from sophisticated beliefs about the nature of knowledge-to-use. CogSci2012: 34th Annual Cognitive Science Conference. Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan.
  11. Nomura, R. (2012.8). Epistemic beliefs about Knowledge-to-Use and Satisfaction toward classes. In the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS2010),451–452. Beijing, China.
  12. Nomura, R., Onoue, T., & Maruno, S. (2010.6). The influence of little J-GELOPH and empathy on pro-social behaviors.In the Proceedings of the 22nd International ISHS Humor Conference. Hong Kong.
  13. Nomura, R. (2008.7). Constructing and testing humor elicitation models. International Congress of Psychology. In International Journal of Psychology, 43(3/4), 327. Berlin, Germany.
  14. Nomura, R. (2008.6). Dynamical elaboration riding on ripples of funniness. LIBM: First International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement, 28–33. Asahikawa, Hokkaido,Japan.
  15. Nomura, R. & Maruno, S. (2007.7). Time for elaboration process: Ride on a ripple of funniness. Proceedings of the 19th International ISHS Humor Conference, 62. Newport, Rhode Island, USA.

Domestic Conference (Representative Work Only）

  1. Mori, M., Kimura, M, & Nomura, R. (2022.9).Onsite and online audience size effects differ: An examination ofspontaneous blink rates while watching narrative advertisements. In The proceedings of the 39th conference of Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 29-35. O2-002A.
  2. Nomura, R. & Ikeguchi, T.(2019.3). Reconstruction of a common input using superposed recurrence plots, The 2019 IEICE General Conference, Waseda University.
  3. Nomura, Morita, K. & Maruno,T.(2018.8). Estimations of Learner’s Understanding using time-series information of eye blinks, The 35th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Cognitive Science, Ritsumeikan University.
  4. Nomura, R. & Ikeguchi, T. (2017.9). Nonlinear timeseries analysis of Rakugo "Shinigami" performed by SANYUHTEI, Ensho VI, The 2017 IEICE NOLTA Society Conference, Chukyo University.
  5. Shimazu, M. & Nomura, R. (2015.3).An automatic measurement system of eye-blink synchronization among audience members while watching videos. Interaction2015, Tokyo International Exchange Center.
  6. Nomura, R. & Okada, T. (2014.9). Experience of appreciation facilitates eyeblink synchron ization among audience during story-telling performance, The 78th Annual Convention of Japanese Psychological Association, Doshisha University.