Ryusuke Kakigi
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Ryusuke Kakigi is a developmental cognitive scientist whose research explores how infants and adults perceive and interpret the physical world, with a particular focus on body movements and biological motion. His most cited work, "Infant and adult perceptions of possible and impossible body movements: An eye-tracking study" (2012, 35 citations), represents a significant contribution to understanding the early development of action perception. In this study, Kakigi used eye-tracking methodology to demonstrate that even infants show sensitivity to biomechanical constraints, looking longer at impossible body movements than possible ones, while adults show more sophisticated discrimination patterns. This research bridges developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, offering insights into how the human brain processes physical causality and biological motion from infancy. Kakigi's work has implications for understanding typical and atypical development, particularly in conditions affecting motor perception. His findings have been influential in shaping how researchers study the origins of action understanding and the development of body representation in early childhood.
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