Akiyoshi's illusion books
Akiyoshi's illusion books
since June 21, 2004
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (supervisor) (2013) Science of illusions. Tokyo: Newton Press. ISBN978-4-315-51961-7
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (supervisor), Group Columbus (authors) (2013) Manapedia: the world of trompe l'oiel. Tokyo: Kodansha.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (supervisor), Group Columbus (authors) (2013) Trick Art Treasure Hunting. Tokyo: Akane-shobo.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (supervisor), Group Columbus (authors) (2012) Trick Art Haunted House. Tokyo: Akane-shobo.
Grand Study of Illusion (2012)
Magic of Vision (2011)
Kitaoka, A. (2011) Visual illusions. In Hakoda, Y., Tsuzuki, T., Kawabata, H., and Hagiwara, S. (Eds.), Cognitive Psychology, Tokyo: Yuhikaku, pp. 32-33.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (Ed.) (2011) Psychology of Perception. Kyoto: Minerva-shobo. 
new!
(a textbook for a course of Perception or Psychology of Perception)
Chapter 1. Constancy (by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Ritsumeikan University)
Chapter 2. Visual illusion (by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Ritsumeikan University)
Chapter 3. Color perception (by Ichiro Kuriki, Tohoku University)
Chapter 4. Lightness perception (by Hiroyuki Shinoda, Ritsumeikan University)
Chapter 5. Motion Perception (by Hiroshi Ashida, Kyoto University)
Chapter 6. Stereopsis (by Hiroyuki Ito, Kyushu University)
Chapter 7. Face perception (by Masami Yamaguchi, Chuo University)
Chapter 8. Eye movement (by Ikuya Murakami, University of Tokyo)
Chapter 9. Auditory perception (Makio Kashino, NTT Communication Science
Laboratories)
Chapter 10. Olfactory perception (by Saho Ayabe, University of Tsukuba)
Chapter 11. Multisensory interation (by Yuji Wada, National Food Research
Institute)
Chapter 12. Virtual reality (by Michiteru Kitazaki, Toyohashi University
of Technology)
Chapter 13. Perception of time and attention (by Makoto Ichikawa, Chiba
University)
Chapter 14. Perception in a baby (by So Kanazawa, Japan Women's University)
Chapter 15. Aesthetic perception (by Hideaki Kawabata, Keio University)
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (supervisor), Group Columbus (authors) (2011) Trick Art Quiz. Tokyo: Akane-shobo.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (supervisor), Group Columbus (authors) (2011) Trick Art Models. Tokyo: Akane-shobo.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (supervisor), Group Columbus (authors) (2011) Trick Art Book: Mysterious Images. Tokyo: Akane-shobo.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (supervisor), Group Columbus (authors) (2011) Trick Art Book: Trompe l'oeil. Tokyo: Akane-shobo.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Trick Eyes Graphics NEO Tokyo: Kanzen (August 2010) 
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Introduction to Visual Illusions Tokyo: Asakura-shoten (July 2010） 
new!
Japanese Union of Psychological Associations (Ed.) (2009) Shinrigaku kentei (Psychology examination): Basic key words. Tokyo: Jitsumukyoiku-shuppan (in Japanese) 
new!
Kitaoka wrote pp. 56-63.
Japanese Union of Psychological Associations (Ed.) (2009) Shinrigaku kentei (Psychology examination): Formal training book. Tokyo: Jitsumukyoiku-shuppan (in Japanese) 
new!
Kitaoka wrote pp. 100-113.
Koizumi, H. (Ed.) (2008) Brain Science & the Arts: Yearning, Healing, Mastering. Tokyo: Kosakusha (in Japanese) 
Kitaoka, A. (2008) Illusion art. Koizumi, H. (Ed.) Brain Science & the Arts: Yearning, Healing, Mastering. Tokyo: Kosakushapp. pp. 325-335.
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Trick Eyes Mechanism (published in July 2008) 
Koyasu, M. and Ninomiya, K. (Eds.) (2008) Keyword Collection: Frontier of Psychology. Tokyo: Shin-yo-sha (in Japanese). 
Kitaoka, A. (2008) Illusion design. in Koyasu, M. and Ninomiya, K. (Eds.),
Keyword Collection: Frontier of Psychology. Tokyo: Shin-yo-sha, pp. 2-5.
Kitaoka, A. (2008) Thatcher illusion. in Koyasu, M. and Ninomiya, K. (Eds.),
Keyword Collection: Frontier of Psychology. Tokyo: Shin-yo-sha, pp. 6-9.
Hikari Ota, Yuji Tanaka, and Akiyoshi Kitaoka (2008) Bakusho-mondai no Nippon no kyoyo. Konoyo wa subete sakkaku da. Chikaku
shinrigaku (Liberal arts of Japan by Bakusho-mondai. This world is all made up of
illusion! Psychology of perception) Tokyo: Kodansha. (published in May
2008) 
The cover includes the scintillating grid illusion (Schrauf et al., 1997),
while the backcover shows the contrast-dependent visual-delay illusion
(Kitaoka and Ashida, 2006).
Oyama, T., Imai, S., Wake, T., and Kikuchi, T. (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology of Sensation and Perception, New edition, Part 2. Tokyo: Seishinshobo (2007)
ISBN978-4-414-30504-3
Kitaoka, A. (2007) Visual illusions. In, Oyama, T., Imai, S., Wake, T., and Kikuchi, T. (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology of Sensation and Perception, New edition, Part 2. Tokyo: Seishinshobo, pp.198-228 (in Japanese).
Newton Press (Ed.), A. Kitaoka (Supervisor) (2007) Newton magazine book: Special issue "How is the brain deceived? Perfect demonstration of visual illusions" (published in October 2007) 
Keio Research Center for the Liberal Arts (Ed.) Seeing life III (Seimei o miru, miru, miru - Seimei no Kyoyogaku III) (published in August 2007) 
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Trick Eyes Brain 2 (published in August 2007) 
Kaoru Noguchi (Ed.) Psychology of Beauty and Kansei: New Horizons of Gestalt Perception (published in June 2007) 
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Trick Eyes Design (published in May 2007) 
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Deceived eyes: How to enjoy visual illusions (published in January 2007) 
Yuji Hakoda and Yoshiaki Nihei (Eds.) Psychology of Lie and Fooling (published in July 2006) 
Martinez-Conde, S., Macknik, S. L., Martinez, L. M., Alonso, J. -M., and
Tse, P. U. (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research. 154 Visual Perception Part
I Fundamentals of Vision: Low and Mid-Level Processes in Perception. Elsevier
(2006)
ISBN978-0-444-52966-4
Kitaoka, A., Gyoba, J., and Sakurai, K. (2006) Chapter 13 The visual phantom illusion: a perceptual product of surface completion depending on brightness and contrast. Progress in Brain Research, 154 (Visual Perception Part 1), 247-262. PubMedPBR PDF Reprint request to me
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Trick Eyes Brain (published in April 2006) 
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Trick Eyes, the English version (published in September 2005) 
(written in English)
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Trick Eyes Graphics (published in August 2005) 
(written in English and Japanese) (including 'Rotating snakes'!)
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Introduction to Psychology (published in March 2005) 
Takuo Goto and Hirayatsu Tanaka (Eds.) Handbook of the Science of Illusion (published in February 2005) 
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Trick Eyes, the Korean version (published in November 2003) 
(written in Korean)
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Trick Eyes 2 (published in June 2003) 
Akiyoshi Kitaoka Trick Eyes (published in December 2002) 
Dictionary of color. University of Tokyo Press (2003)
Kitaoka wrote: neon color spreading (p. 365), Hermann grid illusion (p. 369), Benary effect (p. 426)
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (superviser) Ugoku! Tsukureru! Magical Eye (Takarajima-sha) (published in November 2002)
"Cho-kankaku Museum" (1999)
pp. 62-63 PDF
Trick eyes 
