Hiroto Kawarada

Profile Information

Affiliation

Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences Degree Programs in Comprehensive Human Sciences Doctoral Program in Neuroscience, University of Tsukuba

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R000083393

Research Interests

• Associative Learning
• Instrumental Conditioning
• Operant Conditioning
• Goal-directed Behaviour
• Habit
• Avoidance Behaviour
• Reinforcement Learning
• Computational Modelling

Research Areas

• Life sciences / Neuroscience - general /
• Humanities & social sciences / Experimental psychology /

Research History

• Apr, 2026 - Present

  Research Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• Oct, 2025 - Present

  Technical Trainee, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• Apr, 2025 - Present

  Part-time Lecturer, School of Psychology Department of Psychology, Meisei University

Awards

• Jan, 2026

  Senior Student Presenter Grant, The Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis

  Hiroto Kawarada
• Jun, 2025

  Repayment Exemption for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Full Exemption), Japan Student Services Organization

  Hiroto Kawarada
• Mar, 2025

  Excellent Master's Thesis, Waseda University Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences

  Hiroto Kawarada
• Mar, 2025

  Salutatorian of the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University

  Hiroto Kawarada
• Mar, 2023

  Excellent Presentation Award, Society for Tokyo Young Psychologists

  Hiroto Kawarada, Yutaka Kosaki

Papers

• Approaching background sounds extend the duration of foreground auditory stimuli

  Achille Pasqualotto, Hiroto Kawarada

  Scientific Reports, Jun 18, 2026 Peer-reviewed
• Effect of the reinforcement rate on goal-directed and habitual choices in a multiple schedule.

  Ting Hu, Shun Fujimaki, Hiroto Kawarada, Yutaka Kosaki

  Frontiers in psychology, 16 1601901-1601901, 2025 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

• <Psychology>Summary of Excellent Master's Theses: Reinforcement processes supporting habitual avoidance behaviour

  Hiroto Kawarada

  Bulletin of the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University, 71 135-138, Mar 15, 2026 Invited

Presentations

• Response Resurgence Following Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviour in Problem Drinkers

  Hiroto Kawarada Shun, Fujimaki Riria, Suzuki, Yukata Kosaki

  The 52nd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, May, 2026
• From negative to positive reinforcement in the control of habitual avoidance behaviour

  Hiroto Kawarada, Yutaka Kosaki

  The 85th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Animal Psychology, Oct, 2025
• Effect of revaluation of safety signal in the transition from goal-directed to habitual avoidance in rats

  Hiroto Kawarada, Yutaka Kosaki

  The 84th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Animal Psychology, Oct, 2024
• 強い罰による反応抑制効果の文脈依存性

  藤巻 峻, 川原田 弘人, 胡 婷, 神前 裕

  日本心理学会第88回大会, Sep, 2024
• A further look at resurgence of habitual behavior in rats

  Shun Fujimaki, Ting Hu, Hiroto Kawarada, Yutaka Kosaki

  The 33rd International Congress of Psychology, Jul, 2024
• Reinforcement rate as a determinant of habit formation

  Ting Hu, Shun Fujimaki, Hiroto Kawarada, Yutaka Kosaki

  The 33rd International Congress of Psychology, Jul, 2024
• Goal-directed and habitual control of instrumental avoidance in rats: Sensitivity to revaluation

  Hiroto Kawarada, Yutaka Kosaki

  The 33rd International Congress of Psychology, Jul, 2024

Teaching Experience

• Apr, 2025 - Present

  Practical Training of Psychological Experiments (Meisei University)
• Apr, 2025 - Present

  Psychological Experiments (Meisei University)

Professional Memberships

• Association for Behavior Analysis International
• The Japanese Society for Animal Psychology

Research Projects

• 習慣仮説に基づく強迫性障害の機序の解明:ドパミン作動薬によるモデルラットを用いて

  科学研究費助成事業, 特別研究員奨励費, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2026 - Mar, 2028

  川原田 弘人