Rate My Professor Hiromasa Kotera

A prominent publication is his 2024 paper, "German infants' discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study," published in Infant Behavior & Development. This study reveals that sensitivity to the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast diminishes in German infants between 6 and 12 months of age, aligning with the perceptual narrowing hypothesis, with longitudinal data confirming individual consistency. Co-authors were Ghada Khattab, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, and Barbara Höhle. Kotera also contributed to "Towards diversifying early language development research: The first truly global international summer/winter school on language acquisition (/L+/) 2021," documenting an initiative to enhance global diversity in language acquisition research. Additionally, he co-authored works on mental well-being, including "Mental Health of Japanese Workers: Amotivation Mediates Self-Compassion on Mental Health Problems" (2022) and "Mental Health of Indonesian University Students: U.K. Comparison and Relationship Between Mental Health Shame and Self-Compassion" (2022). Currently, Kotera is a researcher at Kyoto University, responsible for research ethics, industry-academia collaboration, and media outreach. His prior academic training includes linguistics programs at the University of Kansas (2019), University of Bonn (2018-2020), and The University of Western Australia (2009). Before his PhD, he held positions in industry, such as production control at Nippon Oil Pump's German branch (2017-2018) and spare parts logistics at ABB Limited in Japan (2015-2016). Via IDEALAB, he is affiliated with Macquarie University in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences.