| 2022 | CogSci | Walking munu and jumping bibi: Sound symbolism in (non)words produced by Turkish speakers. | Selin Topel, Junko Kanero, Noburo Saji, Tilbe Gksun |
| 2020 | CogSci | General mechanisms of color lexicon acquisition: Insights from comparison of German and Japanese speaking children. | Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Gerlind Grosse, Cornelia Schulze, Michiko Asano, Henrik Saalbach |
| 2018 | CogSci | Symbol grounding and system construction in the color lexicon. | Mutsumi Imai, Shohei Hidaka, Noburo Saji, Masato Ohba |
| 2015 | CogSci | How do children construct the color lexicon? : Restructuring the domain as a connected system. | Noburo Saji, Michiko Asano, Midori Oishi, Mutsumi Imai |
| 2013 | CogSci | Cross-Linguistically Shared and Language-Specific Sound Symbolism for Motion: An Exploratory Data Mining Approach. | Noburo Saji, Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita |
| 2012 | CogSci | Developmental Adjustment of Iconic Language in Care-Takers' Input. | Masato Ohba, Noburo Saji, Mutsumi Imai, Tomoko Matsui |
| 2012 | CogSci | The Internal Structures of Sound-Symbolic Systems: the Universal and Language-Specific Portions of Sound Symbolism. | Noburo Saji, Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita |
| 2011 | CogSci | Do words reveal concepts? | Barbara Malt, Eef Ameel, Silvia P. Gennari, Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Asifa Majid |