Osaka University, Graduate School of Frontiers Bioscience, Dynamic Brain Network Laboratory

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2024.11.23
Xinyu, a second-year doctoral student, has been honored with the Young Investigator Award at the 116th Kinki Physiology Meeting. Congratulations!
2024.10.30
Our first paper using vision transformer as a model of human attention has been posted on arXiv . We found that DINO, non-supervised learning, fosters three distinct groups of attention heads: one closely resembling human attention, another focused on figures, and a third on the background. DINO-trained ViTs offer insight into how human overt attention and figure-ground separation develop in visual perception.
2024.10.15
A new paper by Uchimura, Kumano, and Kitazawa, has been published in J Neurosci. . We discovered that a region in the brain called the precuneus uses a coordinate system anchored to the external world. This finding sheds light on how the brain processes visual information to create a consistent perception of our surroundings, even during eye movements.
2023.12.01
Motoaki (Uchimura) has returned from Princeton University and has been appointed as an assistant professor.
2023.11.29
Reiji Tanaka (Ph.D. candidate) and Associate Professor Kei Watanabe's new paper has been published online in NeuroImage . They developed a "cap" that softly holds the monkey’s head during non-invasive functional brain imaging.
2023.11.20
A new paper by Associate Professor Watanabe has been published in PNAS .It clarifies the dynamic process of working memory in prefrontal cortex, using neural activity data and simulations.
2023.08.19
A new paper by Associate Professor Kei Watanabe has been published inNature Communications. It elucidates the mechanism of the prefrontal cortex in efficiently handling multitasking.
2023.07.03
Kei Watanabe has been promoted to the position of Associate Professor. Congratulations!
2023.05.19
Our study on the role of error signals in motor cortices Inoue et al 2016 has been cited in the Kandel textbook (6th edition) with a figure on page 856.
2023.04.20
A new paper has appeared in Royal Society Open Science. Nao (Hanyu) has shown that our ability to discriminate the direction of time’s arrow is limited but greatly enhanced in special occasions such as forward motion, free fall, and diffusion.
2023.04.03
Tamami has moved to Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet) as a Professor. Congratulations! Here is the homepage for the new lab.
2022.10.14
2022.9.21 A new paper by Asakage and Nakano entitled “The salience network is activated during self-recognition from both first-person and third-person perspectives ” has been published in Human Brain Mapping. .
2022.07.14
A new paper has been published in Cerebral Cortex .　Ali, Takahashi and Kitazawa showed that the brain network jumps from an idling communication mode (5-10 Hz) to a boost communication mode (12-18 Hz) when we try to judge the temporal order of tactile stimuli with our arms crossed.
2022.07.12
A new paper by Nakano and Yamamoto entitled “You trust a face like yours” has been published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications .
2021.12.17
A new paper by Nakano and Marumo entitled “Early phase of pupil dilation is mediated by the peripheral parasympathetic pathway” has been published in Journal of Neurophysiology.
2021.07.31
Yoshiaki was awarded Junior Investigator Poster Award at the 44th Annual Meeting, Japan Society for Neuroscience. Congratulations!
2021.06.12
Our paper (Ichiki, A, and Nakano T) was published in International Journal of Psychophysiology.
2021.04.05
Our paper (Moharramipour, A, and Kitazawa S) was published in Cerebral Cortex Communications.
2021.03.25
Our paper (Ota C, and Nakano T) was accepted in Cerebral Cortex.
2021.01.18
Our paper (Ota C, and Nakano T) was published in Social Neuroscience.
2020.11.05
A new functional imaging study has appeared in Cerebral Cortex. The study shows that the Now is represented in the precuneus that occupies the center of the entire cerebral cortex.
2020.07.29
The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society has begun. Prof. Kitazawa serves as the President.
2020.04.28
Dr. Kitazawa's book will be released on May 15. If you read it, you will definitely want to study the brain. Those who want to study at the graduate school should take the entrance exam of The Graduate School of Biosciences or Graduate School of Medicine.
2020.03.25
Nao Hanyu was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the Graduate School of FBS, Osaka University, and selected as a graduate representative of the FBS master's course.
2020.02.02
2019.11.13
Tamami Nakano(Associate Prof) appeared on TV "NHK(Shiten・Ronten)" . .
2019.02.14
Tamami Nakano(Associate Prof)'s eyeblinks study has been published in "Mainichi newspaper" .
2019.02.03
Takuto (Yamamoto) was awarded a poster prize in a meeting for a joint research project "Chronogenesis" . .
2018.09.23
Prof. Kitazawa was awarded the 27th Nakayama Award from Nakayama Foundation for Human Science. .
2018.07.27
A new 5-year joint research project "Chronogenesis" has been launched. Professor Kitazawa serves as the project leader .
2018.07.23
A new study by Inoue and Kitazawa was introduced in a dispatch article in Current Biology by Professor Reza Shadmehr .
2018.07.05
A new study by Dr. Masato Inoue and Professor Kitazawa has appeared in Current Biology. Inoue and Kitazawa found that motor error in parietal area 5 drives adaptation to compensate for the motor error, whereas target error in area 7 drives adaptation to compensate for the target error.A brief explanation can be found here .
2017.12.12
A deep learning study on ASCII art by Osamu (Akiyama) has been reported in a multi-platform news media Motherboard .
2017.10.28
A new paper by Nakano entitled "Transient heart rate acceleration in association with spontaneous eyeblinks" has appeared in International Journal of Psychophysiology .
2017.10.13
Tamami Nakano(Associate Prof)'s eyeblinks study has been published in Yomiuri newspaper .
2017.10.01
A new paper by Takahashi and collaborators in Juntendo University has been published in Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry .
2017.09.27
A paper by Takahashi & Kitazawa (2017) published in J Neurosci has been reviewed in "the Journal Club" of the journal.
2017.08.18
A new paper entitled "Pattern component modeling: A flexible approach for understanding the representational structure of brain activity patterns" which Dr. Atsushi Yokoi (JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow) was a contributing author has been accepted in Neuroimage .
2017.06.07
A Neuron paper by Inoue, Uchimura & Kitazawa (2016) has been recommended as "a very elegant study highlighting the role of motor cortex in feedback learning" in F1000 Prime. Access the recommendation on F1000
2017.04.27
A new paper by Takahashi and Kitazawa entitled "Modulation of illusory reversal in tactile temporal order by the phase of posterior alpha rhythm" has appeared in Journal of Neuroscience .
2017.03.08
A new paper by Nakano and Kitazawa entitled "Development of long-term event memory in preverbal infants: an eye-tracking study" has been published in Scientific Reports .
2017.03.03
A new research paper by Yokoi et al. "Restricted transfer of learning between unimanual and bimanual finger sequences" has been published in Journal of Neurophysiology.
2017.03.01
A new paper by Nakano and Kitazawa entitled "A group of very preterm children characterized by atypical gaze patterns" has been published in Brain and Development .
2017.01.13
A new paper by Chakrabarty (D4), Nakano and Kitazawa entitled "Short-latency allocentric control of saccadic eye movements" has appeared in Journal of Neurophysiology .
2017.01.13
A new paper by Nakano(Associate Prof) entitled "The Right Angular Gyrus Controls Spontaneous Eyeblink Rate: A Combined Structural MRI and TMS Study" has been published in Cortex.
2016.12.23
A new paper by Nakano(Associate Prof) entitled "Eyeblink Synchrony in Multimodal Human-Android Interaction" has been published in Scientific Reports.
2016.12.14
A new paper by Isomura and Nakano(Associate Prof) entitled "Automatic facial mimicry in response to dynamic emotional stimuli in five-month-old infants" has been published in Proceeding of the Royal Society B.
2016.11.30
A new paper by Kumano et al. has been published in Journal of Neuroscience.
2016.11.21
A new review article by Hayashi MJ entitled "Brain Mechanisms for Measuring Time: Population Coding of Durations" has been published in Brain Nerve (Article in Japanese).
2016.10.26
A new paper entitled ""Tagging motor memories with transcranial direct current stimulation allows later artificially-controlled retrieva" which Dr. Atsushi Yokoi (JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow) was a contributing author was recommended in the F 1000 Prime Access the recommendation on F1000
2016.09.15
Tamami Nakano(Associate Prof)'s eyeblinks study has been published in Asahi newspaper and Nikkei newspaper.
2016.09.03
Dr. Atsushi Yokoi (JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow) has won the "Best Poster Presentation Award for Young Scientists" at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Motor Control.
2016.03.12
A new study by Professor Kitazawa and colleagues has appeared in Neuron.Error signals for adapting to errors in reaching was shown to be submitted well before we get even aware of the error.
2016.02.24
A new paper by Takahashi et al. has been published in Scientific Reports.
2016.01.20
Mrinmoy Chakrabarty, Tamami Nakano and Shigeru Kitazawa won the joint First Prize in the Poster Session of 4th IPBS (Interdisciplinary Program for Biomedical Sciences) Progress Report Meeting.
2015.12.18
Dr. Masamichi Hayashi (JSPS Research Fellow) won the "Best Presentation Award for Young Scientists" at the 2015 Winter Symposium of the Comprehensive Brain Science Network.
2015.09.30
A new paper by Inoue et al. entitled "Modulation of prism adaptation by a shift of background in the monkey" has been published in Behavioural Brain Research.Monkeys depend on the "background coordinate" in estimating the error in reaching as the humans do.
2015.09.18
A new research article by Hayashi et al. entitled "Time Adaptation Shows Duration Selectivity in the Human Parietal Cortex" has been published in PLoS Biology.This neuroimaging study provided empirical evidence for the existence of duration-tuned neural populations in the human parietal cortex.
2015.08.26
A new paper has been published in Journal of Neurophysiology.
2015.06.10
A new paper by Ozawa et al., "The return trip is felt shorter only postdictively: A psychophysiological study of the return trip effect" has been published in PLOS ONE. The new finding was covered by many media: Scientific American, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA TODAY, Daily Mail, BNR Nieuwsradio, and etc.
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2015.05.14
A new paper has been published in Journal of Neural Engineering.Target locations as well as timing of saccadic eye movements were successfully decoded from neuronal activity in macaque oculomotor areas, by using a new template matching method.
2015.05.01
A new paper by Uchimura et al. has been published in European Journal of Neuroscience.
Recent behavioral studies have shown that a stimulus position is automatically represented allocentrically relative to a large frame in the background. Here, we investigated neural correlates of the "background coordinate" using an f-MRI adaptation technique. We found that the background coordinate is implemented in the right precuneus.
2015.04.09
Dr. Komura from AIST gave a special talk "Feeling of knowing one's own vision in monkeys and humans" at Osaka University.
2015.03.24
Associate Professor Tamami Nakano was awarded from the Neurocreative Laboratory.
2015.03.24
A new review paper, "Tactile temporal order", has been published in Scholarpedia.
2015.03.11
A new research article has been published in PLoS ONE (Nishikawa, Shimo, Wada, Hattori, & Kitazawa, 2015). Parkinson's disease did NOT show any significant effects on tactile temporal order judgment.
2015.03.02
Tamami Nakano(Associate Prof)'s eyeblinks study has been published in Scientific Reports.
2015.01.19
A new paper, "A model of face selection in viewing video stories" has been published in Scientific Reports.
2014.10.08
A new paper, "Three time scales in prism adaptation" has been published in Journal of Neurophysiology.
2014.09.16
Tamami Nakano(Associate Prof)'s eyeblinks study has been published in JT Biohistory Research Hall URL.
2014.09.08
Tamami Nakano(Associate Prof) and Kazuko Nakatani(Technicians)'s study "Cortical networks for face perception in two-month-old infants" has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.
2014.05.14
Dr. Hironori Kumano (Assistant Professor)'s study has been published in Journal of Neurophysiology.
2014.05.01
Nobuyuki Nishimura(student), Mrinmoy Chakrabarty(student), Ryosuke Ozawa(student), Ikko Kimura(student), Masato Inoue(Research Associate) newly joined our laboratory!
2014.04.07
Associate Professor Tamami Nakano was awarded the Young Scientists' Prize from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for her study on the functional role and neural mechanisms of spontaneous eyeblinks.
2014.03.18
Tamami Nakano(Associate Prof)'s eyeblinks study has been published in Mainichi newspaper
2013.11.19
Dr. Atsushi Senju visited us from London, and kindly gave us a lecture entitled "Development of Spontaneous Social Cognition"
2013.10.18
Ms.Abe and Mr.Kakuta got an award as the best proposal award at the 3rd Cinet meeting.
2013.10.05
Dr. Michiko Yoshie (PD, JSPS) and Prof. Patrick Haggard study " Negative Emotional Outcomes Attenuate Sense of Agency over Voluntary Actions" has been published in Current Biology.
2013.10.02
Prof. Amari gave a special intensive lecture at Osaka University.
2013.10.01
Dr. Hironori Kumano (Assistant Professor) joined our lab.
2013.09.15
Kick-off symposium of "The Science of Mental Time" was held in Tokyo University, Fukutake hall. More than 130 people joined us.
2013.09.07
Dr.Motoaki Uchimura won a Young Investigator Award in the 7th Motor Control Workshop.
2013.08.15
A new HP has been launched for a joint research project The Science of Mental Time. Professor Kitazawa serves as the project leader.
2013.08.02
Tamami Nakano (Associate Prof.) was awarded Osaka University Presidential Awards for Encouragement.
2013.07.30
Our eye-tracking study will be covered in a TV program "Science ZERO" (NHK Educational TV, Aug 4, 11:30PM On air).
2013.07.01
A new paper " Facilitation of face recognition through the retino-tectal pathway " has been published in Neuropsychologia.
2013.04.24
A new paper regarding "a novel utility of allocentric coordinates" has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
2013.04.19
Dr. Katsuyuki Sakai (the University of Tokyo) gave a lecture at the 11th Heart to Heart Science Seminar.
2013.04.11
Our paper "Blink-related momentary activation of the default mode network while viewing videos" has been selected for F1000Prime. It was recommended as being of special significance in its field by a Faculty Member of Professor Patrick Haggard in UCL. Access the recommendation on F1000
2013.03.18
Dr. Elena Azañon (University College London) gave a lecture at the 7th Dynamic Brain Network Seminar.
2013.01.08
Our paper appeared in "THIS WEEK in PNAS".
2012.12.25
Our latest blink study received broad coverage in news medias. Visit NBC news.com and Guardian.com!
2012.12.25
A new paper examining the brain activity related to eyeblinks has been published in PNAS.
2012.12.04
Prof.Kitazawa was invited as a guest speaker to the IIAS Research Conference2012 "Evolutionary Origins of Human Mind". Dr.Nakano got an award as the best poster presentation at the conference.
2012.09.14
Prof.Ikegaya gave a lecture at Frontier Biosciences Colloquium.
2012.09.09
Prof.Rizzolatti gave a keynote lecture in a symposium named "Mirror neuron: 20 years after the discovery" at Kyoto University. Associate Professor Tamami Nakano gave a lecture in the symposium.
2012.08.01
Dr. Masanori Saruwatari (Assistant Professor) joined our lab.
2012.07.26
The 13th Summer Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind was held in Sendai International Center.
2012.06.24
Dr. Michiko Yoshie (PD, JSPS) won a best presentation award in the 6th Motor Control Workshop held in National Institues of Natural Sciences.
2012.06.15
Dr. Amano gave a lecture at Heart to Heart Science seminar.
2012.06.01
"The New Handbook of Multisensory Processing" has been published from the MIT Press. Prof. Kitazawa contributed a chapter (Chapter 16, Multisensory Timing) as a co-author.
2012.05.31
"Neural correlates of tactile temporal-order judgment in humans: an fMRI study" has been accepted for publication in Cerebral Cortex.