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  • 2004 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation

Overview

Atsushi Iriki is affiliated with the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. Within these domains, their work addresses various specialized subfields such as social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The researcher's studies concentrate on topics including primate behavior and ecology, action observation and synchronization, olfactory and sensory function studies, neural dynamics and brain function, multisensory perception and integration, memory and neural mechanisms, and child and animal learning development.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Yumiko Yamazaki, Rafael Bretas, Banty Tia, Shinpei Kawarai, and Luciano Fadiga. These partnerships reflect a network of sustained cooperation contributing to scientific outputs.

Atsushi Iriki has published in several venues, with multiple papers appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and BMC Veterinary Research. Additional publications have appeared in Experimental Brain Research, Current Biology, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Atsushi Iriki are:

  • Secondary somatosensory cortex of primates: beyond body maps, toward conscious self-in-the-world maps, 2020, Experimental Brain Research
  • Neurons of rat motor cortex become active during both grasping execution and grasping observation, 2021, Current Biology
  • Earliest evidence of primate captivity and translocation supports gift diplomacy between Teotihuacan and the Maya, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Neural Evidence of Mirror Self-Recognition in the Secondary Somatosensory Cortex of Macaque: Observations from a Single-Cell Recording Experiment and Implications for Consciousness, 2021, Brain Sciences
  • THE SAPIENT PARADOX AND THE GREAT JOURNEY: INSIGHTS FROM COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROBIOLOGY, AND PHENOMENOLOGY, 2021, PSYCHOLOGIA

Atsushi Iriki received the Golden Brain Award from the Minerva Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Coding of modified body schema during tool use by macaque postcentral neurones

    A Iriki;M Tanaka;Y Iwamura

  • Tools for the body (schema).

    Angelo Maravita;Atsushi Iriki

  • Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds

    Andreas R. Pfenning;Erina Hara;Osceola Whitney;Miriam V. Rivas

  • Long-term potentiation in the motor cortex.

    Atsushi Iriki;Constantine Pavlides;Asaf Keller;Hiroshi Asanuma

  • Bilateral hand representation in the postcentral somatosensory cortex

    Yoshiaki Iwamura;Atsushi Iriki;Michio Tanaka

  • Shaping multisensory action-space with tools: evidence from patients with cross-modal extinction.

    Alessandro Farnè;Atsushi Iriki;Elisabetta Làdavas

  • Self-images in the video monitor coded by monkey intraparietal neurons.

    Atsushi Iriki;Michio Tanaka;Michio Tanaka;Shigeru Obayashi;Shigeru Obayashi;Yoshiaki Iwamura

  • The common marmoset as a novel animal model system for biomedical and neuroscience research applications

    Hideyuki Okano;Keigo Hikishima;Keigo Hikishima;Atsushi Iriki;Erika Sasaki

  • Long-term potentiation of thalamic input to the motor cortex induced by coactivation of thalamocortical and corticocortical afferents.

    Atsushi Iriki;Constantine Pavlides;Asaf Keller;Hiroshi Asanuma

  • Functional brain mapping of monkey tool use.

    Shigeru Obayashi;Shigeru Obayashi;Shigeru Obayashi;Tetsuya Suhara;Koichi Kawabe;Takashi Okauchi

  • Representation of Others' Action by Neurons in Monkey Medial Frontal Cortex

    Kyoko Yoshida;Nobuhito Saito;Atsushi Iriki;Masaki Isoda;Masaki Isoda;Masaki Isoda

  • Gray and white matter changes associated with tool-use learning in macaque monkeys

    M. M. Quallo;C. J. Price;K. Ueno;T. Asamizuya

  • Brain/MINDS: A Japanese National Brain Project for Marmoset Neuroscience

    Hideyuki Okano;Hideyuki Okano;Erika Sasaki;Tetsuo Yamamori;Atsushi Iriki

  • Triadic (ecological, neural, cognitive) niche construction: a scenario of human brain evolution extrapolating tool use and language from the control of reaching actions

    Atsushi Iriki;Miki Taoka

  • Social error monitoring in macaque frontal cortex.

    Kyoko Yoshida;Nobuhito Saito;Atsushi Iriki;Masaki Isoda

  • Extension of corticocortical afferents into the anterior bank of the intraparietal sulcus by tool-use training in adult monkeys

    Sayaka Hihara;Tomonori Notoya;Tomonori Notoya;Michio Tanaka;Shizuko Ichinose

  • The neuroscience of primate intellectual evolution: natural selection and passive and intentional niche construction

    Atsushi Iriki;Osamu Sakura

  • The neural origins and implications of imitation, mirror neurons and tool use

    Atsushi Iriki

  • Book Review: Bilateral Activity and Callosal Connections in the Somatosensory Cortex

    Yoshiaki Iwamura;Miki Taoka;Atsushi Iriki

  • Subjective image of invisible hand coded by monkey intraparietal neurons.

    Shigeru Obayashi;Michio Tanaka;Atsushi Iriki

  • Extending mind, visuospatial integration, and the evolution of the parietal lobes in the human genus

    Emiliano Bruner;Atsushi Iriki

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuo Okanoya
Kazuo Okanoya University of Tokyo
Naotaka Fujii
Naotaka Fujii RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Luciano Fadiga
Luciano Fadiga Italian Institute of Technology
Tsutomu Hashikawa
Tsutomu Hashikawa RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Tetsuya Suhara
Tetsuya Suhara National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Marcello G. P. Rosa
Marcello G. P. Rosa Monash University
Shigeru Watanabe
Shigeru Watanabe Keio University
Roger N. Lemon
Roger N. Lemon University College London
Hiroshi Asanuma
Hiroshi Asanuma Rockefeller University
Cathy J. Price
Cathy J. Price University College London

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