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Eiichi Naito is affiliated with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and advanced neuroimaging techniques.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including motor control and adaptation, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, functional brain connectivity, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience, and visual perception and processing mechanisms.

Eiichi Naito has coauthored numerous publications with several frequent collaborators. Notable coauthors include Tomoyo Morita, Satoshi Hirose, Minoru Asada, Nodoka Kimura, and Hiromasa Takemura.

The primary venues for their research publications include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain Sciences, Scientific Reports, Cortex, and Brain Imaging and Behavior.

Significant recent papers by Eiichi Naito include:

  • Bimanual digit training improves right-hand dexterity in older adults by reactivating declined ipsilateral motor-cortical inhibition, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Age dependency and lateralization in the three branches of the human superior longitudinal fasciculus, 2021, Cortex
  • Neurological and behavioral features of locomotor imagery in the blind, 2020, Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • Examination of the development and aging of brain deactivation using a unimanual motor task, 2021, Advanced Robotics
  • Gray-Matter Expansion of Social Brain Networks in Individuals High in Public Self-Consciousness, 2021, Brain Sciences

Best Publications

  • Consensus paper: roles of the cerebellum in motor control--the diversity of ideas on cerebellar involvement in movement.

    Mario Manto;James M. Bower;Adriana Bastos Conforto;José M. Delgado-García

  • Imagery of voluntary movement of fingers, toes, and tongue activates corresponding body-part-specific motor representations

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Stefan Geyer;Eiichi Naito

  • Enhanced neural activity in response to dynamic facial expressions of emotion: an fMRI study

    Wataru Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Sakiko Yoshikawa;Eiichi Naito

  • Listening to rhythms activates motor and premotor cortices

    Sara L. Bengtsson;Fredrik Ullén;H. Henrik Ehrsson;Toshihiro Hashimoto

  • Internally simulated movement sensations during motor imagery activate cortical motor areas and the cerebellum.

    Eiichi Naito;Takanori Kochiyama;Ryo Kitada;Satoshi Nakamura

  • Illusory arm movements activate cortical motor areas: a positron emission tomography study.

    Eiichi Naito;H. Henrik Ehrsson;Stefan Geyer;Karl Zilles

  • I feel my hand moving: a new role of the primary motor cortex in somatic perception of limb movement.

    Eiichi Naito;Eiichi Naito;Per E. Roland;H.Henrik Ehrsson

  • Dominance of the Right Hemisphere and Role of Area 2 in Human Kinesthesia

    Eiichi Naito;Per E. Roland;Christian Grefkes;H. J. Choi

  • Fast reaction to different sensory modalities activates common fields in the motor areas, but the anterior cingulate cortex is involved in the speed of reaction

    Eiichi Naito;Shigeo Kinomura;Stefan Geyer;Ryuta Kawashima

  • Neural Substrate of Body Size: Illusory Feeling of Shrinking of the Waist

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Tomonori Kito;Norihiro Sadato;Richard E Passingham

  • Human limb-specific and non-limb-specific brain representations during kinesthetic illusory movements of the upper and lower extremities.

    Eiichi Naito;Tokuro Nakashima;Tomonori Kito;Yu Aramaki

  • Body representations in the human brain revealed by kinesthetic illusions and their essential contributions to motor control and corporeal awareness.

    Eiichi Naito;Eiichi Naito;Tomoyo Morita;Tomoyo Morita;Kaoru Amemiya;Kaoru Amemiya

  • Simultaneous movements of upper and lower limbs are coordinated by motor representations that are shared by both limbs: a PET study.

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Eiichi Naito;Stefan Geyer;Katrin Amunts

  • Kinesthetic illusion of wrist movement activates motor-related areas.

    Eiichi Naito;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • Sensing Limb Movements in The Motor Cortex: How Humans Sense Limb Movement:

    Eiichi Naito

  • Somatosensory areas in man activated by moving stimuli: cytoarchitectonic mapping and PET.

    Anna Bodegård;Stefan Geyer;Eiichi Naito;Karl Zilles

  • Somatic sensation of hand-object interactive movement is associated with activity in the left inferior parietal cortex.

    Eiichi Naito;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • Efficient foot motor control by Neymar’s brain

    Eiichi Naito;Eiichi Naito;Satoshi Hirose

  • Activity in the Posterior Parietal Cortex Mediates Visual Dominance over Kinesthesia

    Nobuhiro Hagura;Tomohiko Takei;Satoshi Hirose;Yu Aramaki

  • Visuokinesthetic Perception of Hand Movement is Mediated by Cerebro–Cerebellar Interaction between the Left Cerebellum and Right Parietal Cortex

    Nobuhiro Hagura;Yutaka Oouchida;Yu Aramaki;Tomohisa Okada

Frequent Co-Authors

Per E. Roland
Per E. Roland University of Copenhagen
Norihiro Sadato
Norihiro Sadato National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Stefan Geyer
Stefan Geyer Max Planck Society
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
H. Henrik Ehrsson
H. Henrik Ehrsson Karolinska Institute
Ryuta Kawashima
Ryuta Kawashima Tohoku University
Takanori Kochiyama
Takanori Kochiyama Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Hiroshi Fukuda
Hiroshi Fukuda Tohoku University
Hans Forssberg
Hans Forssberg Karolinska Institute
Tomohisa Okada
Tomohisa Okada Kyoto University

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