2026 Hiroto Kawasaki: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	45	6959	6405	3003	2704	154	7012

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Overview

Hiroto Kawasaki is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with substantial contributions in subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Developmental Neuroscience, Physiology, and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

The scientist has produced a significant body of work exploring topics such as Neural dynamics and brain function, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders, Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research, and Anesthesia and Sedative Agents.

Frequent co-authors include Matthew A. Howard, Kirill V. Nourski, Christopher K. Kovach, Ariane E. Rhone, and Hiroyuki Oya. Collaborative work with these colleagues spans numerous publications, evidencing ongoing partnerships in related research areas.

Hiroto Kawasaki has published extensively in several venues, notably:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 16 publications
Cerebral Cortex with 4 publications
Nature Communications with 3 publications
World Neurosurgery with 3 publications
Neuropsychologia with 2 publications

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kawasaki are:

Common fronto-temporal effective connectivity in humans and monkeys, 2021, Neuron
Cortical functional connectivity indexes arousal state during sleep and anesthesia, 2020, NeuroImage
Common Fronto-temporal Effective Connectivity in Humans and Monkeys, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Electrophysiology of the Human Superior Temporal Sulcus during Speech Processing, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
Oscillatory correlates of auditory working memory examined with human electrocorticography, 2020, Neuropsychologia

Best Publications

Single-neuron responses to emotional visual stimuli recorded in human ventral prefrontal cortex

Hiroto Kawasaki;Ralph Adolphs;Olaf Kaufman;Hanna Damasio

536
Citations
Genome-wide DNA methylation comparison between live human brain and peripheral tissues within individuals

Patricia R. Braun;Patricia R. Braun;Patricia R. Braun;Shizhong Han;Shizhong Han;Shizhong Han;Benjamin Hing;Yasunori Nagahama

422
Citations
Electrophysiological Responses in the Human Amygdala Discriminate Emotion Categories of Complex Visual Stimuli

Hiroyuki Oya;Hiroto Kawasaki;Matthew A. Howard;Ralph Adolphs

299
Citations
Temporal Envelope of Time-Compressed Speech Represented in the Human Auditory Cortex

Kirill V. Nourski;Richard A. Reale;Hiroyuki Oya;Hiroto Kawasaki

285
Citations
Breathing Inhibited When Seizures Spread to the Amygdala and upon Amygdala Stimulation

Brian J. Dlouhy;Brian K. Gehlbach;Collin J. Kreple;Hiroto Kawasaki

236
Citations
Neural signatures of perceptual inference.

William Sedley;William Sedley;Phillip E Gander;Sukhbinder Kumar;Sukhbinder Kumar;Sukhbinder Kumar;Christopher K Kovach

210
Citations
Coding of repetitive transients by auditory cortex on Heschl's gyrus.

John F. Brugge;John F. Brugge;Kirill V. Nourski;Hiroyuki Oya;Richard A. Reale;Richard A. Reale

190
Citations
Human Auditory Cortical Activation during Self-Vocalization

Jeremy D. W. Greenlee;Adam W. Jackson;Fangxiang Chen;Charles R. Larson

157
Citations
Manifestation of ocular-muscle EMG contamination in human intracranial recordings

Christopher K. Kovach;Christopher K. Kovach;Christopher K. Kovach;Naotsugu Tsuchiya;Naotsugu Tsuchiya;Hiroto Kawasaki;Hiroyuki Oya

137
Citations
Effects of gap junction blockers on human neocortical synchronization.

S. Gigout;J. Louvel;H. Kawasaki;M. D'Antuono

135
Citations
Direct recordings of pitch responses from human auditory cortex.

Timothy D. Griffiths;Sukhbinder Kumar;William Sedley;Kirill V. Nourski

132
Citations
Processing of facial emotion in the human fusiform gyrus

Hiroto Kawasaki;Naotsugu Tsuchiya;Christopher K. Kovach;Kirill V. Nourski

130
Citations
Electrophysiological correlates of reward prediction error recorded in the human prefrontal cortex

Hiroyuki Oya;Ralph Adolphs;Hiroto Kawasaki;Antoine Bechara

126
Citations
Decoding face information in time, frequency and space from direct intracranial recordings of the human brain

Naotsugu Tsuchiya;Hiroto Kawasaki;Hiroyuki Oya;Matthew A. Howard

125
Citations
Common Fronto-temporal Effective Connectivity in Humans and Monkeys

Francesca Rocchi;Hiroyuki Oya;Fabien Balezeau;Alexander J. Billig

119
Citations
A functional connection between inferior frontal gyrus and orofacial motor cortex in human.

Jeremy D. W. Greenlee;Hiroyuki Oya;Hiroto Kawasaki;Igor O. Volkov

113
Citations
Intracranial Mapping of a Cortical Tinnitus System using Residual Inhibition

William Sedley;William Sedley;Phillip E. Gander;Sukhbinder Kumar;Sukhbinder Kumar;Hiroyuki Oya

113
Citations
Auditory-visual processing represented in the human superior temporal gyrus.

R.A. Reale;G.A. Calvert;G.A. Calvert;T. Thesen;R.L. Jenison

110
Citations
Value Encoding in Single Neurons in the Human Amygdala during Decision Making

Rick L. Jenison;Antonio Rangel;Hiroyuki Oya;Hiroto Kawasaki

110
Citations
Intracranial Study of Speech-Elicited Activity on the Human Posterolateral Superior Temporal Gyrus

Mitchell Steinschneider;Kirill V. Nourski;Hiroto Kawasaki;Hiroyuki Oya

102
Citations
Functional localization of auditory cortical fields of human: click-train stimulation.

John F. Brugge;John F. Brugge;Igor O. Volkov;Hiroyuki Oya;Hiroto Kawasaki

99
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