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Katsumi Watanabe

Katsumi Watanabe

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
7174
World Ranking
7834
National Ranking
263

Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
6513
World Ranking
9149
National Ranking
27

Overview

Katsumi Watanabe is affiliated with Waseda University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. The scientist's work also extends into experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, as well as sensory systems.

The main research topics Katsumi Watanabe has focused on include:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Face recognition and perception
  • Color perception and design
  • Action observation and synchronization
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment
  • Evolutionary psychology and human behavior

Watanabe's recent publications demonstrate a focus on neural and psychological mechanisms underlying perception and social cognition. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Phase dependent modulation of cortical activity during action observation and motor imagery of walking: An EEG study" (2020), published in NeuroImage
  • "People have modest, not good, insight into their face recognition ability: a comparison between self-report questionnaires" (2020), published in Psychological Research
  • "Gait-phase-dependent and gait-phase-independent cortical activity across multiple regions involved in voluntary gait modifications in humans" (2020), published in European Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Your Face and Moves Seem Happier When I Smile" (2020), published in Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie)
  • "People With High Autistic Traits Show Fewer Consensual Crossmodal Correspondences Between Visual Features and Tastes" (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Katsumi Watanabe include:

  • Koyo Nakamura
  • Na Chen
  • Akira Sarodo
  • Maiko Kobayashi
  • Kimitaka Nakazawa

Watanabe has contributed repeatedly to several publication venues, with a notable number of works appearing in:

  • Journal of Vision
  • The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • A neural correlate of response bias in monkey caudate nucleus

    Johan Lauwereyns;Katsumi Watanabe;Brian Coe;Okihide Hikosaka

  • Interpersonal body and neural synchronization as a marker of implicit social interaction

    Kyongsik Yun;Katsumi Watanabe;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Enhancement of pinch force in the lower leg by anodal transcranial direct current stimulation

    Satoshi Tanaka;Takashi Hanakawa;Manabu Honda;Katsumi Watanabe

  • When Sound Affects Vision: Effects of Auditory Grouping on Visual Motion Perception

    Katsumi Watanabe;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Single session of transcranial direct current stimulation transiently increases knee extensor force in patients with hemiparetic stroke.

    Satoshi Tanaka;Kotaro Takeda;Yohei Otaka;Kahori Kita

  • Cultural Differences in Perception and Attitude towards Robots

    Kerstin Sophie Haring;Céline Mougenot;Fuminori Ono;Katsumi Watanabe

  • Neural Correlates of Rewarded and Unrewarded Eye Movements in the Primate Caudate Nucleus

    Katsumi Watanabe;Johan Marc Jose Lauwereyns;Johan Marc Jose Lauwereyns;Okihide Hikosaka

  • Transcranial direct-current stimulation increases extracellular dopamine levels in the rat striatum

    Tomoko Tanaka;Yuji Takano;Satoshi Tanaka;Naoyuki Hironaka

  • Attentional modulation in perception of visual motion events

    Katsumi Watanabe;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Neural Limits to Representing Objects Still within View

    Hiroyuki Tsubomi;Hiroyuki Tsubomi;Hiroyuki Tsubomi;Keisuke Fukuda;Katsumi Watanabe;Edward K. Vogel

  • Eccentric perception of biological motion is unscalably poor.

    Hanako Ikeda;Randolph Blake;Katsumi Watanabe;Katsumi Watanabe

  • Stimulation of Cyclic AMP Production by the Rat Testis During Incubation with hCG in Vitro

    M.L. Dufau;K. Watanabe;K.J. Catt

  • Molecular-sieve type sorption on alkali graphite intercalation compounds

    K. Watanabe;T. Kondow;M. Soma;T. Onishi

  • Larger Right Posterior Parietal Volume in Action Video Game Experts: A Behavioral and Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) Study

    Satoshi Tanaka;Hanako Ikeda;Kazumi Kasahara;Ryo Kato

  • Social Rewards Enhance Offline Improvements in Motor Skill

    Sho K. Sugawara;Sho K. Sugawara;Satoshi Tanaka;Satoshi Tanaka;Shuntaro Okazaki;Katsumi Watanabe

  • Effect of target-distractor similarity on FEF visual selection in the absence of the target.

    Takashi R. Sato;Katsumi Watanabe;Kirk G. Thompson;Jeffrey D. Schall

  • The role of attention in motion extrapolation: are moving objects 'corrected' or flashed objects attentionally delayed?

    Beena Khurana;Beena Khurana;Katsumi Watanabe;Romi Nijhawan;Romi Nijhawan

  • Gaze cueing by pareidolia faces.

    Kohske Takahashi;Katsumi Watanabe

  • Sorption of Molecular Hydrogen by Potassium Graphite

    K. Watanabe;M. Soma;T. Onishi;K. Tamaru

  • Roles of the upper and lower bodies in direction discrimination of point-light walkers

    Kohske Takahashi;Haruaki Fukuda;Hanako Ikeda;Hanako Ikeda;Hirokazu Doi

  • Behavioral speed contagion: Automatic modulation of movement timing by observation of body movements

    Katsumi Watanabe

  • What is special about the index finger?: The index finger advantage in manipulating reflexive attentional shift

    Atsunori Ariga;Katsumi Watanabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinsuke Shimojo
Shinsuke Shimojo California Institute of Technology
Joydeep Bhattacharya
Joydeep Bhattacharya Goldsmiths University of London
Takashi Hanakawa
Takashi Hanakawa Kyoto University
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Yoshio Minabe
Yoshio Minabe Kanazawa University
Manabu Honda
Manabu Honda National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Norihiro Sadato
Norihiro Sadato National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Mitsuru Kikuchi
Mitsuru Kikuchi Kanazawa University
Tatsuya Kameda
Tatsuya Kameda Meiji Gakuin University
Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake Vanderbilt University

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