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Katsuyuki Sakai

Katsuyuki Sakai

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Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
11937
World Ranking
7746
National Ranking
259

Overview

Katsuyuki Sakai is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant number of publications in cognitive neuroscience. Their work spans related subfields such as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's research interests cover several topics including neurobiology of language and bilingualism, functional brain connectivity studies, memory and neural mechanisms, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, reading and literacy development, neural dynamics and brain function, and memory processes and influences.

Sakai has contributed to a number of studies published in various academic journals. Some recent papers include:

  • "Paper Notebooks vs. Mobile Devices: Brain Activation Differences During Memory Retrieval" (2021) published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • "Differential Effects of a Left Frontal Glioma on the Cortical Thickness and Complexity of Both Hemispheres" (2020) published in Cerebral Cortex Communications
  • "Enhanced activations in syntax-related regions for multilinguals while acquiring a new language" (2021) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Task-Induced Functional Connectivity of the Syntax-Related Networks for Patients with a Cortical Glioma" (2020) published in Cerebral Cortex Communications
  • "Diffuse glioma-induced structural reorganization in close association with preexisting syntax-related networks" (2023) published in Cortex

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sakai include Keita Umejima, Ryuta Kinno, Yoshihiro Muragaki, Kyohei Tanaka, and Takashi Maruyama.

The venues where they have most often published are:

  • PubMed
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Cerebral Cortex Communications
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Best Publications

  • Central mechanisms of motor skill learning

    Okihide Hikosaka;Kae Nakamura;Katsuyuki Sakai;Hiroyuki Nakahara

  • Parallel neural networks for learning sequential procedures

    Okihide Hikosaka;Hiroyuki Nakahara;Miya K. Rand;Katsuyuki Sakai

  • Reading hidden intentions in the human brain.

    John-Dylan Haynes;Katsuyuki Sakai;Geraint Rees;Sam Gilbert

  • Transition of Brain Activation from Frontal to Parietal Areas in Visuomotor Sequence Learning

    Katsuyuki Sakai;Okihide Hikosaka;Satoru Miyauchi;Ryousuke Takino

  • Prefrontal interactions reflect future task operations.

    Katsuyuki Sakai;Richard E. Passingham

  • Paired-pulse magnetic stimulation of the human motor cortex: differences among I waves

    Ritsuko Hanajima;Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yasuo Terao;Katsuyuki Sakai

  • Task Set and Prefrontal Cortex

    Katsuyuki Sakai

  • Active maintenance in prefrontal area 46 creates distractor-resistant memory.

    Katsuyuki Sakai;James B. Rowe;Richard E. Passingham

  • Chunking during human visuomotor sequence learning

    Katsuyuki Sakai;Katsuya Kitaguchi;Okihide Hikosaka

  • Neuronal Activity in Medial Frontal Cortex During Learning of Sequential Procedures

    Kae Nakamura;Katsuyuki Sakai;Katsuyuki Sakai;Okihide Hikosaka

  • Activation of human presupplementary motor area in learning of sequential procedures: a functional MRI study

    O. Hikosaka;K. Sakai;S. Miyauchi;R. Takino

  • Neural representation of a rhythm depends on its interval ratio.

    Katsuyuki Sakai;Katsuyuki Sakai;Okihide Hikosaka;Satoru Miyauchi;Ryousuke Takino

  • Prefrontal set activity predicts rule-specific neural processing during subsequent cognitive performance.

    Katsuyuki Sakai;Richard E. Passingham

  • Organization of action sequences and the role of the pre-SMA.

    Steve W Kennerley;Katsuyuki Sakai;Matthew F Rushworth

  • Presupplementary Motor Area Activation during Sequence Learning Reflects Visuo-Motor Association

    Katsuyuki Sakai;Okihide Hikosaka;Satoru Miyauchi;Yuka Sasaki

  • Autonomous Mechanism of Internal Choice Estimate Underlies Decision Inertia

    Rei Akaishi;Rei Akaishi;Kazumasa Umeda;Asako Nagase;Katsuyuki Sakai

  • The prefrontal cortex and working memory: physiology and brain imaging

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  • Task-specific signal transmission from prefrontal cortex in visual selective attention.

    Yosuke Morishima;Rei Akaishi;Yohei Yamada;Jiro Okuda

  • What and When: Parallel and Convergent Processing in Motor Control

    Katsuyuki Sakai;Katsuyuki Sakai;Okihide Hikosaka;Ryousuke Takino;Satoru Miyauchi

  • Shortening of simple reaction time by peripheral electrical and submotor-threshold magnetic cortical stimulation

    Yasuo Terao;Y. Ugawa;Masahiko Suzuki;Katsuyuki Sakai

  • Facilitatory effect of tonic voluntary contraction on responses to motor cortex stimulation

    Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yasuo Terao;Ritsuko Hanajima;Katsuyuki Sakai

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasuo Terao
Yasuo Terao Kyorin University
Okihide Hikosaka
Okihide Hikosaka National Institutes of Health
Yoshikazu Ugawa
Yoshikazu Ugawa Fukushima Medical University
Richard E. Passingham
Richard E. Passingham University of Oxford
Ritsuko Hanajima
Ritsuko Hanajima Tottori University
Toshiaki Furubayashi
Toshiaki Furubayashi Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University
James B. Rowe
James B. Rowe University of Cambridge
Yuka Sasaki
Yuka Sasaki Brown University
Yasuo Kawaguchi
Yasuo Kawaguchi The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
John-Dylan Haynes
John-Dylan Haynes Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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