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Kazuo Okanoya

Kazuo Okanoya

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
41
Citations
7254
World Ranking
7885
National Ranking
21

Neuroscience

D-Index
53
Citations
10529
World Ranking
5099
National Ranking
157

Kazuo Okanoya publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kazuo Okanoya sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 456 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Kazuo Okanoya D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kazuo Okanoya sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Kazuo Okanoya is affiliated with Teikyo University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and psychology. Their work spans various subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, social psychology, and ecology.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of themes related to animal behavior and neurobiology. These include animal vocal communication and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, marine animal studies overview, neuroscience and music perception, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, primate behavior and ecology, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Okanoya has published numerous papers in frequent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS ONE, Behavioural Processes, Scientific Reports, and acta ethologica.

  • The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current 'myths' in naked mole-rat biology, 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Comparison of traveling-subject and ComBat harmonization methods for assessing structural brain characteristics, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • USVSEG: A robust method for segmentation of ultrasonic vocalizations in rodents, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Application of a Machine Learning Algorithm for Structural Brain Images in Chronic Schizophrenia to Earlier Clinical Stages of Psychosis and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Multiprotocol Imaging Dataset Study, 2022, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Fast Retrograde Access to Projection Neuron Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds, 2020, Cell Reports

Their frequent co-authors include Ryosuke O. Tachibana, Chihiro Mori, Shiomi Hakataya, Kenta Suzuki, and Noriko Katsu.

Best Publications

  • Twitter evolution: converging mechanisms in birdsong and human speech.

    Johan J. Bolhuis;Kazuo Okanoya;Kazuo Okanoya;Constance Scharff

  • Songs to syntax: the linguistics of birdsong

    Robert C. Berwick;Kazuo Okanoya;Kazuo Okanoya;Gabriel J.L. Beckers;Johan J. Bolhuis

  • ADULT BENGALESE FINCHES (LONCHURA STRIATA VAR. DOMESTICA) REQUIRE REAL-TIME AUDITORY FEEDBACK TO PRODUCE NORMAL SONG SYNTAX

    Kazuo Okanoya;Ayako Yamaguchi

  • The Bengalese finch: a window on the behavioral neurobiology of birdsong syntax.

    Kazuo Okanoya;Kazuo Okanoya

  • Hearing in passerine and psittacine birds: a comparative study of absolute and masked auditory thresholds.

    Kazuo Okanoya;Robert J. Dooling

  • Revisiting the syntactic abilities of non-human animals: natural vocalizations and artificial grammar learning

    Carel ten Cate;Kazuo Okanoya

  • Sad music induces pleasant emotion.

    Ai Kawakami;Kiyoshi Furukawa;Kentaro Katahira;Kazuo Okanoya

  • Rhythmic synchronization tapping to an audio-visual metronome in budgerigars

    Ai Hasegawa;Kazuo Okanoya;Toshikazu Hasegawa;Yoshimasa Seki

  • On-line assessment of statistical learning by event-related potentials

    Dilshat Abla;Kentaro Katahira;Kazuo Okanoya

  • Cross Fostering Experiments Suggest That Mice Songs Are Innate

    Takefumi Kikusui;Kaori Nakanishi;Ryoko Nakagawa;Miho Nagasawa

  • Birdsong neurolinguistics: songbird context-free grammar claim is premature.

    Gabriel J. L. Beckers;Johan J. Bolhuis;Kazuo Okanoya;Robert C. Berwick

  • Song syntax in Bengalese finches : proximate and ultimate analyses

    Kazuo Okanoya

  • Auditory perception of conspecific and heterospecific vocalizations in birds: evidence for special processes.

    Robert J. Dooling;Susan D. Brown;Georg M. Klump;Kazuo Okanoya

  • Identification of gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata): Peptide isolation, cDNA cloning and brain distribution

    Yasuko Tobari;Norio Iijima;Kenta Tsunekawa;Tomohiro Osugi

  • Lesion of a higher-order song nucleus disrupts phrase level complexity in Bengalese finches

    Tikara Hosino;Kazuo Okanoya

  • Speech perception by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): the voiced-voiceless distinction.

    Robert J. Dooling;Kazuo Okanoya;Susan D. Brown

  • Evaluation of Pax6 Mutant Rat as a Model for Autism

    Toshiko Umeda;Noriko Takashima;Noriko Takashima;Ryoko Nakagawa;Motoko Maekawa

  • Cognitive bias in rats evoked by ultrasonic vocalizations suggests emotional contagion.

    Yumi Saito;Shoko Yuki;Yoshimasa Seki;Hiroko Kagawa

  • Phase-Specific Vocalizations of Male Mice at the Initial Encounter during the Courtship Sequence.

    Yui K. Matsumoto;Kazuo Okanoya

  • Spontaneous vocal differentiation of coo-calls for tools and food in Japanese monkeys

    Sayaka Hihara;Hiroko Yamada;Atsushi Iriki;Kazuo Okanoya;Kazuo Okanoya

  • A Bird’s Eye View of Human Language Evolution

    Robert C. Berwick;Gabriël J. L. Beckers;Kazuo Okanoya;Johan J. Bolhuis

  • Partial lesions in the anterior forebrain pathway affect song production in adult Bengalese finches.

    Kohta Kobayashi;Hiroyuki Uno;Kazuo Okanoya

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshikazu Hasegawa
Toshikazu Hasegawa University of Tokyo
Atsushi Iriki
Atsushi Iriki RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Johan J. Bolhuis
Johan J. Bolhuis University of Cambridge
Jun Tani
Jun Tani Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Hans-Joachim Bischof
Hans-Joachim Bischof Bielefeld University
Shigeru Watanabe
Shigeru Watanabe Keio University
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis Rockefeller University
Naotaka Fujii
Naotaka Fujii RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Hideyuki Okano
Hideyuki Okano Keio University

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