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Naoyuki Osaka

Naoyuki Osaka

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Psychology

D-Index
33
Citations
4746
World Ranking
10540
National Ranking
34

Overview

Naoyuki Osaka is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and specializes primarily in neuroscience and psychology. Their research encompasses several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's main research topics focus on EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity studies, color perception and design, aesthetic perception and analysis, advanced memory and neural computing, and memory processes and influences.

Naoyuki Osaka has published papers in numerous venues, most frequently in Transactions of the Japan Academy, followed by Frontiers in Psychology, Scientific Reports, PsyCh Journal, and The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association.

  • Capacity differences in working memory based on resting state brain networks, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Cooperation and competition between the default mode network and frontal parietal network in the elderly, 2023, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Does Implicit Self-Reference Effect Occur by the Instantaneous Own-Name?, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Emotional neuroaesthetics of color experience: Views from single, paired, and complex color combinations, 2022, PsyCh Journal
  • Toward the development of the integrated social brain research, 2020, The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association

Frequent coauthors of Naoyuki Osaka include Mariko Osaka, Ken Yaoi, Mizuki Kaneda, Miyuki Azuma, and Tetsuya Shimokawa.

  • Mariko Osaka
  • Ken Yaoi
  • Mizuki Kaneda
  • Miyuki Azuma
  • Tetsuya Shimokawa

Best Publications

  • The neural basis of individual differences in working memory capacity : an fMRI study

    Mariko Osaka;Naoyuki Osaka;Hirohito M. Kondo;Masanao Morishita

  • The neural basis of executive function in working memory: an fMRI study based on individual differences.

    Naoyuki Osaka;Mariko Osaka;Hirohito M. Kondo;Masanao Morishita

  • Cooperation of the anterior cingulate cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for attention shifting.

    Hirohito M. Kondo;Hirohito M. Kondo;Naoyuki Osaka;Mariko Osaka

  • Functional roles of the cingulo-frontal network in performance on working memory.

    Hirohito M. Kondo;Masanao Morishita;Naoyuki Osaka;Mariko Osaka

  • Language-independent working memory as measured by Japanese and English reading span tests

    Mariko Osaka;Naoyuki Osaka

  • How Two Brains Make One Synchronized Mind in the Inferior Frontal Cortex: fNIRS-Based Hyperscanning During Cooperative Singing.

    Naoyuki Osaka;Takehiro Minamoto;Ken Yaoi;Miyuki Azuma

  • A word expressing affective pain activates the anterior cingulate cortex in the human brain: an fMRI study

    Naoyuki Osaka;Mariko Osaka;Masanao Morishita;Hirohito Kondo

  • Eye movement control in reading unspaced text: the case of the Japanese script.

    Natsumi Kajii;Tatjana A. Nazir;Naoyuki Osaka

  • Coactivation of the Default Mode Network regions and Working Memory Network regions during task preparation

    Hideya Koshino;Takehiro Minamoto;Ken Yaoi;Mariko Osaka

  • Neural bases of focusing attention in working memory: An fMRI study based on group differences

    Mariko Osaka;Mie Komori;Masanao Morishita;Naoyuki Osaka

  • Size of saccade and fixation duration of eye movements during reading: psychophysics of Japanese text processing

    Naoyuki Osaka

  • Language-independent working memory: Evidence from German and French reading span tests

    Mariko Osaka;Naoyuki Osaka;Rudolf Groner

  • [Working memory capacity related to reading: measurement with the Japanese version of reading span test].

    Mariko Osaka;Naoyuki Osaka

  • Effective visual field size necessary for vertical reading during Japanese text processing

    Naoyuki Osaka;Koichi Oda

  • Implied motion because of instability in Hokusai Manga activates the human motion-sensitive extrastriate visual cortex: an fMRI study of the impact of visual art.

    Naoyuki Osaka;Daisuke Matsuyoshi;Takashi Ikeda;Mariko Osaka

  • Effect of focus on verbal working memory: critical role of the focus word in reading.

    Mariko Osaka;Yukiko Nishizaki;Mie Komori;Naoyuki Osaka

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) applied to left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex disrupts verbal working memory performance in humans.

    Naoyuki Osaka;Yuki Otsuka;Nobuyuki Hirose;Takashi Ikeda

  • Is the self special in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex? An fMRI study

    Ken Yaoi;Naoyuki Osaka;Mariko Osaka

  • Motion aftereffect with flickering test stimuli depends on adapting velocity.

    Hiroshi Ashida;Naoyuki Osaka

  • Eye fixation and saccade during kana and kanji text reading: Comparison of English and Japanese text processing.

    Naoyuki Osaka

  • When do negative and positive emotions modulate working memory performance

    Mariko Osaka;Ken Yaoi;Takehiro Minamoto;Naoyuki Osaka

  • Individual differences in working memory capacity and distractor processing: possible contribution of top-down inhibitory control.

    Takehiro Minamoto;Mariko Osaka;Naoyuki Osaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Irving Biederman
Irving Biederman University of Southern California
Randall W. Engle
Randall W. Engle Georgia Institute of Technology
Tatjana A. Nazir
Tatjana A. Nazir Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Bruce Bridgeman
Bruce Bridgeman University of California, Santa Cruz

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