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Neuroscience

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878

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Overview

Shinsuke Shimojo is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and has a substantial body of research in neuroscience and psychology. Their work predominantly focuses on cognitive neuroscience and spans various subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, sensory systems, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as EEG and brain-computer interfaces, multisensory perception and integration, neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, olfactory and sensory function studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and color perception and design.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include Daw-An Wu, Shao-Min Hung, Xianghong Arakaki, Noelle R. B. Stiles, and Armand R. Tanguay.

The venues where Shimojo has published frequently include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Journal of Perceptual Imaging
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Selected recent papers by Shimojo include:

  • "The connection between heart rate variability (HRV), neurological health, and cognition: A literature review," 2023, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • "Team Flow Is a Unique Brain State Associated with Enhanced Information Integration and Interbrain Synchrony," 2021, eNeuro
  • "Task-induced attention load guides and gates unconscious semantic interference," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Disrupted brain functional connectivity as early signature in cognitively healthy individuals with pathological CSF amyloid/tau," 2024, Communications Biology
  • "Auditory Mondrian masks the airborne-auditory artifact of focused ultrasound stimulation in humans," 2023, Brain Stimulation

Shimojo's research emphasizes the relationships between brain function, cognitive processes, and perception, often integrating advanced neuroimaging and experimental techniques. The focus on neural dynamics and multisensory integration underscores a cross-disciplinary approach linking neural mechanisms to behavior and sensory experiences.

Best Publications

  • Illusions: What you see is what you hear

    Ladan Shams;Yukiyasu Kamitani;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Gaze bias both reflects and influences preference.

    Shinsuke Shimojo;Claudiu Simion;Eiko Shimojo;Christian Scheier

  • Visual illusion induced by sound

    Ladan Shams;Yukiyasu Kamitani;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Sensory modalities are not separate modalities: plasticity and interactions.

    Shinsuke Shimojo;Ladan Shams

  • Evidence for a Common Representation of Decision Values for Dissimilar Goods in Human Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

    Vikram S. Chib;Antonio Rangel;Shinsuke Shimojo;John P. O'Doherty;John P. O'Doherty

  • Recalibration of audiovisual simultaneity

    Waka Fujisaki;Shinsuke Shimojo;Shinsuke Shimojo;Makio Kashino;Shin'ya Nishida

  • Neural Computations Underlying Arbitration between Model-Based and Model-free Learning

    Sang Wan Lee;Shinsuke Shimojo;John P. O’Doherty

  • Is avoiding an aversive outcome rewarding? Neural substrates of avoidance learning in the human brain.

    Hackjin Kim;Shinsuke Shimojo;John P O'Doherty

  • Stereoscopic Depth: Its Relation to Image Segmentation, Grouping, and the Recognition of Occluded Objects

    Ken Nakayama;Shinsuke Shimojo;Gerald H Silverman

  • Visual surface representation: a critical link between lower-level and higher level vision

    K. Nakayama;Z. J. He;S. Shimojo;S. M Kosslyn

  • Bare skin, blood and the evolution of primate colour vision

    Mark A Changizi;Qiong Zhang;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Focal visual attention produces illusory temporal order and motion sensation.

    Okihide Hikosaka;Satoru Miyauchi;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Experiencing and perceiving visual surfaces

    Ken Nakayama;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Occlusion and the solution to the aperture problem for motion

    Shinsuke Shimojo;Gerald H. Silverman;Ken Nakayama

  • da Vinci stereopsis: depth and subjective occluding contours from unpaired image points.

    Ken Nakayama;Shinsuke Shimojo

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

    Kyongsik Yun;Katsumi Watanabe;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Distortions of subjective time perception within and across senses.

    Virginie van Wassenhove;Dean V. Buonomano;Shinsuke Shimojo;Ladan Shams

  • The Structures of Letters and Symbols throughout Human History Are Selected to Match Those Found in Objects in Natural Scenes

    Mark A. Changizi;Qiong Zhang;Hao Ye;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Transparency: Relation to Depth, Subjective Contours, Luminance, and Neon Color Spreading:

    Ken Nakayama;Shinsuke Shimojo;Vilayanur S Ramachandran

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

    Katsumi Watanabe;Shinsuke Shimojo

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsumi Watanabe
Katsumi Watanabe Waseda University
Joydeep Bhattacharya
Joydeep Bhattacharya Goldsmiths University of London
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University
John P. O'Doherty
John P. O'Doherty California Institute of Technology
Ryota Kanai
Ryota Kanai University of Sussex
Yukiyasu Kamitani
Yukiyasu Kamitani Kyoto University
Ladan Shams
Ladan Shams University of California, Los Angeles
Okihide Hikosaka
Okihide Hikosaka National Institutes of Health
Joseph L. Kirschvink
Joseph L. Kirschvink California Institute of Technology
Takeo Watanabe
Takeo Watanabe Brown University

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