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Overview

Takanori Kochiyama is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan, focusing their research primarily in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, prominently cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

Their research covers a variety of topics, including neural and behavioral psychology studies, face recognition and perception, functional brain connectivity studies, action observation and synchronization, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Sensors
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience

Kochiyama has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Wataru Sato (13 collaborations), Sakiko Yoshikawa (6), Ryo Kitada (6), Shota Uono (5), and Takahiro Ezaki (5).

Selected recent papers by Kochiyama include:

  • Physiological correlates of subjective emotional valence and arousal dynamics while viewing films, 2020, Biological Psychology
  • Amygdala activity related to perceived social support, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Physical correlates of human-like softness elicit high tactile pleasantness, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Exploration of Emotion Dynamics Sensing Using Trapezius EMG and Fingertip Temperature, 2022, Sensors
  • The widespread action observation/execution matching system for facial expression processing, 2023, Human Brain Mapping

Best Publications

  • Prefrontal and premotor cortices are involved in adapting walking and running speed on the treadmill: an optical imaging study

    Mitsuo Suzuki;Ichiro Miyai;Takeshi Ono;Takeshi Ono;Ichiro Oda

  • Enhanced neural activity in response to dynamic facial expressions of emotion: an fMRI study

    Wataru Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Sakiko Yoshikawa;Eiichi Naito

  • Internally simulated movement sensations during motor imagery activate cortical motor areas and the cerebellum.

    Eiichi Naito;Takanori Kochiyama;Ryo Kitada;Satoshi Nakamura

  • Emotional expression boosts early visual processing of the face: ERP recording and its decomposition by independent component analysis.

    Wataru Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Sakiko Yoshikawa;Michikazu Matsumura

  • The amygdala processes the emotional significance of facial expressions: an fMRI investigation using the interaction between expression and face direction.

    Wataru Sato;Sakiko Yoshikawa;Takanori Kochiyama;Michikazu Matsumura

  • Impaired social brain network for processing dynamic facial expressions in autism spectrum disorders.

    Wataru Sato;Motomi Toichi;Shota Uono;Takanori Kochiyama

  • Relationships among facial mimicry, emotional experience, and emotion recognition.

    Wataru Sato;Tomomi Fujimura;Takanori Kochiyama;Naoto Suzuki

  • Brain networks involved in haptic and visual identification of facial expressions of emotion: an fMRI study.

    Ryo Kitada;Ingrid S. Johnsrude;Takanori Kochiyama;Susan J. Lederman

  • The role of the right prefrontal cortex in self-evaluation of the face: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Tomoyo Morita;Shoji Itakura;Daisuke N. Saito;Satoshi Nakashita

  • The structural neural substrate of subjective happiness.

    Wataru Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Shota Uono;Yasutaka Kubota

  • Cross-modal integration and plastic changes revealed by lip movement, random-dot motion and sign languages in the hearing and deaf

    Norihiro Sadato;Tomohisa Okada;Manabu Honda;Ken-Ichi Matsuki

  • Rapid amygdala gamma oscillations in response to fearful facial expressions

    Wataru Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Shota Uono;Kazumi Matsuda

  • Reconstructing the Neanderthal brain using computational anatomy

    Takanori Kochiyama;Naomichi Ogihara;Hiroki C. Tanabe;Osamu Kondo

  • Cross-modal Binding and Activated Attentional Networks during Audio-visual Speech Integration: a Functional MRI Study

    Daisuke N. Saito;Kumiko Yoshimura;Takanori Kochiyama;Tomohisa Okada

  • Tactile estimation of the roughness of gratings yields a graded response in the human brain: an fMRI study.

    Ryo Kitada;Ryo Kitada;Toshihiro Hashimoto;Takanori Kochiyama;Tomonori Kito

  • Multisensory Activation of the Intraparietal Area When Classifying Grating Orientation: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Ryo Kitada;Tomonori Kito;Daisuke N. Saito;Takanori Kochiyama

  • Altered Cognitive Function of Prefrontal Cortex During Error Feedback in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Based on fMRI and Dynamic Causal Modeling

    Emiko Aizawa;Yasuhiro Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Naohiro Saito

  • Commonalities in the neural mechanisms underlying automatic attentional shifts by gaze, gestures, and symbols.

    Wataru Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Shota Uono;Sakiko Yoshikawa

  • Role of the cerebellum in implicit motor skill learning: a PET study

    Michikazu Matsumura;Norihiro Sadato;Takanori Kochiyama;Satoshi Nakamura

  • Functional specialization and convergence in the occipito-temporal cortex supporting haptic and visual identification of human faces and body parts: An fmri study

    Ryo Kitada;Ingrid S. Johnsrude;Takanori Kochiyama;Susan J. Lederman

  • Tactile–visual integration in the posterior parietal cortex: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Satoru Nakashita;Daisuke N. Saito;Takanori Kochiyama;Manabu Honda

Frequent Co-Authors

Norihiro Sadato
Norihiro Sadato National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Wataru Sato
Wataru Sato Kyoto University
Sakiko Yoshikawa
Sakiko Yoshikawa Kyoto University
Yushi Inoue
Yushi Inoue RMIT University
Susan J. Lederman
Susan J. Lederman Queen's University
Eiichi Naito
Eiichi Naito National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Motoaki Sugiura
Motoaki Sugiura Tohoku University
Manabu Honda
Manabu Honda National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Tomohisa Okada
Tomohisa Okada Kyoto University
Hajime Mushiake
Hajime Mushiake Tohoku University

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