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Overview

Takeo Watanabe is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and specializes in neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, as well as clinical psychology.

The scientist's work spans key topics such as neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural and behavioral psychology studies, sleep and wakefulness research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, functional brain connectivity studies, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Recent publications by Takeo Watanabe include:

  • Complementary contributions of non-REM and REM sleep to visual learning, 2020, published in Nature Neuroscience
  • Fundamental Differences in Visual Perceptual Learning between Children and Adults, 2020, published in Current Biology
  • Supervised Learning Occurs in Visual Perceptual Learning of Complex Natural Images, 2020, published in Current Biology
  • Efficient learning in children with rapid GABA boosting during and after training, 2022, published in Current Biology
  • Role of endogenous and exogenous attention in task-relevant visual perceptual learning, 2020, published in PLoS ONE

Takeo Watanabe frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Biology
  • Cerebral Cortex

Coauthor collaborations are a significant aspect of their research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Yuka Sasaki
  • Sebastian Frank
  • Takashi Yamada
  • Kazuhisa Shibata
  • Masako Tamaki

Best Publications

  • Perceptual learning without perception

    T. Watanabe;Jose Nanez;Y. Sasaki

  • Perceptual Learning Incepted by Decoded fMRI Neurofeedback Without Stimulus Presentation

    Kazuhisa Shibata;Takeo Watanabe;Yuka Sasaki;Mitsuo Kawato

  • Advances in visual perceptual learning and plasticity

    Yuka Sasaki;Jose E. Nanez;Takeo Watanabe

  • A unified model for perceptual learning

    Aaron Seitz;Takeo Watanabe

  • Different dynamics of performance and brain activation in the time course of perceptual learning.

    Yuko Yotsumoto;Yuko Yotsumoto;Takeo Watanabe;Yuka Sasaki;Yuka Sasaki

  • Is subliminal learning really passive

    Aaron R. Seitz;Takeo Watanabe

  • Perceptual learning: toward a comprehensive theory.

    Takeo Watanabe;Yuka Sasaki

  • Rewards Evoke Learning of Unconsciously Processed Visual Stimuli in Adult Humans

    Aaron R. Seitz;Dongho Kim;Takeo Watanabe

  • Perceptual learning rules based on reinforcers and attention

    Pieter R. Roelfsema;Pieter R. Roelfsema;Arjen van Ooyen;Takeo Watanabe

  • A small number of abnormal brain connections predicts adult autism spectrum disorder

    Noriaki Yahata;Jun Morimoto;Ryuichiro Hashimoto;Giuseppe Lisi

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  • Greater plasticity in lower-level than higher-level visual motion processing in a passive perceptual learning task

    Ta keo Watanabe;José E. Náñez;Shinichi Koyama;Ikuko Mukai

  • Advances in fMRI Real-Time Neurofeedback

    Takeo Watanabe;Yuka Sasaki;Kazuhisa Shibata;Mitsuo Kawato

  • Greater Disruption Due to Failure of Inhibitory Control on an Ambiguous Distractor

    Yoshiaki Tsushima;Yuka Sasaki;Yuka Sasaki;Takeo Watanabe

  • Night Watch in One Brain Hemisphere during Sleep Associated with the First-Night Effect in Humans

    Masako Tamaki;Ji Won Bang;Takeo Watanabe;Yuka Sasaki

  • Task-dependent influences of attention on the activation of human primary visual cortex

    Takeo Watanabe;Alexander M. Harner;Satoru Miyauchi;Yuka Sasaki

  • Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by rapidly making neurochemical processing inhibitory-dominant

    Kazuhisa Shibata;Yuka Sasaki;Ji Won Bang;Edward G. Walsh

  • Attention-Regulated Activity in Human Primary Visual Cortex

    Takeo Watanabe;Yuka Sasaki;Satoru Miyauchi;Benno Putz

  • Temporally extended dopamine responses to perceptually demanding reward-predictive stimuli.

    Kensaku Nomoto;Wolfram Schultz;Takeo Watanabe;Masamichi Sakagami

  • The primary visual cortex fills in color

    Yuka Sasaki;Takeo Watanabe

  • The phenomenon of task-irrelevant perceptual learning.

    Aaron R. Seitz;Takeo Watanabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuka Sasaki
Yuka Sasaki Brown University
Aaron R. Seitz
Aaron R. Seitz University of California, Riverside
Mitsuo Kawato
Mitsuo Kawato Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University
Shinsuke Shimojo
Shinsuke Shimojo California Institute of Technology
Noriaki Yahata
Noriaki Yahata National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Matti Hämäläinen
Matti Hämäläinen Harvard Medical School
Roger B. H. Tootell
Roger B. H. Tootell Harvard University
Hiroshi Imamizu
Hiroshi Imamizu University of Tokyo
Mark W. Greenlee
Mark W. Greenlee University of Regensburg

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