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Wataru Sato

Wataru Sato

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Psychology

D-Index
40
Citations
7334
World Ranking
8203
National Ranking
23

Overview

Wataru Sato is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan. Their research primarily lies at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their work spans several key topics, including:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Wataru Sato has published extensively in prominent venues, with frequent contributions appearing in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Sensors
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Proceedings of the International Topical Workshop on Fukushima Decommissioning Research
  • Nutrients

Several recent publications highlight their research focus, such as:

  • "Physiological correlates of subjective emotional valence and arousal dynamics while viewing films" (2020) published in Biological Psychology
  • "Emotional valence sensing using a wearable facial EMG device" (2021) published in Scientific Reports

Aside from these, related works by frequent collaborators include studies on emotional communication and social support mechanisms, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement across psychology and neuroscience.

Wataru Sato's research is often conducted alongside frequent co-authors, including:

  • Sakiko Yoshikawa
  • Takanori Kochiyama
  • Shushi Namba
  • Takashi Minato
  • Chun-Ting Hsu

Their contributions to the fields of psychology and neuroscience have spanned multiple subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, clinical psychology, and sensory systems.

Best Publications

  • Cross-cultural reading the mind in the eyes: An fmri investigation

    Reginald B. Adams;Nicholas O. Rule;Robert G. Franklin;Elsie Wang

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

    Wataru Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Sakiko Yoshikawa;Eiichi Naito

  • Frontal midline theta rhythm is correlated with cardiac autonomic activities during the performance of an attention demanding meditation procedure.

    Yasutaka Kubota;Wataru Sato;Motomi Toichi;Toshiya Murai

  • Spontaneous facial mimicry in response to dynamic facial expressions.

    Wataru Sato;Sakiko Yoshikawa

  • 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

  • Enhanced facial EMG activity in response to dynamic facial expressions

    Wataru Sato;Tomomi Fujimura;Naoto Suzuki

  • The dynamic aspects of emotional facial expressions

    Wataru Sato;Sakiko Yoshikawa

  • 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

  • Attentional shift by gaze is triggered without awareness

    Wataru Sato;Takashi Okada;Motomi Toichi

  • Enhanced Experience of Emotional Arousal in Response to Dynamic Facial Expressions

    Wataru Sato;Sakiko Yoshikawa

  • The structural neural substrate of subjective happiness.

    Wataru Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Shota Uono;Yasutaka Kubota

  • Seeing happy emotion in fearful and angry faces: qualitative analysis of facial expression recognition in a bilateral amygdala-damaged patient.

    Wataru Sato;Yasutaka Kubota;Takashi Okada;Toshiya Murai

  • Rapid amygdala gamma oscillations in response to fearful facial expressions

    Wataru Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Shota Uono;Kazumi Matsuda

  • Right hemispheric dominance in processing of unconscious negative emotion

    Wataru Sato;Satoshi Aoki

  • The atypical social brain network in autism: advances in structural and functional MRI studies.

    Wataru Sato;Shota Uono

  • Dynamic facial expressions of emotion induce representational momentum

    Sakiko Yoshikawa;Wataru Sato

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

    Wataru Sato;Takanori Kochiyama;Shota Uono;Sakiko Yoshikawa

  • Misrecognition of facial expressions in delinquents

    Wataru Sato;Shota Uono;Naomi Matsuura;Motomi Toichi

Frequent Co-Authors

Sakiko Yoshikawa
Sakiko Yoshikawa Kyoto University
Toshiya Murai
Toshiya Murai Kyoto University
Carien M. van Reekum
Carien M. van Reekum University of Reading
Gyöngyi Kökönyei
Gyöngyi Kökönyei Eötvös Loránd University
Feng Kong
Feng Kong Shaanxi Normal University
Thomas W. Schubert
Thomas W. Schubert University of Oslo
Kazuo Okanoya
Kazuo Okanoya University of Tokyo
Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Nicholas O. Rule
Nicholas O. Rule University of Toronto
Norihiro Hagita
Norihiro Hagita Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

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