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Yuka Sasaki is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics related to neural dynamics, visual perception, and sleep research.

The scientist's recent publications demonstrate their involvement in visual learning and perceptual processes. Notable papers include "Complementary contributions of non-REM and REM sleep to visual learning" (2020, Nature Neuroscience), "Fundamental Differences in Visual Perceptual Learning between Children and Adults" (2020, Current Biology), "Supervised Learning Occurs in Visual Perceptual Learning of Complex Natural Images" (2020, Current Biology), "Efficient learning in children with rapid GABA boosting during and after training" (2022, Current Biology), and "Early Visual Cortex Stimulation Modifies Well-Consolidated Perceptual Gains" (2020, Cerebral Cortex).

Sasaki frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Takeo Watanabe
  • Takashi Yamada
  • Sebastian Frank
  • Masako Tamaki
  • Kazuhisa Shibata

The scientist's publications appear regularly in several key journals, with the highest number of contributions in:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Biology
  • STAR Protocols

Their main fields of research include neuroscience, with a specific focus on cognitive neuroscience. Additional subfields of study cover experimental and cognitive psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

Research topics explored in Sasaki's work feature:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Sleep and wakefulness research
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Memory and neural mechanisms

The scope and diversity of Yuka Sasaki's research contribute to understanding complex neural processes underlying learning, perception, and brain function across development and different brain states.

Best Publications

  • Human cerebellar activity reflecting an acquired internal model of a new tool

    Hiroshi Imamizu;Satoru Miyauchi;Tomoe Tamada;Yuka Sasaki

  • Perceptual learning without perception

    T. Watanabe;Jose Nanez;Y. Sasaki

  • Transition of Brain Activation from Frontal to Parietal Areas in Visuomotor Sequence Learning

    Katsuyuki Sakai;Okihide Hikosaka;Satoru Miyauchi;Ryousuke Takino

  • 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

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

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

  • Perceptual learning: toward a comprehensive theory.

    Takeo Watanabe;Yuka Sasaki

  • Stereopsis activates V3A and caudal intraparietal areas in macaques and humans

    Doris Y. Tsao;Wim Vanduffel;Wim Vanduffel;Yuka Sasaki;Denis Fize

  • Activation of human presupplementary motor area in learning of sequential procedures: a functional MRI study

    O. Hikosaka;K. Sakai;S. Miyauchi;R. Takino

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

    Noriaki Yahata;Jun Morimoto;Ryuichiro Hashimoto;Giuseppe Lisi

  • Repeated fMRI using iron oxide contrast agent in awake, behaving macaques at 3 Tesla.

    Francisca Pais Leite;Doris Tsao;Wim Vanduffel;Denis Fize

  • Symmetry activates extrastriate visual cortex in human and nonhuman primates

    Yuka Sasaki;Wim Vanduffel;Tamara Knutsen;Christopher Tyler

  • 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

  • Presupplementary Motor Area Activation during Sequence Learning Reflects Visuo-Motor Association

    Katsuyuki Sakai;Okihide Hikosaka;Satoru Miyauchi;Yuka Sasaki

  • The Radial Bias: A Different Slant on Visual Orientation Sensitivity in Human and Nonhuman Primates

    Yuka Sasaki;Yuka Sasaki;Reza Rajimehr;Byoung Woo Kim;Leeland B. Ekstrom;Leeland B. Ekstrom

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeo Watanabe
Takeo Watanabe Brown University
Mitsuo Kawato
Mitsuo Kawato Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Roger B. H. Tootell
Roger B. H. Tootell Harvard University
Wim Vanduffel
Wim Vanduffel Harvard University
Okihide Hikosaka
Okihide Hikosaka National Institutes of Health
Hiroshi Imamizu
Hiroshi Imamizu University of Tokyo
Noriaki Yahata
Noriaki Yahata National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Matti Hämäläinen
Matti Hämäläinen Harvard Medical School
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Katsuyuki Sakai
Katsuyuki Sakai University of Tokyo

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