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Yukiyasu Kamitani

Yukiyasu Kamitani

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Neuroscience

D-Index
35
Citations
11487
World Ranking
9092
National Ranking
335

Yukiyasu Kamitani publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yukiyasu Kamitani sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 142 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Yukiyasu Kamitani D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yukiyasu Kamitani sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Yukiyasu Kamitani is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has an extensive research record primarily focused on neuroscience.

The main field of study for Kamitani's work is Neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Biophysics.

Their research covers a broad range of neuroscience topics, concentrating largely on Neural dynamics and brain function, Face Recognition and Perception, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Cell Image Analysis Techniques.

Frequently publishing in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neural Networks, iScience, and Communications Biology, Kamitani's work spans both preprint servers and peer-reviewed journals.

Among the recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Kamitani are:

  • Natural and Artificial Intelligence: A brief introduction to the interplay between AI and neuroscience research, 2021, Neural Networks
  • The Neural Representation of Visually Evoked Emotion Is High-Dimensional, Categorical, and Distributed across Transmodal Brain Regions, 2020, iScience
  • Brain hierarchy score: Which deep neural networks are hierarchically brain-like?, 2021, iScience
  • Decoding distributed oscillatory signals driven by memory and perception in the prefrontal cortex, 2022, Cell Reports
  • BCI training to move a virtual hand reduces phantom limb pain, 2020, Neurology

Kamitani has collaborated extensively, with frequent coauthors including Kei Majima, Tomoyasu Horikawa, Shuntaro Aoki, Misato Tanaka, and Fan Cheng. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers engaged in overlapping aspects of neuroscience and brain science.

Best Publications

  • Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain

    Yukiyasu Kamitani;Frank Tong;Frank Tong

  • Illusions: What you see is what you hear

    Ladan Shams;Yukiyasu Kamitani;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Visual illusion induced by sound

    Ladan Shams;Yukiyasu Kamitani;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Visual Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity using a Combination of Multiscale Local Image Decoders

    Yoichi Miyawaki;Hajime Uchida;Okito Yamashita;Masa-aki Sato

  • Neural Decoding of Visual Imagery During Sleep

    T. Horikawa;M. Tamaki;Y. Miyawaki;Y. Kamitani

  • Generic decoding of seen and imagined objects using hierarchical visual features

    Tomoyasu Horikawa;Yukiyasu Kamitani

  • Decoding seen and attended motion directions from activity in the human visual cortex

    Yukiyasu Kamitani;Frank Tong

  • Sparse estimation automatically selects voxels relevant for the decoding of fMRI activity patterns.

    Okito Yamashita;Masa-aki Sato;Taku Yoshioka;Frank Tong

  • Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity.

    Guohua Shen;Tomoyasu Horikawa;Kei Majima;Yukiyasu Kamitani

  • Electrocorticographic control of a prosthetic arm in paralyzed patients

    Takufumi Yanagisawa;Masayuki Hirata;Youichi Saitoh;Haruhiko Kishima

  • Real-time control of a prosthetic hand using human electrocorticography signals: Technical note

    Takufumi Yanagisawa;Masayuki Hirata;Youichi Saitoh;Tetsu Goto

  • Sound alters visual evoked potentials in humans.

    Ladan Shams;Yukiyasu Kamitani;Samuel Thompson;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Afterimage of perceptually filled-in surface

    Shinsuke Shimojo;Shinsuke Shimojo;Yukiyasu Kamitani;Shin'ya Nishida

  • End-to-End Deep Image Reconstruction From Human Brain Activity.

    Guohua Shen;Kshitij Dwivedi;Kei Majima;Tomoyasu Horikawa

  • Regulation of motor representation by phase-amplitude coupling in the sensorimotor cortex.

    Takufumi Yanagisawa;Okito Yamashita;Masayuki Hirata;Haruhiko Kishima

  • Manifestation of scotomas created by transcranial magnetic stimulation of human visual cortex.

    Yukiyasu Kamitani;Shinsuke Shimojo

  • Spatial smoothing hurts localization but not information: pitfalls for brain mappers.

    Yukiyasu Kamitani;Yasuhito Sawahata

  • Natural and Artificial Intelligence: A brief introduction to the interplay between AI and neuroscience research.

    Tom Macpherson;Anne Churchland;Terry Sejnowski;James DiCarlo

  • Effects of single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on functional brain activity: a combined event-related TMS and evoked potential study.

    G Thut;G Northoff;J.R Ives;Y Kamitani

  • Simultaneous recording of ECoG and intracortical neuronal activity using a flexible multichannel electrode-mesh in visual cortex.

    Haruo Toda;Takafumi Suzuki;Hirohito Sawahata;Kei Majima

  • Hierarchical Neural Representation of Dreamed Objects Revealed by Brain Decoding with Deep Neural Network Features

    Tomoyasu Horikawa;Yukiyasu Kamitani

Frequent Co-Authors

Masayuki Hirata
Masayuki Hirata Osaka University
Haruhiko Kishima
Haruhiko Kishima Osaka University
Youichi Saitoh
Youichi Saitoh Osaka University
Shinsuke Shimojo
Shinsuke Shimojo California Institute of Technology
Frank Tong
Frank Tong Vanderbilt University
Tsuyoshi Miyakawa
Tsuyoshi Miyakawa Fujita Health University
Ben Seymour
Ben Seymour University of Oxford
Ladan Shams
Ladan Shams University of California, Los Angeles
Norihiro Sadato
Norihiro Sadato National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley

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