Naotsugu Tsuchiya

土谷尚嗣


2012 Apr 3, updated

Homepage     http://emotion.caltech.edu/~naotsu/Naotsugu_Tsuchiyas_homepage/main.html

                       http://ai.brain.riken.jp/members/naotsugu-tsuchiya/

Email naotsu at gmail.com

Address : Building 17, School of Psychology and Psychiatry

                Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

                Monash University, Clayton Campus, Victoria 3800, Australia

Academic Positions

           2012 Jan- Associate Professor, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Australia

2010 Nov -(2014), 1. Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).  PRESTO (Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology) researcher

            2. Visiting Researcher at Dr. Naotaka Fujii’s lab (Lab for Adaptive Intelligence) at RIKEN

            3. Visiting Researcher at Division of Biology at Caltech

            4. Visiting Researcher at Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR) (from May 2011)

2009 Apr -2010 Oct, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) SPD fellow

2007-2009, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellow (Kaigai Gakushin)

2005-2010, Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Ralph Adolphs)


Education

2006, June 9, PhD awarded

2005, July 18, Thesis defended

Title: Attention and Awareness: Visual Psychophysics and Aversive Conditioning in Humans

2000-2005 Ph.D program in Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech (Advisor: Christof Koch)

2000 B.S. in Science (Biology), Kyoto University, Japan


Representative publications

1.Tsuchiya*, Moradi*, Felsen, Yamasaki, Adolphs (2009) “Intact rapid detection of fearful faces in the absence of the amygdala”, Nature Neuroscience vol 12 pp 1224-1225 (* -- equal contribution) 

2.Tsuchiya*, Kawasaki*, Oya, Howard, Adolphs (2008) “Decoding Time, Decoding Face Information in Time, Frequency and Space from Direct Intracranial Recordings of the Human Brain”, PLoS ONE (* -- equal contribution)

3.Tsuchiya N & Koch C, (2005) "Continuous Flash Suppression Reduces Negative Afterimages", Nature Neuroscience, 8:1096-1101.

4.Tsuchiya N & Adolphs  (2007) “Emotion and consciousness” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11:158-167

5.Koch C & Tsuchiya N (2007) “Attention and Consciousness: Two Distinct Brain Processes”, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11:16-22


Grant

  1. 1. 2011, Comprehensive Brain Science Network (CBSN) grant. 500,000 JPY as a support for the satellite symposium (“Neurophysiology of awareness and attention) for ASSC15.  PI: Tsuchiya, N.

  2. 2. 2010-(2014), JST PRESTO researcher --- 40,000,000 JPY research grant for 3.5 years.

  3. 3. 2009-2010 Mar, JSPS SPD fellow  --- 3,000,000 JPY/year research grant for 3 years (30,000$/year or 90,000$ in total)


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Publications

Original Research

  1. 1.NEW Wang Shuo, Ian Krajbich, Ralph Adolphs, Naotsugu Tsuchiya “The role of risk aversion in non-conscious decision-making” (in press) Frontiers in Cognitive Sciences 3:50. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00050

  2. 2.NEW  Hiroto Kawasaki, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Christopher Kovach, Kirill Nourski, Hiroyuki Oya, Matthew A Howard III, Ralph Adolphs,  “Processing of Facial Emotion in the Human Fusiform Gyrus” (2011, advanced online publication) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00175)

  3. 3.Florian Mormann, Julien Dubois, Simon Kornblith, Milica Milosavljevic, Moran Cerf, Matias Ison, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Alexander Kraskov, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Ralph Adolphs, Itzhak Fried & Christof Koch “A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala” Nature Neuroscience (2011) 14, 1247–1249 (2011) doi:10.1038/nn.2899

  4. 4. Christopher Kovach, Nao Tsuchiya, Hiroto Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Oya, Mathew A. Howard III, Ralph Adolphs  “Eye movement-related EMG contamination in intracranial electrophysiology” Neuroimage  (2011) Jan 1;54(1):213-33. Epub (2010) Aug 6.

  5. 5.Jeroen J. A. van Boxtel, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Christof Koch (2010) “Opposite effects of attention and consciousness on the duration of afterimages” PNAS May 11, vol. 107 no. 19 8883-8888

  6. 6.Leila Reddy, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Thomas Serre (2010) “Reading the mind’s eye: decoding category information during mental imagery”  Neuroimage  vol 50 pp 818-825 Reddy2009Neuroimage.pdf

  7. 7.Tsuchiya*, Moradi*, Felsen, Yamasaki, Adolphs (2009) “Intact rapid detection of fearful faces in the absence of the amygdala”, Nature Neuroscience vol 12 pp 1224-1225 (* -- equal contribution) -- Faculty of 1000 Biology   News & Views in Nature Neuroscience by Todd & Anderson 

  8. 8.Tsuchiya*, Kawasaki*, Oya, Howard, Adolphs (2008) “Decoding Time, Decoding Face Information in Time, Frequency and Space from Direct Intracranial Recordings of the Human Brain”, PLoS ONE (* -- equal contribution)

  9. 9.Wilimzig C, Tsuchiya N, Fahle M, Einhäuser W, Koch C (2008) “Spatial attention increases performance but not subjective confidence in a discrimination task”, Journal of Vision Wilimzig2008JOV.pdf

  10. 10.Sasson N, Tsuchiya N, Hurley R, Couture S, Penn D, Adolphs R, Piven J, (2007) “Scanning of Scenes in Autism and Schizophrenia” Neuropsychologia 45:2580-2588 Sasson2007Neuropsychologia.pdf

  11. 11.Tsuchiya N & Braun J (2007) "Contrast thresholds for component motion with full and poor attention ", Journal of Vision 7:1 Tsuchiya2007JOV-1.pdf

  12. 12.Kanai R, Tsuchiya N, Vanstraten F. A. J. (2006) "The scope and limits of top-down attention in unconscious visual processing", Current Biology 16:2332-2336

  13. 13.Tsuchiya N, Koch C, Gilroy LA, Blake R (2006) "Depth of Interocular Suppression Associated with Continuous Flash Suppression, Flash Suppression, and Binocular Rivalry", Journal of Vision, 6: 1068-1078

  14. 14.Tsuchiya N & Koch C, (2005) "Continuous Flash Suppression Reduces Negative Afterimages", Nature Neuroscience, 8:1096-1101.

  15. 15.Carter RM, Hofstotter C, Tsuchiya N, Koch C, (2003) "Working memory and fear conditioning", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100:1399-1404


Book Chapter

  1. 1.Tsuchiya & Koch C (2008) “The relationship between attention and consciousness”, Neurology of Consciousness (eds. Tononi & Laureys) 


Media

  1. 1.Sanders L (2012) “Consciousness emerges”, Feb 25, vol 181, #4 in Science News (this is an article based on our workshop at COSYNE 2011)

            http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/338294/title/Consciousness_Emerges


Review

  1. 1.New Ryota Kanai & Naotsugu Tsuchiya “Primer: Qualia” (2012) Current Biology  

  2. 1.Naotsugu Tsuchiya*, Jeroen J. A. van Boxtel*,  Christof Koch “Attention and consciousness : on sufficiency and necessity” (2010) Frontiers in Psychology --- * equal contribution WEBSITE

2.Tsuchiya N, Koch C (2008) “Attention and consciousness”, Scholarpedia, 3(5):417

3.Tsuchiya (2008) “Flash suppression”, Scholarpedia, 3 (2): 5640

4.Tsuchiya N & Adolphs  (2007) “Emotion and consciousness” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11:158-167

5.Koch C & Tsuchiya N (2007) “Attention and Consciousness: Two Distinct Brain Processes”, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11:16-22


Commentary

  1. 1.New Koch & Tsuchiya “Attention and consciousness: related yet different” Trends in cognitive sciences (2012) Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 103–105

  2. 2.Tsuchiya & van Boxtel (2010) “Is recurrent processing necessary and/or sufficient for consciousness?”   Cognitive Neuroscience 1: p230-231 --- Commentary to Victor Lamme

  3. 3.Tsuchiya N, Kreiman G. (2008). Psyche, attention and consciousness. Psyche 14, 1-2.

  4. 4.Koch & Tsuchiya (2008) “Phenomenology without conscious access is a form of consciousness without top-down attention”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, -- Commentary to Ned Block

  5. 5.Koch & Tsuchiya (2008) “Response to Mole: Subjects can attend to completely invisible objects”, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12:44-45.


Work in progress

  1. 1.Leigh Sepeta*, Naotsugu Tsuchiya*, Mari S. Davies, Marian Sigman, Susan Y. Bookheimer, and Mirella Dapretto (under revision) “Abnormal Social Reward Processing in Autism as Indexed by Pupillary Responses to Happy Faces” (* equal contribution)

  2. 2.Tsuchiya N*, Maier A*, Logothetis N, Leopold D (in preparation) “Neuronal activity in area MT during perceptual stabilization of ambiguous structure-from-motion” (* equal contribution)

  3. 3.Wang Shuo, Fukuchi, Koch C, Tsuchiya N (under revision) “The Focus of Expansion in Optical Flow Fields Acts as a Strong Cue for Visual Attention”.

  4. 4.Tsuchiya N, Cheng J, Elishiav D, Adolphs R, Mamelak A,(in preparation) “Visual consciousness tracked with direct intracranial recording from primary visual cortex in humans” (in preparation)

  5. 5.Oizumi M, Yanagawa, Amari S, Tsuchiya N, Fujii N (In preparation)

  6. 6.Van Boxtel and Tsuchiya (In preparation) “De-confounding neuronal constitution of phenomenal consciousness from attention, report and memory” Book chapter.

  7. 7. Tsuchiya N & Kanai R (in preparation) “Qualia” Entry for Japanese web-based encyclopedia for neuroscience

  8. 8. Takemura H & Tsuchiya N (in preparation) “Binocular rivalry” Entry for Japanese web-based encyclopedia for neuroscience

  9. 9. (Translation) Obata & Tsuchiya N, Iwanami Shoten


Editorial work

Scholarpedia (section for “attention”)

Frontiers in Neuroscience

    Binocular rivalry: a gateway to consciousness (co-editor with Keliris, Maier, Panagiotaropoulos)

Frontiers in Consciousness Research

    Attention and consciousness in different senses (co-editor with Van Boxtel)


Ad hoc reviewer for grants

  1. 1.National Science Foundation


Ad hoc reviewer for journals

  1. 1.Attention, Perception & Psychophysics

  2. 2.Cerebral Cortex

  3. 3.Current Biology

  4. 4.Consciousness and Cognition

  5. 5.Frontiers in Perceptual Science

  6. 6.Human Brain Mapping

  7. 7.Journal of Experimental Psychology

  8. 8.Journal of Vision

  9. 9.Journal of Neuroscience

  10. 10.Nature Neuroscience

  11. 11.Neuroimage

  12. 12.Neuropsychologia

  13. 13.PLoS ONE

  14. 14.Psyche

  15. 15.Psychological Science

  16. 16.PNAS

  17. 17.Scholarpedia

  18. 18.Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience


Publications in Japanese

  1. 1.New Oizumi M & Tsuchiya N (2012) “Does a thermometer have consciousness? -- theory and practice towards development of a consciousness meter” LiSA

  2. 2.Tsuchiya N (2007) “How does consciousness emerge from the brain activity? -- Approaches from neuroscience”, Gakujutsu Geppo 60(2):10-16

2.Tsuchiya N (2006) “The mechanism of consciousness and attention: Is ʻseeingʼ different from ʼlookingʼ?”, Kagaku, Iwanami Shoten, 76(3):292-295

3.Adolphs A, Tsuchiya N (2006) “Emotion and the Mind: from Descartes to Cognitive Neuroscience”, Kagaku, Iwanami Shoten, 76(3):254-260 


Awards

2010, Japan Science and Technology Agency: PRESTO (Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology)

2009, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Award for competitive young researchers (Yushu Wakage)

2009, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) SPD fellow

2008, William James Prize awarded from Association for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness

2007, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellow (Kaigai Gakushin)

2005, Best Student Presentation Award in the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 9, June 24-27, Caltech, Pasadena, CA


Translation (from English into Japanese)

1.Tsuchiya N, Kanai R, "Ishiki no Tankyu (Quest for Consciousness by Koch C, 2004)", Iwanami Shoten


Conference Tutorials

  1. 1.Tsuchiya & Kanai (2011) “Towards the neuroscientific definition and empirical investigation of qualia” Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 15th annual meeting. Kyoto, Japan. (3-hour tutorial)

  2. 2.Tsuchiya N (2010). "The relationship between top-down attention and consciousness" Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 14th annual meeting. Toronto, Canada. (3-hour tutorial)

  3. 3.Tsuchiya N, Koch C (2008). "The relationship between top-down attention and consciousness" Towards a science of consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, USA. (4-hour tutorial)

  4. 4.Tsuchiya N, Koch C (2007). "The relationship between top-down attention and consciousness" Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 11th annual meeting. Las Vegas, USA. (3-hour tutorial)

  5. 5.Tsuchiya N, Koch C (2006). "The relationship between selective attention and consciousness" Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 10th annual meeting. Oxford, UK. (3-hour tutorial)


Symposia & Workshops

  1. 1.Chai-Youn Kim (2012), “Across the Surface of Conscious Visual Awareness” Symposium at Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (Speakers, Sheng He, Joel Pearson, Naotsugu Tsuchiya)

  2. 2.Tsuchiya & Maier A (2012) “The Neural Basis of Consciousness - Recent Advances and Breakthroughs” mini-symposium at Society for Neuroscience (Speakers: Owen A, Boly, M, Tsuchiya, N, Maier A, Tallon-Barudry C, Kreiman G)

  3. 3.Carter, O., Tsuchiya N., Williams M., Arazadeh E., Bode S., (2011) “Using decoding and predictive analysis techniques to investigate cognitive and perceptual processing”. Australian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Sydney, Australia.

  4. 4.Tsuchiya, N., Ogawa, T., Yoshida, M., and Isa, T. (2011) “Neurophysiology of attention and awareness” Satellite workshop for ASSC 15, Kyoto, Japan (1-day workshop) (Speakers: Kreiman G., Tsuchiya N., Uchida N., Wilke M., Ogawa T., & Yoshida M).  Funded by CBSN (Comprehensive Brain Science Network)

  5. 5.Tsuchiya N & Maier A (2011). "Computational approaches for consciousness" Computational and System Neuroscience (COSYNE), 14th annual meeting. Utah, USA. (1-day workshop)  (Speakers: Maier, Tsuchiya, Stanislas Dehaene, Guilio Tononi, Anil Seth)

  6. 6.van Boxtel & Tsuchiya  (2010). "Dissociations between top-down attention and visual awareness " Vision Science Society, Florida, USA. (2-hour symposium).  Speakers: Tsuchiya, van Boxtel, Takeo Watanabe, Joel Voss, Alex Maier (Talk: Tsuchiya “The relationship between top-down attention and conscious awareness”)

  7. 7.Maier, Wike, Tsuchiya N  (2010). "Electrophysiological approaches towards consciousness" Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 14th annual meeting. Toronto, Canada. (2-hour symposium)

  8. 8.Yoshida M, Tsuchiya N, (2009), “Scientific Studies of Consciousness" International workshop at National Institute of Physiological Studies, Okazaki, Aichi Japan (2-day workshop)

  9. 9.Tsuchiya N, Kanai R (2009), “Neuronal mechanisms of visual illusions : empirical approaches from psychophysics, brain stimulation, electrophysiology, and pharmacology", 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, Nagoya, Japan (2-hour workshop, inviting Olivia Carter and Melanie Wilke) (Talk: Tsuchiya “Backward masking and continuous flash suppression in human intracranial recordings”)

  10. 10.Yoshida M, Tsuchiya N, (2008), “Neuronal mechanism of visual awareness: Empirical approaches from psychophysics, fMRI, and electrophysiology", 31st Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, Tokyo, Japan (2-hour workshop, inviting Alex Maier and Yukiyasu Kamitani)  (Talk: Tsuchiya “The relationship between top-down attention and conscious awareness”)


Conference abstracts

  1. 1. Tsuchiya N, Cheng J, Elishiav D, Adolphs R, Mamelak A, “Visual consciousness tracked with direct intracranial recording from early visual cortex in humans” (2011) SFN 2011, Washington DC, USA (talk by NT)

  2. 2. Tsuchiya N, Cheng J, Elishiav D, Adolphs R, Mamelak A, “Visual consciousness tracked with direct intracranial recording from early visual cortex in humans” (2011) Neuro 2011, Yokohama, Japan (talk by NT)

  3. 3.Sugiura A, Takemura H, Yamamoto T, Tsuchiya N “A direct interview with a patient who recovered from the persistent vegetative state (2011) ASSC15, Kyoto, Japan

  4. 4.Oizumi M, Takenaka K, Yanagawa T, Amarai S, Tsuchiya N, Fujii N “Modified measure for integrated information theory and its application to 128-channel electrocorticogram data recorded in macaque monkeys” (2011) ASSC15, Kyoto, Japan

  5. 5.Tsuchiya N, Cheng J, Elishiav D, Adolphs R, Mamelak A, “Visual consciousness tracked with direct intracranial recording from primary visual cortex in humans” (2011) COSYNE, Utah, USA (talk by NT)

  6. 6.Serre T, Reddy L, Tsuchyia N, Poggio T, Fabre-Thorpe M,  Koch C “Reading the Mind’s Eye: Decoding Object Information During Mental Imagery from fMRI patterns.” (2009) Vision Science Society, Florida, USA (talk by ST)

  7. 7.Tsuchiya N, Maier A, Logothetis N, Leopold D “Neuronal activity in area MT during perceptual stabilization of ambiguous structure-from-motion” (2009) Vision Science Society, Florida, USA (poster by NT)

  8. 8.Fukuchi M, Tsuchiya N, Koch C “The Focus of Expansion in Optical Flow Fields Acts as a Strong Cue for Visual Attention” (2009) Vision Science Society, Florida, USA (poster by FM

  9. 9.Moradi Tsuchiya Adolphs (2009) “Intact rapid detection of fearful faces in the absence of the amygdala” Vision Science Society, Florida, USA (poster by NT)

  10. 10.Wang Shuo, Ian Krajbich, Ralph Adolphs, Naotsugu Tsuchiya “The role of risk aversion in non-conscious decision-making” (2009) Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, USA (poster by WS)

  11. 11.Dubois J, Tsuchiya N, Adolphs R, Koch C (2008) “fMRI activation to visible and invisible faces and houses using continuous flash suppression with a confidence rating task” Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA (Poster presented by JD)

  12. 12.Reddy L, Serre T, Tsuchyia N, Poggio T, Fabre-Thorpe M,  Koch C “Reading the Mind’s Eye: Decoding Object Information During Mental Imagery from fMRI patterns.” (2008) Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA (Poster presented by LR)

  13. 13.Tsuchiya N, Maier A, Logothetis N, Leopold D (2008) “Decoding kinetic depth using only the temporal structure of spike trains from area MT” Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA (Poster)

  14. 14.    Tsuchiya N, Maier A, Logothetis N, Leopold D (2008) “Decoding monkeyʼs conscious experience during ambiguous and unambiguous motion percept reveals initial consciousness-independent activity and later neuronal correlates of consciousness” Association for Scientific Studies of Consciousness 12, Taipei, Taiwan (Talk)

  15. 15.Felsen C. Tsuchiya N, Moradi F, Adolphs R (2008) “Bilateral amygdala damage does not impair rapid detection of fearful faces” Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA (Poster presented by FC)

  16. 16.Tsuchiya N, Kawasaki H, Howard M, Adolphs R, (2008) “Decoding of human intracranial EEG responses to dynamic facial expressions” Computational System Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, UT. (Poster)

  17. 17.    Tsuchiya N, Kawasaki H, Howard M, Adolphs R, (2007) “Decoding of human intracranial EEG responses to dynamic facial expressions” Society for Neuroscience 37th annual meeting, San Diego, CA. (poster)

  18. 18..Tsuchiya, N. Gilroy, LA. Blake, R. Koch C. (2006). "Dissociating microgenesis of retinal and nonretinal adaptation", Vision Sciences Society, 6th annual meeting. Sarasota, FL. (Talk)

  19. 19.Sasson, N. Piven, J. Hurley, R. Tsuchiya, N. (2006). "Visual scanning and emotion recognition of social scenes in autism", 5th International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR), Montreal, Canada. (Presented by NS)

  20. 20.Tsuchiya N, Kanai R, Koch C (2005). "Awareness and Attention are different: Study of Aftereffects produced by invisible stimulus" Society for Neuroscience, 35th annual meeting. Washington, DC. (Talk)

  21. 21.Tsuchiya N, Kanai R, Koch C (2005). Awareness and Attention are different: Study of Aftereffects produced by invisible stimulus Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 9th annual meeting. Pasadena, CA. (Talk)

  22. 22.Tsuchiya N, Koch C (2005). Continuous Flash Suppression: Strong Dichoptic Masking Can Reduce Negative Afterimage Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Annual Meeting. New York, NY (Poster)

  23. 23.R Kanai, N Tsuchiya, F A J Verstraten (2004). Featural, but not spatial, attention modulates unconscious processing of visual stimuli. European Conference on Visual Perception, Budapest, Hungary. (Presented by RK)

  24. 24.Tsuchiya N, Koch C (2004). Continuous flash suppression. Vision Sciences Society, 4th annual meeting. Sarasota, FL. (Talk by NT)

  25. 25.Tsuchiya N, Carter RM, Koch C (2004). Awareness and Fear Conditioning ;Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA. (Poster by NT)

  26. 26.Tsuchiya N, Rees G, Koch C, Braun J (2001). Attentional Modulation of component motion processing. Society for Neuroscience 31st annual meeting, San Diego, CA. (Poster by NT)

  27. 27.Tsuchiya N, Rees G, Braun J, Koch C (2001). Attentional Modulation of visual motion perception using novel wavelet stimuli. Vision Sciences Society, 1st annual meeting. Sarasota, FL. Journal of Vision, Vol 1, Num 3, Abstract 84, Page 84a (Poster by NT)


Invited talks

  1. 1.Monash Medical Centre, Australia (2012) - Dominic Thyagarajan

  2. 2.University of Queensland, Australia (2012) - Jason Mattingley

  3. 3.Southern Cross University, Australia (2012) - Robert O’Shea

  4. 4.Austin Hospital, Australia (2012) - John Archer

  5. 5.Harvard (2011) -- Michael Cohen & Ken Nakayama

  6. 6.MIT (2011) -- Ruth Rosenholtz

  7. 7.Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (2011)-- Noriko Yamagishi & Mitsuo Kawato 

  8. 8.University of Wisconsin, Madison (2011) -- Guilio Tononi

  9. 9.University of Melbourne (2011) - Olivia Carter

  10. 10.Caltech (2011) -- Christof Koch

  11. 11.Stanford University (2011) - Josef Parvizi

  12. 12. UC Berkeley (2011) - Bob Knight

  13. 13. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging -- The International Conference on Perception and Cognition in Electronic Media (2011), San Francisco - Bernice Rogowitz

  14. 14. RIKEN Institute, Japan (2010) - Naotaka Fuji

  15. 15. Crosstalk with young researchers at Neuro2010, Japan (2010) - Hiromasa Takemura

  16. 16. ASSC14, Toronto, Canada (2010) - symposium

  17. 17. Toulouse, France (2009) - Rufin VanRullen

  18. 18. Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France (2009) - Sid Kouider

  19. 19. Rovereto Attention Workshop -- attention and awareness (2009), Italy - workshop

  20. 20. University of Tokyo (2009) - Ikura Murakami

  21. 21. Nigata University (2009) - Isao Hasegawa

  22. 22. RIKEN institute (2009) - Naotaka Fujii

  23. 23. Tamagawa University, Japan (2007) - Masamichi Sakagami

  24. 24. [conference] Towards a science of consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, USA - symposium

  25. 25. SONY, Japan (2008) - Masaki Fukuchi

  26. 26. National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan (2008) - Masatoshi Yoshida & Tadashi Isa

  27. 27. RIKEN Institute, Japan (2008) - Kan Cheng

  28. 28. NTT communication, Japan (2008) - Shin’ya Nishida

  29. 29. Kyoto University, Japan (2008) - Dai Watanabe, Jun Saiki

  30. 30. [conference] Neural Mechanisms of the Social Mind (Dec 6-8), Japan - workshop

  31. 31. NIH, Washington D.C., USA (2007) - Alex Maier & David Leopold

  32. 32. Harvard University, MA, USA (2006) - Olivia Carter & Leila Reddy

  33. 33. Boston University, MA, USA (2006) - Takeo Watanabe

  34. 34. RIKEN Institute, Japan (2005) - Mineko Kengaku

  35. 35. Tamagawa University, Japan (2005) - Masamichi Sakagami

  36. 36. Vanderbilt University, TN, USA (2005) - Randolph Blake

  37. 37. Rutgers University, NJ, USA (2005) - Kamran Diba

  38. 38. University of Magdeburg, Germany (2004) - Jochen Braun


Summer school/Workshop

Neuroinformatics, Aug 12-27, 2006, MBL, Woods Hole, MA

EEGLAB, Nov 8-10, 2007, UCSD, San Diego, CA


Teaching

Mentoring

1.Bobby Rohrkemper (2004)

2.Dania Adamuszek (2004)

3.Peter Sadowski (2006)

4.Zhou Ting (2006)

5.Julien Dubois (2006-2008)

6.Csilla Felsen (2007-2008)

7.Shima Hajimirza (2007)

8.Wang Suo (2008-2010)

9.Elnaz Nouri (2009)

  1. 10.Gecia Bravo Hermsdorff (2010)


Teaching/Tutorial/Outreach

  1. 1.Speaker at Comprehensive Brain Science Network, 2011, Kobe, Japan

  2. 2.Introduction for intracranial recordings in human, 2011, University of Tokyo

  3. 3.Introduction for intracranial recordings in human, 2011, University of Melbourne 

  4. 4.Lecture at Autumn School for Computational Neuroscience (ASCONE) 2010, Sendai, Japan

  5. 5. Crosstalk with young researchers at Neuro2010, Japan (Sep 1, 2010)

  6. 6. Analysis of local field potential at Tamagawa University (June, 2009)

  7. 7. CNS/SS 252: Experimental Design and Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience (Lecture on intracranial recordings in humans) (Mar 10, 2008)

  8. 8. CNS120: Neural basis of consciousness (Lecture on Attention and Awareness) (Apr 19, 2006)

  9. 9. 3-hour tutorials on attention and consciousness (2006, 2007, 2010 at ASSC & 2008 at Tuscon)


Teaching assistant

CNS120: Neural basis of consciousness (Koch) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005


Courses (GPA 3.73/4 as of 2004 Mar)

2005 spring: Ss 255 Topics in Emotion and Social Cognition (Ralph Adolphs)

2005 winter: Bi 218 Neural circuits for emotional behaviors: sensory input, central processing and neurobiology of affect (David Andersen)

2002 winter: CNS 172 Clinical Neuropsychology (Bogen)

2001 fall, 2002 winter: ACM 100ab Introductory Method of Applied Mathematics (Complex Analysis, ODE and introduction of PDE) (Pierce)

2001 fall: CS/EE/Ma 129 Information & Complexity (Abu-Mostafa)

2001 spring: Bi 260 How to Present a Seminar (Laurent, Schuman)

2001 winter: EE141 Swarm Intelligence (Goodman)

2001 winter: CNS/Bi 120 Neuronal Basis of Consciousness (Koch)

2000 fall: Bio/CNS 150 Neurobiology (Laurent, Schuman, Zinn)

2000 fall: CS/CNS/EE156 Learning Systems (Abu-Mostafa)

2000 fall: EE32a Linear Time Invariant System (Abu-Mostafa)

2000 fall: CNS/Bi/Ph/CS 187 Neural Computation (Winfree)