Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University


The Hakubi Project,
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University



Japanese version
Last Update: August 21, 2014


Staff
Wataru Sato, Associate Professor Personal HP (Inuyama/Kyoto lab)
Reiko Sawada , Researcher (Kyoto lab)
Sylwia Julia Hyniewska, Researcher (Kyoto lab)
Miki Yokoyama, Secretarial Assistant (Inuyama lab)

Research
In this project, we explore the psychological mechanisms for the social interaction via faces in primates.
We synthetically utilize the methodologies of cognitive psychology, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, developmental psychiatry, and comparative psychology.

Publications
Sato, W.*, Kubota, T.*, & Toichi, M. (* equal contributors) (in press). Enhanced subliminal emotional responses to dynamic facial expressions. Frontiers in Psychology.
Uono, S., Sato, W., & Kochiyama, T. (in press). Commonalities and differences in the spatiotemporal neural dynamics associated with automatic attentional shifts induced by gaze and arrows. Neuroscience Research.
Sato, W.*, Kochiyama, T.*, Uono, S., Matsuda, K., Usui, K., Inoue, Y., & Toichi, M. (* equal contributors) (in press). Rapid, high-frequency, and theta-coupled gamma oscillations in the inferior occipital gyrus during face processing. Cortex.
Uono, S., Sato, W., & Toichi, M. (2014). Reduced representational momentum for subtle dynamic facial expressions in individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8, 1090-1099.
Sawada, R., Sato, W., Uono, S., Kochiyama, T., & Toichi, M. (2014). Electrophysiological correlates of the efficient detection of emotional facial expressions. Brain Research, 1560, 60-72.
Sawada, R., Sato, W., Kochiyama, T., Uono, S., Kubota, Y., Yoshimura, S., & Toichi, M. (2014). Sex differences in the rapid detection of emotional facial expressions. PLoS One, 9, e94747: 1-7.
Sato, W., Uono, S., & Toichi, M. (2013). Atypical recognition of dynamic changes in facial expressions in autism spectrum disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 7, 906-912.
Sato, W., Kochiyama, T., Uono, S., Matsuda, K., Usui, K., Inoue, Y., & Toichi, M. (2013). Rapid and multiple-stage activation of the human amygdala for processing facial signals. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 6, e24562: 1-5.
Sato, W., Fujimura, T., Kochiyama, T., & Suzuki, N. (2013). Relationships among facial mimicry, emotional experience, and emotion recognition. PLoS One, 8, e57889: 1-8.
Uono, S., Sato, W., & Toichi, M. (2013). Common and unique impairments in facial-expression recognition in pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified and Asperger's disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 7, 361-368.
Sato, W., & Yoshikawa, S. (2013). Recognition memory for faces and scenes. Journal of General Psychology, 140, 1-15.
Kitada, R., Okamoto, Y., Sasaki, A. T., Kochiyama, T., Miyahara, M., Lederman, S. J., & Sadato, N. (2013) Early visual experience and the recognition of basic facial expressions: Involvement of the middle temporal and inferior frontal gyri during haptic identification by the early blind. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 7: 1-15.
Sato, W.*, Toichi, M.*, Uono, S., & Kochiyama, T. (* equal contributors) (2012). Impaired social brain network for processing dynamic facial expressions in autism spectrum disorders. BMC Neuroscience, 13, 99: 1-17.
Sato, W., Kochiyama, T., Uono, S., Matsuda, K., Usui, K., Inoue, Y., & Toichi, M. (2012). Temporal profile of amygdala gamma oscillations in response to faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 1420-1433.
Fujimura, T., Sato, W., & Okanoya, K. (2012). Subcategories of positive emotion. Psychologia, 55, 1-8.
Okada, T., Sato, W., Kubota, Y., Toichi, M., & Murai, T. (2012). Right hemispheric dominance and interhemispheric cooperation in reflexive attentional shift by gaze. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 66, 97-104.
Shimada, Y., Nishimoto, H., Kochiyama, T., Fujimoto, I., Mano, H., Masaki, S., & Murase, K. (2012) A technique to reduce motion artifact for externally triggered cine-MRI(EC-MRI) based on detecting the onset of the articulated word with spectral analysis. Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences, 11, 273-282.
Sasaki, A. T., Kochiyama, T., Sugiura, M., Tanabe, H. C., & Sadato, N. (2012) Neural networks for action representation: A functional magnetic-resonance imaging and dynamic causal modeling study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 236: 1-17.
Aizawa, E., Sato, Y., Kochiyama, T., Saito, N., Izumiyama, M., Morishita, J., Kanazawa, M., Shima, K., Mushiake, H., Hongo, M., & Fukudo, S. (2012) Altered cognitive function of prefrontal cortex during errror feedback in patients with irritable bowel syndrome, based on fMRI and dynamic causal modeling. Gastroenterology, 143, 1188-1198.
Sato, W., Kochiyama, T., Uono, S., Matsuda, K., Usui, K., Inoue, Y., & Toichi, M. (2011). Rapid amygdala gamma oscillations in response to eye gaze. PLoS One, 6, e28188: 1-6.
Uono, S., Sato, W., & Toichi, M. (2011). The specific impairment of fearful expression recognition and its atypical development in pervasive developmental disorder. Social Neuroscience, 6, 452-463.
Sato, W., Kochiyama, T., & Yoshikawa, S. (2011). The inversion effect for neutral and emotional facial expressions on amygdala activity. Brain Research, 1378, 84-90.
Sato, W., Kochiyama, T., Uono, S., Matsuda, K., Usui, K., Inoue, Y., & Toichi, M. (2011). Rapid amygdala gamma oscillations in response to fearful facial expressions. Neuropsychologia, 49, 612-617.
Sato, W., Uono, S., Okada, T., & Toichi, M. (2010). Impairment of unconscious, but not conscious, gaze-triggered attention orienting in Asperger's disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 4, 782-786.
Fujimura, T., Sato, W., & Suzuki, N. (2010). Facial expression arousal level modulates facial mimicry. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 76, 88-92.
Sato, W., Kochiyama, T., Uono, S., & Yoshikawa, S. (2010). Automatic attentional shifts by gaze, gestures, and symbols. Psychologia, 53, 27-35.

Address
Inuyama lab: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kanrin, Inuyama, Aichi 484-8506, Japan.
Kyoto lab: Maskawa Building for Education and Research 406, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.

(liaison: SATO Wataru )