2026
Readout Representation: Redefining Neural Codes by Input Recovery
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
doi:10.48550/arXiv.2510.12228
Decoding Shitsukan in the brain
In: Shitsukan -- Understanding and Manipulating Material and Quality Perception (Nishida, S. & Nishino, K., Eds.), Springer Nature, 111–130.
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Moving intentions from brains to machines
Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
doi:10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.003
2025
Spurious reconstruction from brain activity
Neural Networks, 190, 107515.
doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2025.107515
Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation
Annual Review of Vision Science, 11, 611–636.
doi:10.1146/annurev-vision-110423-023616
Natural sounds can be reconstructed from human neuroimaging data using deep neural network representation
PLOS Biology, 23(7), e3003293.
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3003293
Inter-individual and inter-site neural code conversion without shared stimuli
Nature Computational Science, 5(7), 534–546.
doi:10.1038/s43588-025-00826-5
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Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima (Neural Networks, 2024)
arXiv.
doi:10.48550/arXiv.2511.07960
Readout Representation: Redefining Neural Codes by Input Recovery
arXiv.
doi:10.48550/arXiv.2510.12228
Overcoming Output Dimension Collapse: When Sparsity Enables Zero-shot Brain-to-Image Reconstruction at Small Data Scales
arXiv.
doi:10.48550/arXiv.2509.15832
Japanese / 日本語
2024
How emotion is experienced and expressed in multiple cultures: A large-scale experiment
Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1350631.
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Preprints
Image retrieval based on closed-loop visual-semantic neural decoding
bioRxiv.
doi:10.1101/2024.08.05.606113
2023
Reconstructing visual illusory experiences from human brain activity
Science Advances, 9(46), eadj3906.
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Inter-individual neural code conversion without paired stimuli
CCN 2023.
doi:10.32470/ccn.2023.1320-0
Inter-individual deep image reconstruction via hierarchical neural code conversion
NeuroImage, 271, 120007.
doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120007
Japanese / 日本語
2022
Multiple types of navigational information are independently encoded in the population activities of the dentate gyrus neurons
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(32), e2106830119.
doi:10.1073/pnas.2106830119
Neurofeedback training without explicit phantom hand movements and hand-like visual feedback to modulate pain: A randomized crossover feasibility trial
The Journal of Pain, S1526590022003686.
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Decoding distributed oscillatory signals driven by memory and perception in the prefrontal cortex
Cell Reports, 39(2), 110676.
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Voluntary control of semantic neural representations by imagery with conflicting visual stimulation
Communications Biology, 5(1), 1–15.
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Attention modulates neural representation to render reconstructions according to subjective appearance
Communications Biology, 5, 34.
doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02975-5
Japanese / 日本語
カンデル神経科学 第2版
メディカル・サイエンス・インターナショナル.
2021
Natural and artificial intelligence: A brief introduction to the interplay between AI and neuroscience research
Neural Networks, 144, 218–233.
doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2021.09.018
Brain hierarchy score: Which deep neural networks are hierarchically brain-like?
iScience, 24(9), 103013.
doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.103013
fMRI lag structure during waking up from early sleep stages
Cortex, 142, 94–103.
doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2021.06.005
2020
BCI training to move a virtual hand reduces phantom limb pain: A randomized crossover trial
Neurology, 95(4), e417–e426.
doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000009858
The neural representation of visually evoked emotion is high-dimensional, categorical, and distributed across transmodal brain regions
iScience, 23(5), 101060.
doi:10.1016/j.isci.2020.101060
2019
Peripheral Blood Metabolome Predicts Mood Change-Related Activity in Mouse Model of Bipolar Disorder
Molecular Brain, 12(1), 107.
doi:10.1186/s13041-019-0527-3
End-to-end deep image reconstruction from human brain activity
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 13, 21.
doi:10.3389/fncom.2019.00021
Characterization of deep neural network features by decodability from human brain activity
Scientific Data, 6, 190012.
doi:10.1038/sdata.2019.12
Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity
PLoS Computational Biology, 15(1), e1006633.
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Using a BCI Prosthetic Hand to Control Phantom Limb Pain
In: Brain-Computer Interface Research: A State-of-the-Art Summary 7 (Guger, C., Mrachacz-Kersting, N., & Allison, B. Z., Eds.), Springer, 43–52.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05668-1_4
Japanese / 日本語
2018
What you saw is what you will hear: Two new illusions with audiovisual postdictive effects
PLoS ONE, 13(10), e0204217.
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Decoding Visual Stimulus in Semantic Space from Electrocorticography Signals
IEEE SMC 2018.
doi:10.1109/SMC.2018.00027
MEG-BMI to control phantom limb pain
Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica, 58(8), 327–333.
doi:10.2176/nmc.st.2018-0099
Sparse ordinal logistic regression and its application to brain decoding
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 12, 51.
doi:10.3389/fninf.2018.00051
Training in use of brain–machine interface-controlled robotic hand improves accuracy decoding two types of hand movements
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 478.
doi:10.3389/fnins.2018.00478
Sharpening of hierarchical visual feature representations of blurred images
eNeuro, 5(3), ENEURO.0443-17.2018.
doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0443-17.2018
Heterogeneous redistribution of facial subcategory information within and outside the face-selective domain in primate inferior temporal cortex
Cerebral Cortex, 28(4), 1416–1431.
doi:10.1093/cercor/bhx339
Induction of Cortical Plasticity Reveals the Mechanism of the Phantom Limb Pain and Develops Novel Treatment
PAIN RESEARCH, 33(1), 26-31.
doi:10.11154/pain.33.26
2017
Generic decoding of seen and imagined objects using hierarchical visual features
Nature Communications, 8, 15037.
doi:10.1038/ncomms15037
Position Information Encoded by Population Activity in Hierarchical Visual Areas
eNeuro, 4(2), ENEURO.0268-16.2017.
doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0268-16.2017
Selective Suppression of Local Circuits during Movement Preparation in the Mouse Motor Cortex
Cell Reports, 18(11), 2676–2686.
doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2017.02.043
Hierarchical neural representation of dreamed objects revealed by brain decoding with deep neural network features
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 11, 4.
doi:10.3389/fncom.2017.00004
2016
Induced Sensorimotor Brain Plasticity Controls Pain in Phantom Limb Patients
Nature Communications, 7, 13209.
doi:10.1038/ncomms13209
Associative-Memory Representations Emerge as Shared Spatial Patterns of Theta Activity Spanning the Primate Temporal Cortex
Nature Communications, 7(1), 11827.
doi:10.1038/ncomms11827
Circadian gene circuitry predicts hyperactive behavior in a mood disorder mouse model
Cell Reports, 14(12), 2784–2796.
doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2016.02.067
BrainLiner: A Neuroinformatics Platform for Sharing Time-Aligned Brain-Behavior Data
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 10.
doi:10.3389/fninf.2016.00003
Real-Time Control of a Neuroprosthetic Hand by Magnetoencephalographic Signals from Paralysed Patients
Scientific Reports, 6, 21781.
doi:10.1038/srep21781
Japanese / 日本語
ブレインデコーディング
Clinical Neuroscience, 34(2), 149–154.
ヒトの脳を読む新しいアプローチ
細胞工学, 34–7, 634–637.
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2015
Categorical Discrimination of Human Body Parts by Magnetoencephalography
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9.
doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00609
Closed-loop control of a neuroprosthetic hand by magnetoencephalographic signals
PLoS ONE, 10(7), e0131547.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131547
Inter-subject neural code converter for visual image representation
NeuroImage, 113, 289–297.
doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.059
Alternating Zones Selective to Faces and Written Words in the Human Ventral Occipitotemporal Cortex
Cerebral Cortex, 25(5), 1265-1277.
doi:10.1093/cercor/bht319
Japanese / 日本語
Decode of the Brain――ヒトの脳を読む新しいアプローチ
細胞工学, 34(7), 634–637.
書評:中村文則『教団X』
文藝, 新春特大号, 544.
夢内容のブレイン・デコーディング――夢の機能の解明に向けて
実験医学, 33(13), 2077–2082.
2014
Decoding visual object categories from temporal correlations of ECoG signals
NeuroImage, 90, 74–83.
doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.020
Japanese / 日本語
脳活動から探る夢の内容
Clinical Neuroscience, 32(4), 461–469.
脳活動から心を可視化する
光学, 43(3), 104–110.
脳の信号を解読する技術――脳情報デコーディング
In: BMI (Brain-Machine Interface)の現状と展望(吉峰俊樹, 川人光男 編), 医歯薬出版, 20–25.
2013
Neural decoding of visual imagery during sleep
Science, 340(6132), 639–642.
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Modular encoding and decoding models derived from Bayesian canonical correlation analysis
Neural Computation, 25(4), 979–1005.
doi:10.1162/NECO_a_00423
Japanese / 日本語
2012
Relationship between BOLD amplitude and pattern classification of orientation-selective activity in the human visual cortex
NeuroImage, 63(3), 1212-1222.
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Regulation of Motor Representation by Phase-Amplitude Coupling in the Sensorimotor Cortex
Journal of Neuroscience, 32(44), 15467-15475.
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Decoding Reveals Plasticity in V3A as a Result of Motion Perceptual Learning
PLoS ONE, 7(8), e44003.
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Electrocorticographic control of a prosthetic arm in paralyzed patients
Annals of Neurology, 71(3), 353-361.
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Motor restoration based on the brain machine interface using brain surface electrodes: Real time robot control and a fully-implantable wireless system
Advanced Robotics, 26(3–4), 399–408.
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Decoding early visual representations from fMRI ensemble responses
In: Visual Population Codes: Toward a Common Multivariate Framework for Cell Recording and Functional Imaging (Kriegeskorte, N. & Kreiman, G., Eds.), MIT Press, 101–132.
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2011
Real-time control of a prosthetic hand using human electrocorticography signals
Journal of Neurosurgery, 114(6), 1715–1722.
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Simultaneous recording of ECoG and intracortical neuronal activity using a flexible multichannel electrode-mesh in visual cortex
NeuroImage, 54(1), 203–212.
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Japanese / 日本語
fMRI活動パターンからの主観的精神状態のデコーディング
Brain and Nerve, 63(12), 1331-1338.
Brain-Machine Interface の現状と将来の展望
Brain and Nerve, 63(3), 241-246.
2010
Spatial smoothing hurts localization but not information: Pitfalls for brain mappers
NeuroImage, 49(3), 1949-1952.
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Japanese / 日本語
計算論的アプローチ
In: イラストレクチャー認知神経科学(村上郁也 編), オーム社.
脳情報の記録と判読――非侵襲脳計測と神経デコーディング
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Neural art appraisal of painter: Dali or Picasso?
Neuroreport, 20(18), 1630-3.
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Neural decoding using gyral and intrasulcal electrocorticograms
NeuroImage, 45(4), 1099-1106.
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Classification of movement-related single-trial MEG data using adaptive spatial filter
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Estimating image bases for visual image reconstruction from human brain activity
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脳と機械をつなぐ技術
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Visual image reconstruction from human brain activity using a combination of multiscale local image decoders
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Sparse estimation automatically selects voxels relevant for the decoding of fMRI activity patterns
NeuroImage, 42(4), 1414–1429.
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Mechanistic analysis of motor cortex stimulation for phantom limb pain
PAIN RESEARCH, 23(1), 27–34.
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Localization and extraction of brain activity using generalized eigenvalue decomposition
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Decoding Syllables from Human fMRI Activity
ICONIP 2007, Part II, LNCS 4985, 979-986.
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マインド・リーディングの原理と倫理
脳21, 11, 28–32.
2007
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脳信号復号化技術の可能性について
電子情報通信学会総合大会.
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神経デコーディングと脳を読みつなぐ技術の未来
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多重解像度局所画像復号器の組み合わせによる視覚像の再構成
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ベイズで読み解く知覚世界
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Decoding seen and attended motion directions from activity in the human visual cortex
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マインド・リーディングは可能か
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非侵襲的脳情報復号化の可能性
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Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain
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Modulations of visual perception by sound
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Effects of single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on functional brain activity: A combined event-related TMS and evoked potential study
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Time-locked perceptual fading induced by visual transients
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Global yet early processing of visual surfaces
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Sound alters visual evoked potentials in humans
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Afterimage of perceptually filled-in surface
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