2008 First half: April-September 2008
1st(#165) :2008/4/11(Fri): Journal Club
- Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness.
Elizabeth W. Dunn, Lara B. Aknin, and Michael I. Norton
Science 319, 1687-1688. (2008) [Abstract]
Report K. Mogi
- Chimpanzees Are Rational Maximizers in an Ultimatum Game
Keith Jensen, Josep Call, and Michael Tomasello
Science 318, 107-109. (2007) [Abstract]
Report T. Sekine
- Social Comparison Affects Reward-Related Brain Activity in the Human Ventral Striatum
K. Fliessbach, B. Weber, P. Trautner, T. Dohmen, U. Sunde, C. E. Elger, and A. Falk
Science 318, 1305-1308. (2007) [Abstract]
Report T. Sekine
- The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education, Chap. 5: the literate brain
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, and Uta Frith
Blackwell Publishing. (2005) [Link]
Report M. Toshima
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
2nd(#166) :2008/4/24(Thu): Journal Club
- Knowledge of Visual Attributes in the Right Hemisphere
Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Ronald Peeters, Katrien Fannes, and Rik Vandenberghe
Nature Neuroscience 9, 964-970. (2006) [Abstract]
Report E. Hoshino
- Preparing and Motivating Behavior Outside of Awareness
Henk Aarts, Ruud Custers, and Hans Marien
Science 319, 1639. (2008) [Abstract]
Report H. Takagawa
- Responses to Lightness Variations in Early Human Visual Cortex
Huseyin Boyaci, Fang Fang, Scott O. Murray, and Daniel Kersten
Current Biology 17(11), 989-993. (2007) [Abstract]
Report Q. Zhang
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
3rd(#167) :2008/5/8(Thu): Trip Report
- Wonderful United Kingdom
Report F. Taya
- The Savant Universe
Reference: Inside the Mind of a Savant
Darold A. Treffert and Daniel D. Christensen
Scientific American 293(6), 108-113. (2005) [PDF]
Report K. Mogi
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog, THE QUALIA JOURNAL
4th(#168) :2008/5/9(Fri): Joint Workshop: Communication and Decision Making
Joint Workshop collaborated with Oomori lab. and Okada lab. held at Tamagawa University.
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
5th & 6th(#169&170) :2008/5/12-13(Mon&Tue): Discussion
We discussed for the conferences, annual meetings of ASSC and/or SfN.
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog (5/13), (5/14)
7th(#171) :2008/5/14(Fri): Journal Club & Progress Report
- Using Sentence and Picture Clues to Solve Verbal Insight Problems
Patricia M. Schwert
Creativity Research Journal 19(2 & 3), 293-306. (2007) [Abstract], [PDF]
Report M. Kato
- The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates
Justin N. Wood, David D. Glynn, Brenda C. Phillips, Marc D. Hauser
Science 317, 1402-1405. (2007) [Abstract], [PDF]
Report A. Onzo
- Neural dynamics in human imitation revealed by ERP surface topography
Fukushima, Hirokata; Hirai, Masahiro; Arita, Akiko; Kamewari, Kazunori; Hiraki, Kazuo
Neuroreport 15(13), 2129-2132. (2004) [Abstract]
Progress Report T. Sudo
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
8th(#172) :2008/5/21(Wed): Progress Report & Journal Club
- Review: "One-shot" learning
Progress Report T. Ishikawa
- Neural measures reveal individual differences in controlling access to working memory
Edward K. Vogel, Andrew W. McCollough and Maro G. Machizawa
Nature 438, 500-503. (2005) [Abstract]
Report F. Taya
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
9th(#173) :2008/5/26(Mon): Journal Club
- Episodic-Like Memory in Rats: Is It Based on When or How Long Ago?
William A. Roberts, Miranda C. Feeney, Krista MacPherson, Mark Petter,
Neil McMillan, Evanya Musolino, and Patricia M. Schwert
Science 320, 113-115. (2007) [Abstract]
Report F. Tanabe
- Winners don't punish
Anna Dreber, David G. Rand, Drew Fudenberg, and Martin A. Nowak
Nature 452, 348-351. (2008) [Abstract]
Report K. Mogi
- Compatibilism and Scepticism
In "Free Will: A Very Short Introduction"
Thomas Pink
Oxford University Press. (2004) [Link]
Report K. Mogi
- Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain
Chun Siong Soon, Marcel Brass, Hans-Jochen Heinze, and John-Dylan Haynes
Nature Neuroscience 11, 543-545. (2008) [Abstract]
Report S. Nozawa
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
10th & 11th(#174&175) :2008/6/13, 16(Fri&Mon): Progress report & Discussion
We prepared to make presentations at the upcoming conference, ASSC and discussed about ongoing projects.
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
[Conference] :June 19-22, 2008: ASSC 12
Some of us tripped to Taipei for the conference presentation at 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
Related Link: ASSC 12
12th(#176) :2008/6/27(Fri): Brain Club
Christof Koch and Naotsugu Tsuchiya at Caltech visited our laboratory. Dr. Koch gave us exciting talk. Some of our lab. members also gave them presentation about intersting results of experiments and we disscussed these findings animatedly.
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
13th(#177) :2008/7/1(Tue): Joint Workshop at NCNP
Joint Workshop collaborated with Honda lab. of Department of Cortical Function Disorders held at National Institute of Neuroscience.
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
14th(#178) :2008/7/18(Fri): Journal Club
- Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex
J. Jay Todd and René Marois
Nature 428, 751-754. (2004) [Abstract], [PDF]
Report E. Hoshino
- Hemispheric specialization of human inferior temporal cortex during coarse-to-fine and fine-to-coarse analysis of natural visual scenes
Peyrin C, Schwartz S, Seghier M, Michel C, Landis T, and Vuilleumier P.
Neuroimage 28(2), 464-73. (2005) [Abstract], [Poster]
Report Q. Zhang
15th(#179) :2008/7/25(Fri): Journal Club
- Measuring consciousness: relating behavioural and neurophysiological approaches
Seth AK, Dienes Z, Cleeremans A, and Overgaard M, Pessoa L.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(8), 314-321. (2008) [Abstract]
Report T. Yanagawa
- Self in Time: Imagined Self-Location Influences Neural Activity Related to Mental Time Travel
Shahar Arzy, Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, and Olaf Blanke
Journal of Neuroscience 28(25), 6502-6507. (2008) [Abstract]
Report T. Herai
[Special Meeting] :2008/7/26(Sat): Garden Party at Ueno
We spent a summer evening in a beer garden by the Shinobazu-no-ike(Lotus Pond) at Ueno to enjoy the cool of the evening. We argued heatedly about the contemporary state of neural science, art, and philosophy....
16th(#180) :2008/8/1(Fri): Journal Club
- Emotional Contagion Revisited: Effects of Social Comparison and Expressive Style on Mood Convergence
Ellen S. Sullins
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 17(2), 166-174. (1991) [Abstract]
Report H. Takagawa
- The Right and the Good: Distributive Justice and Neural Encoding of Equity and Efficiency
Ming Hsu, Cédric Anen, and Steven R. Quartz
Science 320, 1092-1095. (2008) [Abstract]
Report T. Sekine
17th(#181) :2008/8/8(Fri): Journal Club
- Unconscious Masked Priming Depends on Temporal Attention
Lionel Naccache, Elise Blandin, and Stanislas Dehaene
Psychological Science 13(5), 416-424. (2002) [Abstract]
Report M. Kato
- The natural order of events: How speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Wing Chee So, Aslı Özyürek and Carolyn Mylander
PNAS 105(27), 9163-9168. (2008) [Abstract]
Report M. Toshima
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
18th(#182) :2008/8/29(Fri): Journal Club
- A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage
Ralph Adolphs, Frederic Gosselin, Tony W. Buchanan, Daniel Tranel, Philippe Schyns and Antonio R. Damasio
Nature 433, 68-72. (2005) [Abstract]
Report T. Takano (for the first time!)
- How We See Ourselves and How We See Others
Emily Pronin
Science 320, 1177-1180. (2008) [Abstract]
Report A. Onzo
- Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games
Francisco C. Santos1, Marta D. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
Nature 454, 213-216. (2008) [Abstract]
Report K. Mogi
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
19th(#183) :2008/9/1(Mon): Journal Club
- Volitional control of neural activity: implications for brain-computer interfaces
Eberhard E Fetz
Journal of Physiology 579(3), 571-579. (2007) [Abstract]
Report S. Nozawa
- A Hierarchy of Temporal Receptive Windows in Human Cortex
Uri Hasson, Eunice Yang, Ignacio Vallines, David J. Heeger, and Nava Rubin
Journal of Neuroscience 28(10), 2539-2550. (2008) [Abstract]
Report T. Herai
- Egalitarianism in young children
Ernst Fehr, Helen Bernhard and Bettina Rockenbach
Nature 454, 1079-1083. (2008) [Abstract]
Report F. Taya
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
20th(#184) :2008/9/10(Wed): Journal Club & Progress Report
- Graded recall success: an event-related fMRI comparison of tip of the tongue and feeling of knowing
Anat Marila, Jon S. Simonsa, Josh J. Weavera and Daniel L. Schacter
NeuroImage 24(4), 1130-1138. (2005) [Abstract]
Report T. Ishikawa
- The Critical Importance of Retrieval for Learning
Jeffrey D. Karpicke and Henry L. Roediger, III
Science 319, 966-968. (2008) [Abstract]
Report F. Tanabe
T. Takano and Q. Zhang reported their ongoing results and discussed the future research.
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
21st(#185) :2008/9/12(Fri): Journal Club
- Internal brain state regulates membrane potential synchrony in barrel cortex of behaving mice
James F. A. Poulet and Carl C. H. Petersen
Nature 454, 881-885. (2008) [Abstract]
Report T. Yanagawa
- The role of the orbitofrontal cortex in the pursuit of happiness and more specific rewards
Kathryn A. Burke, Theresa M. Franz, Danielle N. Miller and Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Nature 454, 340-344. (2008) [Abstract]
Report Q. Zhang
- Persistence of visual memory for scenes
David Melcher
Nature 412, 401. (2001) [Abstract]
Report E. Hoshino
- Analysis of a spatial orientation memory in Drosophila
Kirsa Neuser, Tilman Triphan, Markus Mronz, Burkhard Poeck and Roland Strauss
Nature 453, 1244-1247. (2008) [Abstract]
Report E. Hoshino
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
22nd(#186) :2008/9/19(Fri): Journal Club
- Imitative Responses and Verbally Reported Emotional Contagion from Spontaneous, Unconscious to Emotionally Regulated, Conscious Information-processing Levels
Marianne Sonnby-Borgström, Peter Jönsson and Owe Svensson
Neuro-Psychoanalysis 10, 81-98. (2008) [Abstract]
Report H. Takagawa
Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog
23rd(#187) :2008/9/24(Wed): Discussion
We reported on progress and discussed research planning or results of ongoing study.
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