The Brain Club Archive

2014 First half: April 2014 - September 2014

1st(#412) :2014/04/01(Tue): Cherry Blossom Party

We enjoyed the annual cherry blossom party at Aoyama.

2nd(#413) :2014/04/03(Thu): Luncheon Meeting

We hold a lunchon brainstorming meeting at Shinagawa.

3rd(#414) :2014/04/11(Fri): Guest Talk & Research Talk

Fumihiko Taya at NUS visited our laboratory and gave us a nice presentation.
All member of Mogi lab gave a short talk about the ongoing work of each.

4th(#415) :2014/04/13(Sun)-14(Mon): Hot Spring Trip

We went on a hot spring trip to Atami. We enjoyed eating a lot of crabs and taking a hot spring bath.

5th(#416) :2014/04/18(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• The effects of rehearsal on the functional neuroanatomy of episodic autobiographical and semantic remembering: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.
  Svoboda E, Levine B.
  J Neurosci. 29(10):3073-82. (2009) [Abstract]
  Report A. Onzo

• Understanding Popularity in the Peer System.
  Cillessen AHN, Rose AJ.
  Current Directions in Psychological Science 14(2):102-105. (2005) [Abstract]
  Report A. Onzo

• Patients With Left Spatial Neglect Also Neglect the “Left Side” of Time.
  Saj A, Fuhrman O, Vuilleumier P, Boroditsky L.
  Psychological Science 25(1):207-214. (2014) [Abstract]
  Report T. Herai

• Cognitive motor control: spatial and temporal aspects.
  Georgopoulos AP.
  Curr Opin Neurobiol. 12(6):678-83. (2002) [Abstract]
  Research Talk T. Sudo

6th(#417) :2014/05/02(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Allocentric visual cues influence mental transformation of bodies.
  Preuss N, Harris LR, Mast FW.
  J Vis. 13(12):14. (2013) [Abstract]
  Report T. Sudo

• Memory and metamemory considerations in the training of human beings.
  Bjork RA.
  In Metcalfe J. and Shimamura A. (Eds.), Metacognition: Knowing about knowing. pp.185-205, (1994) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Full text]
  Report K. Mogi

• Visualization.
  Research Talk T. Ishikawa

7th(#418) :2014/05/09(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Creativity in the wild: improving creative reasoning through immersion in natural settings.
  Atchley RA, Strayer DL, Atchley P.
  PLoS One 7(12):e51474. (2012) [Full text]
  Report T. Ishikawa

• Conceptualization and Operationalization of the Experimental Design.
  Report T. Takano

• Core systems of number.
  Feigenson L, Dehaene S, Spelke E.
  Trends Cogn Sci. 8(7):307-14. (2004) [Abstract]
  Research Talk A. Onzo

• Amygdala damage impairs emotional memory for gist but not details of complex stimuli.
  Adolphs R, Tranel D, Buchanan TW.
  Nat Neurosci. 8(4):512-8. (2005) [Abstract]
  Research Talk A. Onzo

8th(#419) :2014/06/03(Tue): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Very happy people.
  Diener E, Seligman ME.
  Psychol Sci. 13(1):81-4. (2002) [Abstract] [Full text]
  Report K. Mogi

• The medial temporal lobe supports conceptual implicit memory.
  Wang WC, Lazzara MM, Ranganath C, Knight RT, Yonelinas AP.
  Neuron 68(5):835-42. (2010) [Abstract] [Full text]
  Report E. Hoshino

• Big data and dimension reduction.
  Research Talk T. Ishikawa

9th(#420) :2014/06/13(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Sampling autobiographical memory.
  Robinson, JA.
  Cognitive Psychology 8(4): 578–595. (1976) [Abstract]
  Report A. Onzo

• Fluidity in autobiographical memories: Relationship memories sampled on two occasions.
  Drivdahl SB, Hyman IE Jr.
  Memory (2013). [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract]
  Report A. Onzo

• Warm Thoughts: Attachment Anxiety and Sensitivity to Temperature Cues.
  Vess, M.
  Psychological Science 23(5): 472-474. (2012) [Abstract]
  Report T. Takano

• Spontaneous Neural Fluctuations Predict Decisions to Attend.
  Bengson JJ, Kelley TA, Zhang X, Wang JL, Mangun GR.
  J Cogn Neurosci. (2014) [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract]
  Research Talk T. Herai

10th(#421) :2014/06/20(Fri): Journal Club & Progress Report

• Neural mechanisms of motivated forgetting.
  Anderson MC, Hanslmayr S.
  Trends Cogn Sci. 18(6):279-292. (2014) [Abstract]
  Report T. Ishikawa

• Overcoming fixation. Creative problem solving and retrieval-induced forgetting.
  Storm BC, Angello G.
  Psychol Sci. 21(9):1263-5. (2010) [PDF]
  Report T. Ishikawa

• Paradigm shift and innovation.
  Progress Report K. Mogi

11th(#422) :2014/07/02(Wed): Research Talk

• Discussion for the ASSC18 conference
  Research Talk A. Onzo
  Research Talk T. Ishikawa

12th(#423) :2014/07/08(Tue): Research Talk

• ASSC18 poster finalization
  Research Talk A. Onzo
  Research Talk T. Ishikawa

13th(#424) :2014/07/16(Wed)-19(Sat): ASSC18 at Brisbane, Australia

• Overflow as a strategy for the reduction of redundancy.
  Presentation K. Mogi

• Vividness of memory and post-coding events.
  Presentation A. Onzo & K. Mogi

• Fluency and difficulties in an “aha” experience.
  Presentation T. Ishikawa, M. Toshima, V. Garkavijs, & K. Mogi

14th(#425) :2014/07/23(Wed): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information.
  Healy K, McNally L, Ruxton GD, Cooper N, Jackson AL.
  Anim Behav. 86(4):685-696. (2013) [Abstract]
  Report T. Sudo

• Watson: Beyond Jeopardy!
  Ferrucci D, Levas A, Bagchi S, Gondek D, Mueller E.
  Artificial Intelligence Vol.199-200: pp.93-105. (2013) [Abstract]
  Report K. Mogi

• Statistical learning and pattern recognition.
  Research Talk E. Hoshino

15th(#426) :2014/07/30(Wed): Journal Club & Guest Talk

• Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: How to Retrain Your Brain to Overcome Pessimism and Achieve a More Positive Outlook.
  Fox E.
  Basic Books (2012) [URL]
  Report M. Toshima

• The functional architecture of the ventral temporal cortex and its role in categorization.
  Grill-Spector K, Weiner KS.
  Nat Rev Neurosci. 15(8):536-48. (2014) [Abstract]
  Report T. Ishikawa

• How did the Spanish troop escape from the Alps by using a map of Pyrenees?
  Guest Talk Yukio-Pegio Gunji at Waseda University

16th(#427) :2014/08/09(Sat)-11(Mon): Summer Camp

We went to a summer resort by the lake Kizaki in Nagano. We enjoyed cool, rainy lakeshore.

17th(#428) :2014/08/20(Wed): Journal Club & Guest Talk

• Hippocampal-neocortical functional reorganization underlies children's cognitive development.
  Qin S, Cho S, Chen T, Rosenberg-Lee M, Geary DC, Menon V.
  Nat Neurosci. (2014 Aug 17) [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract]
  Report E. Hoshino

• Just think: the challenges of the disengaged mind.
  Wilson TD, Reinhard DA, Westgate EC, Gilbert DT, Ellerbeck N, Hahn C, Brown CL, Shaked A.
  Science 345:75-7. (2014) [Abstract]
  Report A. Onzo

• Progress report.
  Research Talk M. Toshima

18th(#429) :2014/09/12(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Energy landscape and dynamics of brain activity during human bistable perception.
  Watanabe T, Masuda N, Megumi F, Kanai R, Rees G.
  Nat Commun. 5:4765. (2014) [Full text]
  Report T. Ishikawa

• Adult attachment and the perception of facial expression of emotion.
  Niedenthal PM, Brauer M, Robin L, Innes-Ker AH.
  J Pers Soc Psychol. 82(3):419-33. (2002) [Abstract]
  Research Talk T. Takano

19th(#430) :2014/09/19(Fri): Research Talk

• Effect of Numeric Order on Subjective Duration of Following Stimulus.
  Herai T, Mogi K.
  Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems 11(3):19-23. (2010) [PDF]
  Research Talk T. Herai

• Perception of temporal duration affected by automatic and controlled movements.
  Herai T, Mogi K.
  Consciousness and Cognition 29:23-35. (2014) [Full text]
  Research Talk T. Herai

20th(#431) :2014/09/26(Fri): Journal Club

• The neural basis of romantic love.
  Bartels A, Zeki S.
  Neuroreport 11(17):3829-34. (2000) [Abstract]
  Report T. Takano

• Romantic love: an fMRI study of a neural mechanism for mate choice.
  Fisher H, Aron A, Brown LL.
  J Comp Neurol. 493:58-62. (2005) [Abstract]
  Report T. Takano

• The year 2045 problem: When computers transcend the human intelligence. [In Japanese]
  Matsuda T.
  Kosaido publishing, pp.1-223. (2012) [URL]
  Report M. Toshima