DECNEF

Journal Publications

 

– 2025 –

• Chiba T, Ide K, Taylor J. E, Cortese A, Kubo T, Nishida K, Boku S, Toda H, Shirakawa M, Amano K, Lau H, Kawato M, Seymour B, Koizumi A, Kanazawa T, PTSD therapy with fMRI-decoded neurofeedback bypassing conscious exposure: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, medRxiv (2025), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.07.25330779

 

• Oka T, Koyama Y, Sasaki A, Murakami M, Kobayashi N, Cortese A, Dynamic cognitive differences between internal and external attention are associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (2025), 79 (9) : 597-598 (preprint at bioRxiv), DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13859

 

• Oka T, Sasaki A, Kobayashi N, A transdiagnostic dimensional approach to behavioral dysregulation: Examining self-reported reward and punishment sensitivity across psychopathology, Journal of Affective Disorders (2025), 387 : 119493 (preprint at medRxiv), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.119493

 

• Putra H. A, Park K, Yamashita F, Cerebral gray matter volume identifies healthy older drivers with a critical decline in driving safety performance using actual vehicles on a closed-circuit course, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (2025), 17 : 1462951, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2025.1462951

 

• Liu L, Callan A, Wada A, Ando H, Neural substrates underlying multisensory stiffness perception via active touch and dynamic visual feedback, Imaging Neuroscience (2025), 3 : imag_a_00493, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00493

 

• Orouji S, Taschereau-Dumouchel V, Cortese A, Odegaard B, Cushing C, Cherkaoui M, Kawato M, Lau H, Peters M. A. K, Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience, Scientific Reports (2025), 15 : 1365 (preprint at arXiv), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83867-6

 

– 2024 –

• Göktepe-Kavis P, Aellen FM, Cortese A, Castegnetti G, De Martino B, Tzovara A, Context changes retrieval of prospective outcomes during decision deliberation, Cerebral Cortex (2024), 34 (12) : bhae483, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae483

 

• Cortese A, Ohata R, Alemany-González M, Kitagawa N, Imamizu H, Koizumi A, Time-dependent neural arbitration between cue associative and episodic fear memories, Nature Communications (2024), 15 : 8706, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52733-4

 

• Oka T, Kubo T, Kobayashi N, Murakami M, Chiba T, Cortese A, Decoding and modifying dynamic attentional bias in gaming disorder, Philosophical transactions of the royal society B (2025), 379 (1915) : 20230090, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0090

 

• Takeshige M, Oka T, Ohwan M and Hirai K, Exploring the Utility of a Machine Learning Approach with Mobile-Based Cognitive Function Tasks for Detecting Depression, Japanese Psychological Research (2024), 67 (2) : 195-207, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpr.12565

 

• Taylor JE, Oka T, Murakami M, Motegi T, Yamada T, Kawashima T, Kobayashi Y, Yoshihara Y, Miyata J, Murai T, Kawato M, & Cortese A , Paving the way for precision treatment of psychiatric symptoms with functional connectivity neurofeedback, medRxiv (2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.03.24304187

 

• Cortese A, Kawato M. The cognitive reality monitoring network and theories of consciousness, Neuroscience Research (2024), 201 : 31-38, DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2024.01.007

 

• Kasahara M, Oka T, Taschereau-Dumouchel V, Kawato M, Takakura H, Cortese A, Generative AI-based closed-loop fMRI system, arXiv (2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.16742

 

• Oka T, Kubo T, Murakami M, Kobayashi N. The relationship of game genres, in-game purchases, and playing duration with probable gaming disorder in two independent, large-scale online surveys of Japanese adults,  Journal of behavioral addictions (2024), 13 (1) : 205-214, DOI: 10.1556/2006.2023.00076

 

• Nakai F, Oka T, Kobayashi N, Tanichi M, Murakami M, Hamamura T, Honjo M, Miyake Y, Ide K, Cortese A, Nagamine M, Kubo T, Chiba T, Pre-event psychiatric states predict trajectories of stress symptoms in Japan, medRxiv (2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.14.23300571

 

– 2023 –

• Chiba T., Ide K., Murakami M., Kobayashi N., Oka T., Nakai F., Yorizawa R., Miyake Y., Hamamura T., Honjo M., Toda H., Kanazawa T., Boku S., Kubo T., Hishimoto A., Kawato M., Cortese A. Event-related PTSD symptoms as a high-risk factor for suicide – Longitudinal observational study, Nature Mental Health (2023), 1 : 1013–1022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00157-2

 

• Takamura M., Okada G., Kamishikiryo T., Itai E., Kato M., Motegi T., Taylor J.E., Yoshioka T., Kawato M., Okamoto Y.  Application of functional connectivity neurofeedback in patients with treatment-resistant depression: A preliminary report,  Journal of Affective Disorders Reports (2023), 14 : 100644, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100644

 

• Hamamura T, Kobayashi N, Oka T, Kawashima I, Sakai Y, Tanaka CS, Honjo M. Validity, reliability, and correlates of the smartphone addiction scale-short version among Japanese adults, BMC Psychology (2023), 11 : 78, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01095-5

 

• Martino BD, Cortes A. Goals, usefulness and abstraction in value-based choice, Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2023), 27 (1) : 65-80, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.11.001

 

– 2022 –

• Taylor JE, Yamada T, Kawashima T, Kobayashi Y, Yoshihara Y, Miyata J, Murai T, Kawato M & Motegi T. Depressive symptoms reduce when dorsolateral prefrontal cortex-precuneus connectivity normalizes after functional connectivity neurofeedback,  Scientific Reports (2022), 12 : 2581 (preprint at medRxiv), DOI : https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05860-1

 

• Bramlage L, Cortese A. Generalized attention-weighted reinforcement learning,  Neural Networks (2022), 145 : 10-21, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2021.09.023

 

• Cortese A. Metacognitive resources for adaptive learning, Neuroscience Research (2022), 178 : 10-19, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2021.09.003

 

– 2021 –

• Oka T, Kubo T, Kobayashi N, Nakai F, Miyake Y, Hamamura T, Honjo M, Toda H, Boku S, Kanazawa T, Nagamine M, Cortese A, Takebayashi M, Kawato M & Chiba T. Multiple time measurements of multidimensional psychiatric states from immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic to one year later: a longitudinal online survey of the Japanese population, Translational psychiatry (2021), 11 : 573 (preprint at medRxiv), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01696-x

 

• Kawato M, Cortese A. From internal models toward metacognitive AI, Biological Cybernetics (2021), 115 : 415-430, DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1007/s00422-021-00904-7

 

• Taylor JE, Cortese A, Barron HC, Pan X, Sakagami M, Zeithamova D, How do we generalize?, arXiv (2021), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.07.004

 

• Tanaka S, Taylor JE, Sakagami M, The effect of effort on reward prediction error signals in midbrain dopamine neurons,  Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (2021), 41 : 152-159  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.07.004

 

• Oka T, Hamamura T, Miyake Y, Kobayashi N, Honjo M, Kawato M, Kubo T, Chiba T. Prevalence and risk factors of internet gaming disorder and problematic internet use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A large online survey of Japanese adult, Journal of Psychiatric Research (2021), 142 (10) : 218-225  (preprint at medRxiv), DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.07.054

 

• Cortese A, Yamamoto A, Hashemzadeh M, Sepulveda P, Kawato M, Martino BD. Value signals guide abstraction during learning, eLife (2021), 10 : e68943 (Preprint at bioRxiv), DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.68943

 

• Cortese A, Tanaka SC, Amano K, Koizumi A, Lau H, Sasaki Y,  Shibata K, Taschereau-Dumouchel V, Watanabe T  & Kawato M. The DecNef collection, fMRI data from closed-loop decoded neurofeedback experiments, Scientific Data (2021), 8 : 65, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00845-7

 

• Menara T, Lisi G, Pasqualetti F, Cortese A. Brain network dynamics fingerprints are resilient to data heterogeneity, Journal of Neural Engineering (2021), 18 (2) : 026004 (preprint at bioRxiv), DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/abd684

 

• Taylor J. E, Yamada T, Kawashima T, Kobayashi Y, Yoshihara Y, Miyata J, Murai T, Kawato M, Motegi T, Reduction of brooding and more general depressive symptoms after fMRI neurofeedback targeting a melancholic functional-connectivity biomarker, medRxiv (2021), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.21.20248810

 

• Chiba T, Ide K, Taylor JE, Boku S, Toda H, Kanazawa T, Kato S, Horiuchi Y, Hishimoto A, Maruyama T, Yamamoto T, Sora I, Kawato M, Koizumi A. A reciprocal inhibition model of alternations between under/overemotional modulatory states in patients with PTSD, Molecular Psychiatry (2021), 26 : 5023–5039 (preprint at bioRxiv), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-0827-0

 

• Taschereau-Dumouchel V, Cortese A, Lau H, Kawato M, Conducting decoded neurofeedback studies, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2021), 16 (8) : 838-848 (preprint at PsyArXiv), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa063

 

– 2020 –

• Chiba T, Oka T, Hamamura T, Kobayashi N, Honjo M, Miyake Y, Kubo T, Toda Hi, Kanazawa T, Boku S, Hishimoto A, Kawato M, Cortese A, PTSD symptoms related to COVID-19 as a high risk factor for suicide – Key to prevention, medRxiv (2020), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.15.20246819

 

• Cortese A, Lau H, Kawato M, Unconscious reinforcement learning of hidden brain states supported by confidence, Nature Communications (2020), 11 : 4429, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17828-8

 

• Taylor JE, Lau H, Seymour B, Nakae A, Sumioka H, Kawato M, Koizumi A, An Evolutionarily Threat-Relevant Odor Strengthens Human Fear Memory, frontiers in Neuroscience (2020), 14 : 00255, DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00255

 

• Taschereau-Dumouchel V, Chiba T, Koizumi A, Kawato M & Lau H, Multivoxel Neural Reinforcement Changes Resting-State Functional Connectivity Within the Threat Regulation Network, bioRxiv (2020), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.03.021956

 

• Taschereau-Dumouchel V, Kawato M, Lau H. Multivoxel pattern analysis reveals dissociations between subjective fear and its physiological correlates,  Molecular Psychiatry (2020), 25 : 2342–2354 (preprint at bioRxiv), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0520-3

 

– 2019 –

• Chiba T, Kanazawa T, Koizumi A, Ide K, Taschereau-Dumouchel V, Boku S, Hishimoto A, Shirakawa M, Sora I, Lau H, Yoneda H &  Kawato M, Current Status of Neurofeedback for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review and the Possibility of Decoded Neurofeedback,  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2019), 13 : 233, DOI: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00233/full

 

• Knotts JD, Cortese A, Tascherau-Dumouchel V, Kawato M & Lau H, Multivoxel patterns for perceptual confidence are associated with false color detection, bioRxiv (2019), 735084, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/735084

 

• Cortese A, De Martino B, Kawato M, The neural and cognitive architecture for learning from a small sample, Current Opinion Neurobiology (2019), 55 : 133-141 (preprint at arXiv), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.02.011

 

• Shibata K, Lisi G, Cortese A, Watanabe T, Sasaki Y, Kawato M. Toward a comprehensive understanding of the neural mechanisms of decoded neurofeedback, NeuroImage (2019), 188 : 539-556, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.022

 

• Cortese A, Lau H, Kawato M, Metacognition facilitates the exploitation of unconscious brain states, bioRxiv (2019), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/548941

 

– 2018 –

• Taschereau-Dumouchel V, Cortese A, Chiba T, Knotts J. D, Kawato M, Lau H, Towards an unconscious neural reinforcement intervention for common fears, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2018), 115 (13) : 3470-3475, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721572115

 

– 2017 –

• Watanabe T, Sasaki Y, Shibata K, Kawato M, Advances in fMRI real-time neurofeedback, Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2017), 21 (12) : 997-1010, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2017.09.010

 

– 2016 –

• Cortese A, Amano K, Koizumi A, Kawato M & Lau H, Multivoxel neurofeedback selectively modulates confidence without changing perceptual performance,  Nature Communications (2016), 7 : 13669, DOI: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13669

 

• Yamada T, Itahashi T, Nakamura M, Watanabe H, Kuroda M, Ohta H, Kanai C, Kato N, Hashimoto R, Altered functional organization within the insular cortex in adult males with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: evidence from connectivity-based parcellation, Molecular Autism (2016), 7 : 41, DOI: 10.1186/s13229-016-0106-8

 

• Hashimoto R-I, Itahashi T, Ohtab H, Yamada T, Kanai C, Nakamura M, Watanabe H, Kato N, Altered effects of perspective-taking on functional connectivity during self- and other-referential processing in adults with autism spectrum disorder, Social Neuroscience (2016), 12 (6) : 661-672, DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2016.1224202

 

• Lin I-F, Agus T. R, Suied C, Pressnitzer D, Yamada T, Komine Y, Kato N, Kashino M, Fast response to human voices in autism, Scientific Reports (2016), 6 : 26336, DOI: 10.1038/srep26336

 

• Yahata N, Morimoto J, Hashimoto R, Lisi G, Shibata K, Kawakubo Y, Kuwabara H, Kuroda M, Yamada T, Megumi F, Imamizu H, Náñez Sr JE, Takahashi H, Okamoto Y, Kasai K, Kato N, Sasaki Y, Watanabe T, Kawato M. A small number of abnormal brain connections predicts adult autism spectrum disorder, Nature Communications (2016), 7 : 11254, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11254

 

– 2015 –

• Itahashi T, Yamada T, Watanabe H, Nakamura M, Ohta H, Kanai C, Iwanai A , Kato N, Hashimoto R, Alterations of local spontaneous brain activity and connectivity in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder, Molecular Austism (2015), 6 : 30, DOI: https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-015-0026-z

 

• Lin I-F, Yamada T, Komine Y, Kato N, Kato M, Kashino M, Vocal Identity Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder, PLoS ONE (2015), 10 (6) : e0129451, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129451

 

• Lin I-F, Yamada T, Komine Y, Kato N, Kashino M. Enhanced segregation of concurrent sounds with similar spectral uncertainties in individuals with autism spectrum disorder, Scientific Reports (2015), 5 : 10524, DOi: 10.1038/srep10524

 

– 2012 –

• Shibata K, Kawato M, Watanabe T & Sasaki Y. Monocular deprivation boosts long-term visual plasticity, Current Biology (2012), 22 (9) : R291-R292, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.010

 

– 2011 –

• Shibata K, Watanabe T, Sasaki Y & Kawato M. Perceptual learning incepted by decoded fMRI neurofeedback without stimulus presentation,  Science (2011), 334 (6061) : 1413-1415, DOI: 10.1126/science.1212003