I obtained a Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology, 1995) and MS (Experimental Psychology, 1989) both from the University of Tokyo, Japan. I worked in ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories in Kyoto from 1992 to 96 as a Research Associate. Since 1996, I have been working as a leader of Computational Psychology Group in KDB, ERATO, JST.

Research Interests

My original research interest is in human sensorimotor learning from psychological and computational points of view. Using methods of experimental psychology, I have been studied generalization abilities of skills and coordinate systems adopted by the sensorimotor integration mechanism. I have started investigating brain activation using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) when human subjects are learning skills to use a new tool.

Imamizu, H., Uno, Y., & Kawato, M. (1995).
Internal representations of the motor apparatus: implications from generalization in visuomotor learning.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 21(5), 1174-98.

Imamizu, H., & Shimojo, S. (1995).
The locus of visual-motor learning at the task or manipulator level: implications from intermanual transfer.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 21(4), 719-33.

Miall, R.C., Reckess, G.Z. & Imamizu, H. (inpress)
The cerebellum coordinates eye and hand tracking movements.
Nature Neuroscience.

Miall, R.C., Imamizu, H., Miyauchi, S.. (2000)
Activation of the cerebellum in co-ordinated eye and hand tracking movements: an fMRI study.
Exp Brain Res,135(1), 22-33.

Flanagan, J.R., Nakano, E., Imamizu, H., Osu, R., Yoshioka, T., & Kawato, M. (1999).
Composition and decomposition of internal models in motor learning under altered kinematic and dynamic environments.
The Journal of Neuroscience, 19(20):RC34:1-5.
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Tamada, T., Miyauchi, S., Imamizu, H., Yoshioka, T., & Kawato, M. (1999).
Cerebro-cerebellar functional connectivity revead by the laterality index in tool-use learning.
  Neuroreport, 10(2), 325-31.

Itakura, S., & Imamizu, H. (1994).
An exploratory study of mirror-image shape discrimination in young children: vision and touch.
  Percept Mot Skills, 78(1), 83-8.

>> Presentations in conferences <<

- The Japan Psychological Association
- Japan Society of Developmental Psychology
- Society for Neuroscience, USA