Noriko Yamagishi PhD, Senior Researcher

ATR Computational Neuroscience laboratories

• INDEX Research Interests || Selected Publications || Education || Professional History || Related Links

Research Interests

 
• Mechanisms underlying visual attention
• Brain-Network Interface (BNI)/Brain-Machine Interface (BMI)
  
• real-time magnetoencephalography (MEG) and fMRI study on neural plasticity
  
• Brain activity and task performance
  
• Retinal physiology and visual function
• Neural networks and biologically-based computer modeling of human vision
• Clinical visual assessment and application (Glaucoma)

Selected Publications

• Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

- Yamagishi, N., Anton, A., Sample, P.A., Zangwill, L., Lopez, A., & Weinreb, R.N. (1997). Mapping structural damage of the optic disk to visual field defect in glaucoma. American Journal of Ophthalmology, 123, 667-676.

- Sample, P.A., Irak, I., Martinez, G.A., & Yamagishi, N. (1997). Asymmetries in the normal short-wavelength visual field: Implications for short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP). American Journal of Ophthalmology, 124, 46-52.

- Anton, A., Yamagishi, N., Zangwill, L., Sample, P.A., & Weinreb, R.N. (1998). Mapping structural to functional damage in glaucoma with standard automated perimetry and confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy. American Journal of Ophthalmology, 125, 436-446.

- Anderson, S.J., & Yamagishi, N. (2000). Spatial localization of colour and luminance stimuli in human peripheral vision. Vision Research, 40, 759-771.

- Yamagishi, N., Anderson, S.J., & Ashida, H. (2001) Evidence for dissociation between the perceptual and visuomotor systems in humans. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 268, 973-977.

- Yamagishi, N., & Melara, R. D. (2001) Informational primacy of visual dimensions: Specialized roles for luminance and chromaticity in Figure-Ground perception. Perception and Psychophysics, 63, 824-846.

-Anderson, S.J., Yamagishi, N., Karavia, V. (2002) Attentional processes link perception and action. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, London, 269, 1225-1232.

-Yamagishi, N., Callan, D. E., Goda, N., Anderson, S.J., Yoshida, Y., Kawato, M. (2003). Attentional modulation of oscillatory activity in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 20, 98-113.
 
- Seitz, A*. R., Yamagishi, N*., Werner, B*., Goda, N., Kawato, M., & Watanabe, T. (2005). Task specific disruption of perceptual learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 14895-14900 . (*Equal contribution/Co-first author)

- Yamagishi, N., Goda, N., Callan, D. E., Anderson, S. J., & Kawato, M. (2005). Attentional shifts towards an expected visual target alter the level of alpha-band oscillatory activity in the human calcarine cortex. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 799-809.

- Ashida, H., Yamagishi, N., & Anderson, S. J. (2007). The relative contributions of colour and luminance signals towards the visuomotor localisation of targets in human peripheral vision. Experimental Brain Research, 183, 425-434.


- Yamagishi, N., Callan, D.E., Anderson, S.J., & Kawato, M. (2008). Attentional changes in pre-stimulus oscillatory activity within early visual cortex are predictive of human visual performance. Brain Research, 1197, 115-122.


- Shibata, K., Yamagishi, N., Goda, N., Yoshioka, T., Yamashita, O., Sato, M., & Kawato, M. (2008). Feature attention selectively and trasiently enhances activity within feature-sensitive visual areas before stimulus onset: an fMRI-contrained MEG study. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 1664-1675; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhm194.


- Yoshioka, T., Toyama, K., Kawato, M., Yamashita, O., Nishina, S., Yamagishi, N., Sato, M. (2008). Evaluation of hierarchical Bayesian method through retinotopic brain activities reconstruction from fMRI and MEG signals, NeuroImage, 42, 1397-1413.


- Shibata, K., Yamagishi, N., Ishii, S., & Kawato, M. Boosting perceptual learning by fake feedback (2009). Vision Research, 49, 2574-2585.

- Yamagishi, N., Anderson, S.J., & Kawato, M. (2010). The observant mind: self-awareness of attentional status. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 277. 3421-3426, Epub 2010 Jun 9. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0891.

Education

• M.S. Cognitive Psychology - Purdue University - USA, Advisor, Robert D. Melara, PhD
• Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology - Purdue University - USA, Advisor, Robert D. Melara, PhD

Professional History

• 1995/1996 - post-doctoral research fellow - Department of Ophthalmology, Medical School - University of California, San Diego - USA, Advisor, Pamela A. Sample, PhD
• 1996/1998 - post-doctoral research fellow - Department of Psychology, - Royal Holloway College, University of London - England, Advisor, Stephen J. Anderson, PhD
• 1998/2000 - Researcher ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories - Kyoto, Japan
• 2000 /2002  -Researcher ATR - Kyoto, Japan
• 2003 -         -Senior Researcher ATR  Computational Neuroscience laboratories - Kyoto, Japan
• 2009 -         -PI, PRESTO Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Related Links

• collaborations with Prof. Stephen J. Anderson at  Aston University- UK

 
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