Search Results - "Kitada, Ryo"

Tactile perception of pleasantness in relation to perceived softness by Pasqualotto, Achille, Ng, Megan, Tan, Zheng Yee, Kitada, Ryo

“…The sense of touch allows us to infer objects’ physical properties, while the same input also produces affective sensations. These affective sensations are…”
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Physical correlates of human-like softness elicit high tactile pleasantness by Kitada, Ryo, Ng, Megan, Tan, Zheng Yee, Lee, Xue Er, Kochiyama, Takanori

“…Touching an object can elicit affective sensations. Because these sensations are critical for social interaction, tactile preferences may be adapted to the…”
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Cross-cultural similarity in relationship-specific social touching by Suvilehto, Juulia T, Nummenmaa, Lauri, Harada, Tokiko, Dunbar, Robin I M, Hari, Riitta, Turner, Robert, Sadato, Norihiro, Kitada, Ryo

“…Many species use touching for reinforcing social structures, and particularly, non-human primates use social grooming for managing their social networks…”
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Emotional Tears Communicate Sadness but Not Excessive Emotions Without Other Contextual Knowledge by Ito, Kenichi, Ong, Chew Wei, Kitada, Ryo

“…Contexts of face perception are diverse. They range from the social environment to body postures, from the expresser's gaze direction to the tone of voice. In…”
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Brain networks underlying the processing of sound symbolism related to softness perception by Kitada, Ryo, Kwon, Jinhwan, Doizaki, Ryuichi, Nakagawa, Eri, Tanigawa, Tsubasa, Kajimoto, Hiroyuki, Sadato, Norihiro, Sakamoto, Maki

“…Unlike the assumption of modern linguistics, there is non-arbitrary association between sound and meaning in sound symbolic words. Neuroimaging studies have…”
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Brain networks underlying tactile softness perception: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study by Kitada, Ryo, Doizaki, Ryuichi, Kwon, Jinhwan, Tanigawa, Tsubasa, Nakagawa, Eri, Kochiyama, Takanori, Kajimoto, Hiroyuki, Sakamoto, Maki, Sadato, Norihiro

“…Humans are adept at perceiving physical properties of an object through touch. Tangible object properties can be categorized into two types: macro-spatial…”
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Affective judgement of social touch on a hand associated with hand embodiment by Fahey, Samira, Santana, Chavelyn, Kitada, Ryo, Zheng, Zane

“…Social touch constitutes a critical component of human interactions. A gentle tap on the hand, for instance, can sometimes create emotional bonding and reduce…”
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Brain networks involved in tactile speed classification of moving dot patterns: the effects of speed and dot periodicity by Yang, Jiajia, Kitada, Ryo, Kochiyama, Takanori, Yu, Yinghua, Makita, Kai, Araki, Yuta, Wu, Jinglong, Sadato, Norihiro

“…Humans are able to judge the speed of an object’s motion by touch. Research has suggested that tactile judgment of speed is influenced by physical properties…”
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Brain networks underlying conscious tactile perception of textures as revealed using the velvet hand illusion by Rajaei, Nader, Aoki, Naoya, Takahashi, Haruka K, Miyaoka, Tetsu, Kochiyama, Takanori, Ohka, Masahiro, Sadato, Norihiro, Kitada, Ryo

“…Humans are adept at perceiving textures through touch. Previous neuroimaging studies have identified a distributed network of brain regions involved in the…”
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Distinct sensitivities of the lateral prefrontal cortex and extrastriate body area to contingency between executed and observed actions by Sasaki, Akihiro T., Okamoto, Yuko, Kochiyama, Takanori, Kitada, Ryo, Sadato, Norihiro

“…Detecting relationships between our own actions and the subsequent actions of others is critical for our social behavior. Self-actions differ from those of…”
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Coexistence of sensory qualities and value representations in human orbitofrontal cortex by Yoshimoto, Takaaki, Okazaki, Shuntaro, Sumiya, Motofumi, Takahashi, Haruka K., Nakagawa, Eri, Koike, Takahiko, Kitada, Ryo, Okamoto, Shiki, Nakata, Masanori, Yada, Toshihiko, Kosaka, Hirotaka, Sadato, Norihiro, Chikazoe, Junichi

“…Despite the multiple regions and neural networks associated with value-based decision-making, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is possible a particularly…”
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Brain networks of social action-outcome contingency: The role of the ventral striatum in integrating signals from the sensory cortex and medial prefrontal cortex by Sumiya, Motofumi, Koike, Takahiko, Okazaki, Shuntaro, Kitada, Ryo, Sadato, Norihiro

“…•Action-outcome contingency can facilitate social interactions.•The role of cortical nodes beyond the striatum in this contingency remains unclear.•The medial…”
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Controlled emotional tactile stimulation during functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography by Kanayama, Noriaki, Hara, Masayuki, Watanabe, Junji, Kitada, Ryo, Sakamoto, Maki, Yamawaki, Shigeto

“…•We have developed a tactile stimulation device for inducing emotional responses.•The device can control the speed and pressure of touch with various…”
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Brain networks involved in haptic and visual identification of facial expressions of emotion: An fMRI study by Kitada, Ryo, Johnsrude, Ingrid S., Kochiyama, Takanori, Lederman, Susan J.

“…Previous neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies have shown that a cortical network involving the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), inferior parietal lobe…”
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Japanese Sound-Symbolic Words for Representing the Hardness of an Object Are Judged Similarly by Japanese and English Speakers by Wong, Li Shan, Kwon, Jinhwan, Zheng, Zane, Styles, Suzy J, Sakamoto, Maki, Kitada, Ryo

“…Contrary to the assumption of arbitrariness in modern linguistics, sound symbolism, which is the non-arbitrary relationship between sounds and meanings,…”
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Brain networks of affective mentalizing revealed by the tear effect: The integrative role of the medial prefrontal cortex and precuneus by Takahashi, Haruka K., Kitada, Ryo, Sasaki, Akihiro T., Kawamichi, Hiroaki, Okazaki, Shuntaro, Kochiyama, Takanori, Sadato, Norihiro

“…•Previous studies have identified nodes of the core affective mentalizing network.•The relative contributions of these nodes to affective mentalizing are still…”
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Role of the precuneus in the detection of incongruency between tactile and visual texture information: A functional MRI study by Kitada, Ryo, Sasaki, Akihiro T., Okamoto, Yuko, Kochiyama, Takanori, Sadato, Norihiro

“…Visual clues as to the physical substance of manufactured objects can be misleading. For example, a plastic ring can appear to be made of gold. However, we can…”
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The Effect of Object Compliance on the Velvet Hand Illusion by Pasqualotto, Achille, Yin, Cindy Chai Jia, Ohka, Masahiro, Kitada, Ryo

“…Movement of a grid of bars between the two hands creates the tactile illusion of a velvet-like material, namely, the velvet hand illusion (VHI). It was…”
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Neural correlates underlying change in state self-esteem by Kawamichi, Hiroaki, Sugawara, Sho K., Hamano, Yuki H., Kitada, Ryo, Nakagawa, Eri, Kochiyama, Takanori, Sadato, Norihiro

“…State self-esteem, the momentary feeling of self-worth, functions as a sociometer involved in maintenance of interpersonal relations. How others’ appraisal is…”
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The Effect of Temperature on Tactile Softness Perception by Tan, Zheng Yee, Choo, Cameron Mavericks, Lin, Youneng, Ho, Hsin-Ni, Kitada, Ryo

“…We are adept at discriminating object properties such as softness and temperature using touch. Previous studies have investigated the nature of each object…”
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