Publications

Featured Books and Articles

Alireza Saeedi, Kun Wang, Ghazaleh Nikpourian, Andreas Bartels, Nikos K. Logothetis, Nelson K. Totah & Masataka Watanabe, Brightness illusions drive a neuronal response in the primary visual cortex under top-down modulation, Nature Communications,15:3141, 2024
Masataka Watanabe, From Biological to Artificial Consciousness, Springer, 2022
渡辺正峰, 脳の意識　機械の意識 - 脳神経科学の挑戦 - , 中央公論新社 2017

Masataka Watanabe, Andreas Bartels, Jakob H. Macke, Yusuke Murayama, Nikos K. Logothetis.

Temporal Jitter of the BOLD Signal Reveals a Reliable Initial Dip and Improved Spatial Resolution.

Current Biology. 2013. 23. 21. 2146-2150

Masataka Watanabe, Kang Cheng, Yusuke Murayama, Kenichi Ueno, Takeshi Asamizuya, Keiji Tanaka, Nikos Logothetis. Attention But Not Awareness Modulates the BOLD Signal in the Human V1 During Binocular Suppression.

Science. 2011. 334. 6057. 829-831

Journal Papers

Alireza Saeedi, Kun Wang, Ghazaleh Nikpourian, Andreas Bartels, Nikos K. Logothetis, Nelson K. Totah & Masataka Watanabe, Brightness illusions drive a neuronal response in the primary visual cortex under top-down modulation, Nature Communications,15:3141, 2024
Watanabe, M.; Nagaoka, S.; Kirchberger, L.; Poyraz, E.; Lowe, S.; Uysal, B.; Vaiceliunaite, A.; Totah, N.; Logothetis, N et al.: Mouse primary visual cortex in not part of the reverberant neural circuitry critical for visual perception. (in revision)
D Vasilev, M Watanabe, NK Logothetis, NK Totah.: Focusing perceptual attention in one modality constrains subsequent learning in another modality, biorxiv., 22.477334, 2022
渡辺正峰, 意識と自由意志――量子論ゆらぎによる長期利得最大化と意識・無意識の表裏一体性の観点から現代思想 2021年8月号　特集＝自由意志　-脳と心をめぐるアポリア- 2021
Delong Patrycja, Aller Mate, Giani Anette S, Rohe Tim, Conrad Verena, Watanabe Masataka,
Noppeney Uta. Invisible Flashes Alter Perceived Sound Location. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2018. 8. 1.12376
Soyoung Kwon, Masataka Watanabe, Elvira Fischer, Andreas Bartels. Attention reorganizes
connectivity across networks in a frequency specific manner. NEUROIMAGE. 2017. 144. 217-226
Esther Florin, Masataka Watanabe, Nikos K. Logothetis. The role of sub-second neural events in spontaneous brain activity. CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY. 2015. 32. 24-30
Aller Mate, Giani Anette, Conrad Verena, Watanabe Masataka, Noppeney Uta. A spatially collocated sound thrusts a flash into awareness. FRONTIERS IN INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE. 2015. 9. 16
渡辺正峰, 視覚的意識と大脳皮質―二つの脳半球と一つの意識　Clinical Neuroscience Vol.32 08月号意識・無意識 2014
Masataka Watanabe, Andreas Bartels, Jakob H. Macke, Yusuke Murayama, Nikos K. Logothetis. Temporal Jitter of the BOLD Signal Reveals a Reliable Initial Dip and Improved Spatial Resolution. CURRENT BIOLOGY. 2013. 23. 21. 2146-2150
渡辺正峰, 意識の神経相関から神経メカニズムへClinical Neuroscience Vol.31 10月号悪性脳腫瘍の治療 ―最新のトピックス 2013
Masataka Watanabe, Shion Shinohara, Shinsuke Shimojo. Mirror Adaptation in Sensory-Motor Simultaneity. PLOS ONE. 2011. 6. 12. e28080
Masataka Watanabe, Kang Cheng, Yusuke Murayama, Kenichi Ueno, Takeshi Asamizuya, Keiji Tanaka, Nikos Logothetis. Attention But Not Awareness Modulates the BOLD Signal in the Human V1 During Binocular Suppression. SCIENCE. 2011. 334. 6057. 829-831
Ayako Masuda, Junji Watanabe, Masahiko Terao, Masataka Watanabe, Akihiro Yagi, Kazushi Maruya. Awareness of central luminance edge is crucial for the Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet effect. FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE. 2011. 5. 125
Tsuyoshi Okamoto, Koji Ikezoe, Hiroshi Tamura, Masataka Watanabe, Kazuyuki Aihara, Ichiro Fujita. Predicted contextual modulation varies with distance from pinwheel centers in the orientation preference map. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2011. 1. 114
Satohiro Tajima, Masataka Watanabe. Acquisition of nonlinear forward optics in generative models: Two-stage "learning for occluded vision". NEURAL NETWORKS. 2011. 24. 2. 148-158
Satohiro Tajima, Masataka Watanabe, Chihiro Imai, Kenichi Ueno, Takeshi Asamizuya, Pei Sun, Keiji Tanaka, Kang Cheng. Opposing Effects of Contextual Surround in Human Early Visual Cortex Revealed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Continuously Modulated Visual Stimuli. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2010. 30. 9. 3264-3270
Kenji Hosoda, Masataka Watanabe, Heiko Wersing, Edgar Koerner, Hiroshi Tsujino, Hiroshi Tamura, Ichiro Fujita. A Model for Learning Topographically Organized Parts-Based Representations of Objects in Visual Cortex: Topographic Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. NEURAL COMPUTATION. 2009. 21.9. 2605-2633
Masahiro Kawasaki, Masataka Watanabe, Jiro Okuda, Masamichi Sakagami, Kazuyuki Aihara. Human posterior parietal cortex maintains color, shape and motion in visual short-term memory. BRAIN RESEARCH. 2008. 1213. 91-97
Kazushi Maruya, Hiroki Watanabe, Masataka Watanabe. Adaptation to invisible motion results in low- level but not high-level aftereffects. JOURNAL OF VISION. 2008. 8. 11. 7.1-11
Masahiro Kawasaki, Masataka Watanabe. Oscillatory gamma and theta activity during repeated mental manipulations of a visual image. NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS. 2007. 422. 2. 141-145
Matsumoto, N.; Ide, D.; Watanabe, M.; Okada, M.: Retrieval Property of Attractor Network with Synaptic Depression. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 76 (8), 084005, S. 1 - 10 (2007)
Ryota Kanai, Masataka Watanabe. Visual onset expands subjective time. PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS. 2006. 68. 7. 1113-1123
N Matsumoto, D Ide, M Watanabe, M Okada. Synaptic depression enlarges basin of attraction. NEUROCOMPUTING. 2005. 65. 571-577
Okamoto, M Watanabe, K Aihara, S Kondo. An explanation of contextual modulation by short-range isotropic connections and orientation map geometry in the primary visual cortex. BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS. 2004. 91. 6. 396-407
Hidenori Watanabe, Masataka Watanabe, Kazuyuki Aihara, Shunsuke Kondo. Change of memory formation according to STDP in a continuous-time neural network model. Systems and Computers in Japan. 2004. 35. 12. 57-66
M Watanabe, K Aihara. A network of coincidence detector neurons with periodic and chaotic dynamics. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS. 2004. 15. 5. 980-986
H Urakubo, T Aihara, S Kuroda, M Watanabe, S Kondo. Spatial localization of synapses required for supralinear summation of action potentials and EPSPs. JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE. 2004. 16. 3. 251-265
浦久保秀俊, 渡辺正峰，近藤駿介. ニューロン発火関数とSTDPの相互作用　電子情報通信学会論文誌，2004. D-II, J87, 2, 695-704

Masataka Watanabe, Tomohiro Masuda, Kazuyuki Aihara. Forward propagating reinforcement learning - Biologically plausible learning method for multi-layer networks. BioSystems. 2003. 71. 1-2. 213-220
井出大介，松本有央，，渡辺正峰，岡田真人. 減衰シナプスをもつアトラクターネットワークの想起特性　電子情報通信学会論文誌, 2004. D-II, 9, 1842-1850
渡辺秀典，渡辺正峰，合原一幸，近藤駿介. 連続時間型連想記憶モデルにおけるSTDPによる記憶の貯
蔵構造変化電子情報通信学会誌, 2002. Vol.J85-D2, No.3, 504-513
浦久保秀俊、渡辺正峰:ペアリング周波数に依存するシナプス学習則、電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, 2002. NC2001-162, 227-233.
Watanabe, M., Ishizaki, R. and Aihara, K.(2002）A novel illusion involving complex motion and MT-MST cortical interaction. METR, 2002-11
M Watanabe, K Nakanishi, K Aihara. Solving the binding problem of the brain with bi-directional functional connectivity. NEURAL NETWORKS. 2001. 14. 4-5. 395-406
Watanabe, M., Aihara, K., Takahashi, Y. and Kondo, S. Associative memory model with temporal coding and active dendrite. Biosystems, 2000. 58, 259-263
渡辺正峰, 合原一幸:デュアルコーディングとネットワークダイナミクス; 興奮性-抑制性ニューロンの発火バランスによるニューロン時定数の変化,信学技報, 45, 31-36, 2000.
浦久保秀俊, 渡辺正峰:積分発火ニューロンモデルを用いたスパイクネットワークの理論的解析,信学技報, 2000. 45, 37-42.

M Watanabe, K Aihara, S Kondo. A dynamic neural network with temporal coding and functional connectivity. BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS. 1998. 78. 2. 87-93
M Watanabe, K Aihara. Chaos in neural networks composed of coincidence detector neurons. NEURAL NETWORKS. 1997. 10. 8. 1353-1359
Watanabe, M., Aihara, K. and Kondo, S. Automatic learning in chaotic neural networks. ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN JAPAN PART III-FUNDAMENTAL ELECTRONIC SCIENCE 1996. 79 (3): 87-93 MAR

渡辺正峰，合原一幸, 近藤駿介. カオスニューラルネットワークによる自動学習　電子情報通信学会論文誌A, 1995. Vol.J78-A, No.6, 686-691

Books

Masataka Watanabe, From Biological to Artificial Consciousness, Springer, 2022
渡边正峰, 大脑的意识，机器的意识：脑神经科学的挑战, 北京大学出版社　2021
渡辺正峰, 脳の意識　機械の意識 - 脳神経科学の挑戦 - , 中央公論新社 2017
渡辺正峰,「意識」, 編集村上郁也, イラストレクチャー　認知神経科学,オーム社, 2010
Aihara, K.; Okada , M.; Adachi, M.; Watanabe, M.: Neural Networks and Architectures. In: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Vol. 14, pp. 2588 - 2592 (Eds. Binder, M.; Hirokawa, N.; Windhorst, U.). Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009
渡辺正峰,「視覚的意識」, 編集合原一幸　神埼亮平, 理工学系からの脳科学入門, 東京大学出版会, 2008
Asai, H.; Koshizen, T.; Watanabe, M.; Tsujino, H.; Aihara, K.: Cognitive User Modeling Computed by a Proposed Dialogue Strategy Based on an Inductive Game Theory. In: Machine Learning and Robot Perception, pp. 325 - 351 (Eds. Apolloni, B.; Ghosh, A.; Alpaslan, F.; Jain, L.; Patnaik, S.). Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2005
渡辺正峰, 合原一幸, 機能的結合による文脈依存性情報処理と記憶学習,脳の高次機能, 丹治順，吉澤修治 (編),122-135, 朝倉書店, 2001
Watanabe, M., Aihara, K. and Kondo, S. Self-organization dynamics in chaotic neural networks. Control and Chaos, Kevin Judd(eds.), 320-332, 1997

Presented at an International Conference

Watanabe, M.: Cracking neural consciousness by machine consciousness. Second Meeting of Consciousness Research Network (CoRN 2019), Okazaki, Japan, 2019
Delong, P.; Giani, A.; Aller, M.; Rohe, T.; Conrad, V.; Watanabe, M.; Noppeney, U.: The invisible ventriloquist: can unaware flashes alter sound perception? BNA 2017 Festival of Neuroscience (British Neuroscience Association), Birmingham, UK, 2017
Totah, N.; Watanabe, M.; Logothetis, N.; Eschenko, O.: Deciphering the roles of attention and arousal in learning. The Brain Conferences: New Insights into Psychiatric Disorders through Computational, Biological, and Developmental Approaches, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016
Kwon, S.; Watanabe, M.; Bartels, A.: Top-down attention de-correlates early visual cortex. 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2015), Chicago, IL, USA, 2015
Loewe, S.; Watanabe, M.; Logothetis, N.; Busse, L.; Katzner, S.: Temporal predictability of visual target onset by audition leads to decrease in evoked neural activity in mouse V1. 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2015), Chicago, IL, USA, 2015
Watanabe, M.; Loewe, S.; Vaiceliunaite, A.; Logothetis, N.; Katzner, S.; Busse, L.: Behavioral and neural effects of visual masking and optogenetic V1 suppression in mice. 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2015), Chicago, IL, USA, 2015
Watanabe, M.: A Turing Test for Visual Qualia and the Chaotic Spatiotemporal Fluctuation Hypothesis. Stanford University: Center for the Explanation of Consciousness, Stanford, CA, USA, 2014　招待講演
Watanabe, M.; Totah, N. K.; Kaiser, K.; Löwe, S.; Logothetis, N. K.: Visual backward masking in rats: A behavioral task for studying the neural mechanisms of visual awareness. 44th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2014), Washington, DC, USA, 2014
Watanabe, M.: A Turing Test for Visual Qualia: An Experimental Method to Test Various Hypotheses on Consciousness. In 20th Anniversary Conference Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC 2014), p. 120. 20th Anniversary Conference Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC 2014), Tucson, AZ, USA, April 21, 2014 - April 26, 2014.
Watanabe, M.: Is the primary visual cortex modulated by visual awareness? Durham University: Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition, Durham, UK, 2013 招待講演
Watanabe, M.: Is the primary visual cortex modulated by visual awareness? University of Glasgow: Seminar Series in Psychology, Glasgow, UK, 2013招待講演
Kwon, S.; Watanabe, M.; Fischer, E.; Bartels, A.: Effects of visual attention on BOLD signal variance. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2012), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2012
Watanabe, M., Shinohara, S. and Shimojo, S. Auditory-motor delay adaptation modulates subjective simultaneity of visually observed other’s action and auditory stimuli. 6th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, 2006
Watanabe, H., Maruya, T. and Watanabe, M.. Motion aftereffects under complete binocular rivalry suppression.6th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, 2006
Kawasaki, M., Watanabe, M., Okuda, J. and Sakagami, M. SFS for feature selective maintenance, IPS for simple maintenance in visual working memory. 6th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, 2006
Kawasaki, M., Watanabe, M., Okuda, J. and Sakagami, M. Feature integration in visual working memory - An fMRI study 13th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2006
Watanabe, M., and Aihara, K. Dynamic hierarchical firing within a single layered network: A model of the PFC. Proc. of 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning- From Interaction to Cognition-, 49-51, 2005
Kawasaki, M., Watanabe, M., and Aihara, K. Impaired visual working memory capacity in case of motion direction and color-shape binding. Proc. of 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning- From Interaction to Cognition, 58-61, 2005
Watanabe, M. and Shimojo, S. Dynamic, not static, mae follows the illusory percept. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Vol. 5, Number 8, Abstract 925, 925a, 2005
Kawasaki, M. and Watanabe, M. Interference between motion direction and color-shape in visual working memory capacity of multi-dimensional objects. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Vol. 5, Number 8, 622a, 2005
Okamoto, T., Ikezoe, K., Watanabe,M, Tamura, H., Fujita, I. and Kazuyuki, A. Spatial organization of orientation preferences along radial direction from pinwheel centers in monkey striate cortex. The 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience abstract, 2005
Okamoto, T., Ikezoe, K., Watanabe,M. and Kazuyuki, A. Spatial distribution of orientation preferences in monkey primary visual cortex. International Symposium on Emergent Mechanisms of Communication (IEMC),128-130, 2004
Kawasaki, M. and Watanabe, M. ERPs in frontal and occipital areas during two stage manipulation of visual working memory. Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Working Memory, B2-87, 2004
Watanabe, M., Maeda, F. and Shimojo, S. Bi-directional transfer of motion aftereffect between vision and audition. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting , 4, 8, 696a, 2004
Okamoto, T., Watanabe,M. and Kondo, S. Computational prediction about localization of functions in primary visual cortex. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience abstract, 2003
Watanabe, M. and Aihara, K. Perceptual Stability of Complex Motion：psychophysics and model. International Symposium on Emergent Mechanisms of Communication, 45-49, 2003
Watanabe, M., Masuda, T. and Sakagami, M. Comparing PFC neuronal activity with the model “forward propagating reinforcement learning” in the selective attention task. The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience abstract, 2002
Okamoto, T., Watanabe,M. and Kondo, S. Differences in function between pinwheels and linear zones in the primary visual cortex.The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience abstract, 2002
Watanabe, M. and Aihara, K. Forward Propagating Reinforcement Learning. Abstracts of Topics in Biomathematics and Related Computational　Problems, 86-87, 2002
Urakubo, S. and Watanabe, M. Timing Window Prediction of Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity by Modeling [Ca2+]in in a Spine. Abstracts of Topics in Biomathematics and Related Computational　Problems, 112-113, 2002
Urakubo, S. and Watanabe, M. Areas of Calcium Influx by Pairing Stimulation and Heterosynaptic Plasticity. Proc. 9th ICONIP, Vol.1, 25-29, 2002
Urakubo, S. and Watanabe, M. [Ca2+]in transient in spines of a model CA1 pyramidal cell in pairing protocol, Proc. 9th ICONIP, Vol.3, 1490-1494, 2002
Watanabe, M. Contextual modulation with functional connectivity in a spiking neural network. Proc. of 10th International Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, 2001
Watanabe, H., Watanabe, M., Aihara, K. and Kondo, S. The Shift of Memory Formation According to the Temporal Hebbian Learning Rule in a Continuous-time Neural Network Model. Proc. of 2000 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, 153-156, 2000
Urakubo, S., Watanabe, M. and Kondo, S. Estimation of Spatiotemporal Structure of Spike Driven Networks by the Theory of Probabilistic Firing Neurons. Proc. of 2000 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, 157-160, 2000
Watanabe, M. and Aihara, K. Contextual modulation with reinforcement learning in a temporal coding neural network. Proc. of 2000 International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, B3-1, 2000
Watanabe, M. and Aihara, K. Associative memory model with temporal spike coding and active　dendrite. Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Neuronal Coding '99, 139-142, 1999
Watanabe, M. and Aihara, K. Learning in Software Driven Neural Networks. Proc. of 1999 International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, B3-1, 1999
Watanabe, M. and Aihara, K. What Functional Connectivity Can Do : Software Driven Neural　Networks. Proc. of 1998 International Conference on Neural Information　Processing, 1370-1374, 1998
Nakanishi, K., Watanabe, M. and Aihara, K. Solving the Binding Problem with Dynamical Cell Assembly. Proc. of 1997 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, 633-636, 1997
Watanabe, M. and Aihara, K. A Neural Model for Temporal Pulse Coding. Proc. of 1997 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, 637-639, 1997
Watanabe, M. and Aihara, K. Dynamics of Temporal Coding Neural Networks. The 4th Tsukuba International Workshop on Chaos Turbulence, 1996
Watanabe, M., Aihara, K. and Kondo, S. Spatio-temporal summation and self-organization in chaotic neural networks. Proc. of 1995 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, 3150-3153, 1995
Watanabe, M., Aihara, K. and Kondo, S. Automatic learning in chaotic neural networks. Proc. of 1994 IEEE Symposium on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 245-248, 1994

Domestic Conferences

- 渡辺正峰, 意識を科学する - 自然則、人工意識、主観テスト - Scientific Approach to Consciousness 　　- Law of Nature, Artificial Consciousness and its Subjective Test -, 第20回冬のワークショップ　脳と人工知能 Brain and artificial intelligence, 2020
- Watanabe, M.: Mouse primary visual cortex is not part of the reverberant neural circuitry critical for visual perception. 5th Mini-Symposium on Cognition, Decision-Making and Social Function: In Memory of Kang Cheng, Wakō, Japan, 2017
- Watanabe, M.: Visual Backward Masking and Optogenetic V1 Suppression in Mice: Turing Test for Machine Consciousness and its Validation using Split-Brain Mice. Consciousness Club Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2016
- 渡辺正峰, 視覚的意識の内容変化に応ずる脳部位, 第13回冬のワークショップ　脳と人工知能　"Brain and artificial intelligence", 2013