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Welcome to Kentaro Miyamoto's web page.

My research interests are the neural mechanisms of cognition unique to humans: "what makes humans be humans."

I am especially interested in neurobiological processes of decision making: how information from the external world are processed, monitored, evaluated, and utilized to take the next reasonable actions in humans. I am attempting to solve the research questions by multidisciplinary approaches (experimental cognitive psychology, visual psychophysics, neurophysiological methods [fMRI and electrophysiology], comparative psychology and neurophysiology in primates).

Ongoing research projects:

- Neural mechanism of 'prospective metacognition' (metacognition for future decision making)

Related work:

Miyamoto et al., 2021, Neuron, 109.

- Neural mechanism of 'metamemory' (metacognition on memory) in primates.

Related works:

Miyamoto et al., 2017, Science, 355(6321).

Miyamoto et al., 2018, Neuron, 97(4).

- Visual functions of the "photosensitive" blind spot in humans.

Related works:

Miyamoto and Murakami, 2015, Sci. Rep., 5.

Saito et al., 2018, Sci. Rep., 8.

Past research projects:

- Cognitive control processes of memory retrieval in the whole-brain network in primates.

Related works:

Miyamoto et al., 2013, Neuron, 77(4).

Osada et al., 2015, Plos. Biol., 13(6).

- Parallel encoding processes of recognition memory in primates

Related work:

Miyamoto et al., 2014, J. Neurosci., 34.