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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.