Masataka Watanabe

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Masataka Watanabe is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Masataka Watanabe has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 11 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Masataka Watanabe's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (29 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (16 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). Masataka Watanabe is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (29 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (16 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). Masataka Watanabe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Germany and United Kingdom. Masataka Watanabe's co-authors include Hiroaki Niki, Masamichi Sakagami, Kunio Kohata, Nikos K. Logothetis, Kazuo Hikosaka, Shuichiro Shirakawa, Yusuke Murayama, Kazuyuki Aihara, Keiji Tanaka and Kang Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Masataka Watanabe

60 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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Reward expectancy in primate prefrental neurons

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Brightness illusions drive a neuronal response in the primary visual cortex under top-down modulation 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Kun Wang, (unknown), Andreas Bartels, Nikos K. Logothetis, Nelson K. Totah, Masataka Watanabe	1
2	Estimating Return Intervals for Extreme Climate Conditions Related to Winter Disasters and Livestock Mortality in Mongolia 2021 ·Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University) ·Masahiko Haraguchi, Nicole Davi, Mukund Palat Rao, Caroline Leland, Masataka Watanabe, Upmanu Lall	2
3	In situ estimation of optical properties of rat and monkey brains using femtosecond time-resolved measurements 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·Yoko Hoshi, Yukari Tanikawa, Eiji Okada, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Masahito Nemoto, Kosuke Shimizu, Tohru Kodama, Masataka Watanabe	15
4	The role of sub-second neural events in spontaneous brain activity 2014 ·Current Opinion in Neurobiology ·Esther Florin, Masataka Watanabe, Nikos K. Logothetis	14
5	Mirror Adaptation in Sensory-Motor Simultaneity 2011 ·PLoS ONE ·Masataka Watanabe, (unknown), Shinsuke Shimojo	8
6	Awareness of Central Luminance Edge is Crucial for the Craik-O?Brien-Cornsweet Effect 2011 ·Frontiers in Human Neuroscience ·(unknown), Junji Watanabe, Masahiko Terao, Masataka Watanabe, Akihiro Yagi, Kazushi Maruya	4
7	Opposing Effects of Contextual Surround in Human Early Visual Cortex Revealed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Continuously Modulated Visual Stimuli 2010 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Satohiro Tajima, Masataka Watanabe, (unknown), Kenichi Ueno, Takeshi Asamizuya, Pei Sun, Keiji Tanaka, Kang Cheng	18
8	Acquisition of nonlinear forward optics in generative models: Two-stage “downside-up” learning for occluded vision 2010 ·Neural Networks ·Satohiro Tajima, Masataka Watanabe	1
9	Neural representation of reward 2008 ·Ken‐Ichiro Tsutsui, Masataka Watanabe	4
10	Adaptation to invisible motion results in low-level but not high-level aftereffects 2008 ·Journal of Vision ·Kazushi Maruya, (unknown), Masataka Watanabe	62
11	Integration of Cognitive and Motivational Information in the Primate Lateral Prefrontal Cortex 2007 ·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Masamichi Sakagami, Masataka Watanabe	39
12	Role of anticipated reward in cognitive behavioral control 2007 ·Current Opinion in Neurobiology ·Masataka Watanabe	43
13	Visual onset expands subjective time 2006 ·Perception & Psychophysics ·Ryota Kanai, Masataka Watanabe	46
14	Change of memory formation according to STDP in a continuous-time neural network model 2004 ·MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) ·Hidenori Watanabe, Masataka Watanabe, Kazuyuki Aihara, Shunsuke Kondo	2
15	Spatial Localization of Synapses Required for Supralinear Summation of Action Potentials and EPSPs 2004 ·Journal of Computational Neuroscience ·Hidetoshi Urakubo, Takeshi Aihara, Shinya Kuroda, Masataka Watanabe, Shunsuke Kondo	10
16	Solving the binding problem of the brain with bi-directional functional connectivity 2001 ·Neural Networks ·Masataka Watanabe, (unknown), Kazuyuki Aihara	13
17	Associative memory model with temporal spike coding and active dendrite 2000 ·Biosystems ·Masataka Watanabe, Yohei Takahashi, Kazuyuki Aihara	1
18	What Functional Connectivity Can Do : Software Driven Neural Networks 1998 ·International Conference on Neural Information Processing ·Masataka Watanabe, Kazuyuki Aihara	8
19	Determination of bioconcentration potential of tetrachloroethylene in marine algae by 13C 1996 ·Chemosphere ·Xiulin Wang, Shigeki Harada, Masataka Watanabe, Hiroshi Koshikawa, (unknown), (unknown)	4
20	Reward expectancy in primate prefrental neurons breakdown → 1996 ·Nature ·Masataka Watanabe	530

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