Shinji Kakei

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Shinji Kakei is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Shinji Kakei has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 29 papers in Neurology and 19 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Shinji Kakei's work include Motor Control and Adaptation (25 papers), Vestibular and auditory disorders (25 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (16 papers). Shinji Kakei is often cited by papers focused on Motor Control and Adaptation (25 papers), Vestibular and auditory disorders (25 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (16 papers). Shinji Kakei collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Belgium. Shinji Kakei's co-authors include Donna S. Hoffman, Peter L. Strick, Yoshikazu Shinoda, Takahiro Ishikawa, Jongho Lee, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Mitoma, Mario Manto, Saeka Tomatsu and Thierry Wannier and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Shinji Kakei

64 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Muscle and Movement Representations in the Primary Motor Cortex

1999 571 citations Shinji Kakei, Donna S. Hoffman et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shinji Kakei Japan	22	1.5k	695	603	498	425	64	2.3k
Michael A. Dimyan United States	17	2.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.5×	620 1.0×	678 1.4×	418 1.0×	24	3.1k
J. G. Keating United States	13	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.8×	586 1.0×	431 0.9×	550 1.3×	14	2.7k
William A. MacKay Canada	25	2.0k 1.3×	734 1.1×	565 0.9×	602 1.2×	406 1.0×	58	2.6k
D. Flament United States	21	1.2k 0.8×	741 1.1×	311 0.5×	573 1.2×	285 0.7×	27	1.7k
Numa Dancause Canada	26	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	596 1.0×	395 0.8×	285 0.7×	69	2.6k
Donna S. Hoffman United States	21	1.7k 1.1×	419 0.6×	344 0.6×	763 1.5×	506 1.2×	30	2.2k
Junichi Ushiba Japan	32	2.4k 1.6×	620 0.9×	1.2k 2.0×	1.2k 2.3×	199 0.5×	143	3.3k
Allan M. Smith Canada	25	1.7k 1.1×	365 0.5×	350 0.6×	936 1.9×	241 0.6×	46	2.3k
J. Hore Canada	33	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	573 1.0×	829 1.7×	474 1.1×	52	2.9k
Stefano Ferraina Italy	32	3.9k 2.5×	523 0.8×	369 0.6×	551 1.1×	944 2.2×	80	4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shinji Kakei

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All Works

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Kakei, Shinji, et al.. (2025). The Cerebellum as a Predictor: Recent Insights Into Cognitive Control and Extension of Kalman Filter Theory to Cognition. Discovery Medicine. 37(196). 791–791. 1 indexed citations

Michikawa, Takayuki, Takamasa Yoshida, Takahiro Ishikawa, et al.. (2021). Distributed sensory coding by cerebellar complex spikes in units of cortical segments. Cell Reports. 37(6). 109966–109966. 9 indexed citations

Kakei, Shinji, et al.. (2021). Pathophysiology of Cerebellar Tremor: The Forward Model-Related Tremor and the Inferior Olive Oscillation-Related Tremor. Frontiers in Neurology. 12. 694653–694653. 12 indexed citations

Cabaraux, Pierre, et al.. (2020). Dysmetria and Errors in Predictions: The Role of Internal Forward Model. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(18). 6900–6900. 23 indexed citations

Lee, Jongho, et al.. (2017). Quantitative evaluation of age-related decline in control of preprogramed movement. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0188657–e0188657. 6 indexed citations

Lee, Jongho, et al.. (2016). Motor control characteristics for circular tracking movements of human wrist. Advanced Robotics. 31(1-2). 29–39. 10 indexed citations

Ishikawa, Takahiro, Saeka Tomatsu, Jun Izawa, & Shinji Kakei. (2015). The cerebro-cerebellum: Could it be loci of forward models?. Neuroscience Research. 104. 72–79. 86 indexed citations

Ishikawa, Takahiro, Shinji Kakei, & Hiroshi Mitoma. (2015). Overlooked Holmes’ clinical signs: reevaluation by recent physiological findings. PubMed. 2(1). 13–13. 11 indexed citations

Takeda, Takahiro, Toshiki Uchihara, Yuki Nakayama, et al.. (2014). Dendritic retraction, but not atrophy, is consistent in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-comparison between Onuf’s neurons and other sacral motor neurons-. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 2(1). 11–11. 14 indexed citations

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Uehara, Shintaro, Isao Nambu, Michikazu Matsumura, Shinji Kakei, & Eiichi Naito. (2012). Prior Somatic Stimulation Improves Performance of Acquired Motor Skill by Facilitating Functional Connectivity in Cortico-Subcortical Motor Circuits. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science. 2(3). 343–356. 6 indexed citations

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Uehara, Shintaro, Isao Nambu, Saeka Tomatsu, et al.. (2011). Improving Human Plateaued Motor Skill with Somatic Stimulation. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e25670–e25670. 9 indexed citations

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Kakei, Shinji, et al.. (2008). Reaction time changes with the hazard rate for a behaviorally relevant event when monkeys perform a delayed wrist movement task. Neuroscience Letters. 433(2). 152–157. 13 indexed citations

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Lee, Jongho, Yasuhiro Kagamihara, & Shinji Kakei. (2007). Development of a quantitative evaluation system for motor control using wrist movements--an analysis of movement disorders in patients with cerebellar diseases.. PubMed. 55(10). 912–21. 8 indexed citations

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Takashima, Ichiro, et al.. (2007). Impairment of the discrimination of the direction of single-whisker stimulation induced by the lemniscal pathway lesion. Neuroscience Research. 57(4). 579–586. 8 indexed citations

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Kakei, Shinji, Donna S. Hoffman, & Peter L. Strick. (1999). Muscle and Movement Representations in the Primary Motor Cortex. Science. 285(5436). 2136–2139. 571 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shinoda, Yoshikazu, et al.. (1996). Chapter 5 Morphology of single axons of tectospinal and reticulospinal neurons in the upper cervical spinal cord. Progress in brain research. 112. 71–84. 9 indexed citations

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Shinoda, Yoshikazu, et al.. (1996). Four Convergent Patterns of Input from the Six Semicircular Canals to Motoneurons of Different Neck Muscles in the Upper Cervical Cord. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 781(1). 264–274. 15 indexed citations

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Kakei, Shinji, T. Futami, & Yoshikazu Shinoda. (1996). Projection pattern of single corticocortical fibers from the parietal cortex to the motor cortex. Neuroreport. 7(14). 2369–2372. 8 indexed citations

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Kakei, Shinji, et al.. (1994). Innervation of multiple neck motor nuclei by single reticulospinal tract axons receiving tectal input in the upper cervical spinal cord. Neuroscience Letters. 172(1-2). 85–88. 23 indexed citations

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Shinoda, Yoshikazu, Tohru Ohgaki, Yuriko Sugiuchi, Takahiro Futami, & Shinji Kakei. (1992). Functional Synergies of Neck Muscles Innervated by Single Medial Vestibulospinal Axons^a. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 656(1). 507–518. 8 indexed citations

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