Masaya Hirashima

Original article, review article

1. Nozaki D, Yokoi A, Kimura T, Hirashima M, Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry. Tagging motor memories with transcranial direct current stimulation allows later artificially-controlled retrieval. eLife 2016;10.7554/eLife.15378.
2. Hirashima M, Oya T. How does the brain solve muscle redundancy? Filling the gap between optimization and muscle synergy hypotheses. Neuroscience Research. 104: 80-87, 2016.
3. Hayashi T, Yokoi A, Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Visuomotor map determines how visually guided reaching movements are corrected within and across trials. eNeuro 2016; 10.1523/ENEURO.0032-16.2016.
4. Takiyama K, Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Prospective errors determine motor learning. Nature Communications, 6:5925, 2015.
5. Kadota H, Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Functional modulation of corticospinal excitability with adaptation of wrist movements to novel dynamical environments. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(37): 12415-12424, 2014.
6. Yokoi A, Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Lateralized sensitivity of motor memories to the kinematics of the opposite arm reveals functional specialization during bimanual actions. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(27): 9141-9151, 2014.
7. Kato M, Hirashima M, Oohashi H, Watanabe H, Taga G. Decomposition of spontaneous movements of infants as combinations of limb synergies. Experimental Brain Research. 232(9): 2919-2930, 2014.
8. Fujii S, Watanabe H, Oohashi H, Hirashima M, Nozaki D, Taga G. Precursors of dancing and singing to music in three- to four-months-old infants. PLoS One. 9(5): e97680, 2014.
9. Kasuga S, Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Simultaneous processing of information on multiple errors in visuomotor learning. PLoS One. 8(8): e72741, 2013.
10. Honda T, Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Habituation to feedback delay restores degraded visuomotor adaptation by altering both sensory prediction error and the sensitivity of adaptation to the error Frontiers in Psychology. 3:540, 2012.
11. Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Learning with slight forgetting optimizes sensorimotor transformation in redundant motor systems. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(6):e1002590, 2012.
12. Honda T, Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Adaptation to visual feedback delay influences visuomotor learning. PLoS One. 7(5):e37900, 2012.
13. Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Distinct motor plans form and retrieve distinct motor memories for physically identical movements. Current Biology. 22 (5):432-436, 2012.
14. Ikegami T, Hirashima M, Osu R, Nozaki D. Intermittent visual feedback can boost motor learning of rhythmic movements: evidence for error feedback beyond cycles. Journal of Neuroscience. 32 (2):653-657, 2012.
15. Hirashima M. Induced acceleration analysis of three-dimensional multi-joint movements and its application to sports movements. In: Theoretical Biomechanics, V. Klika, ed. (InTech), pp. 303-318, 2011.
16. Yokoi A, Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Gain field encoding of the kinematics of both arms in the internal model enables flexible bimanual action. Journal of Neuroscience. 31 (47):17058-17068, 2011.
17. Fujii S, Hirashima M, Kudo K, Ohtsuki T, Nakamura Y, and Oda S. Synchronization error of drum kit playing with a metronome at different tempi by professional drummers. Music Perception. 28(1):491-503, 2011.
18. Ikegami T, Hirashima M, Taga G, and Nozaki D. Asymmetric transfer of visuomotor learning between discrete and rhythmic movements. Journal of Neuroscience. 30 (12):4515-4521, 2010.
19. Miyazaki M, Hirashima M, and Nozaki D. The "Cutaneous Rabbit" hopping out of the body. Journal of Neuroscience. 30 (5):1856-1860, 2010.
20. Hirashima M, Yamane K, Nakamura Y, and Ohtsuki T. Kinetic chain of overarm throwing in terms of joint rotations revealed by induced acceleration analysis. Journal of Biomechanics. 41 (13):2874-2883, 2008.
21. Hirashima M, Ohtsuki T. Exploring the mechanism of skilled overarm throwing. Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews. 36 (4):205-211, 2008.
22. Hirashima M, Kudo K, Watarai K, and Ohtsuki T. Control of 3D limb dynamics in unconstrained overarm throws of different speeds performed by skilled baseball players. Journal of Neurophysiology. 97 (1):680-691, 2007.
23. Hirashima M, Kudo K, and Ohtsuki T. A new non-orthogonal decomposition method to determine effective torques for three-dimensional joint rotation. Journal of Biomechanics. 40 (4):871-882, 2007.
24. Kudo K, Miyazaki M, Kimura T, Yamanaka K, Kadota H, Hirashima M, Nakajima Y, Nakazawa K, Ohtsuki T. Selective activation and deactivation of the human brain structures between speeded and precisely timed tapping responses to identical visual stimulus: an fMRI study. NeuroImage. 22:1291-1301, 2004.
25. Hirashima M, Ohgane K, Kudo K, Hase K and Ohtsuki T. The counteractive relationship between the interaction torque and muscle torque at the wrist joint is predestined in ball-throwing. Journal of Neurophysiology. 90 (3):1449-1463, 2003.
26. Hirashima M, Kudo K and Ohtsuki T. Utilization and compensation of interaction torques during ball-throwing movements. Journal of Neurophysiology. 89 (4):1784-1796, 2003.
27. Hirashima M, Kadota H, Sakurai S, Kudo K and Ohtsuki T. Sequential muscle activity and its functional role in the upper extremity and trunk during overarm throwing. Journal of Sports Sciences. 20 (4):301-310, 2002.

Research

• Def muscle
• Motion Capture
• Neural Network

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• Graduate Student
• Postdoctoral Researcher

Link

• NICT
• CiNet
• Osaka University