Research Outline

What kind of brain mechanisms allow us to experience ourselves and the outside world?
Do we all share the same perceptual experiences, or are they unique to each individual?

At the CiNet Hagura Group, we believe these fundamental questions are closely connected to the brain mechanisms that enable us to adaptively control our movements within the environment.

  • How are motor memories embedded in different environments and contexts?
  • How do our actions influence and potentially limit our perceptual and cognitive abilities?
  • How do we learn to perceive our own actions, body size, and shape through sensorimotor experiences?

To address these questions, we employ psychophysical methods, computational modeling, neuroimaging, and neurostimulation techniques.

Through our research, we aim to challenge and refine our understanding of human nature.

Key Publications

Upcoming

  • 2025.2.19: Nobu will be giving a talk at the seminar series held at Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University (Tokyo).

What's New

  • 2024.12.25
    Jumpei Mizuno's work is published as preprint. Contextual History Guides Spatial Attention During Search. Part of the collabration with Prof. Jun Saiki's group at Kyoto University.

    2024.12.3
    For their presentation at the the 88th Annual Meeting of Japanese Psychological Association, Ryo Ishibashi (researcher) received a "Special Excellent Presentation Award", and Shunsuke Takeshige (Master student) received "Excellent Presentation Award". Congrats, Ryo and Shunsuke! Well deserved.

    2024.11.15
    Nobu gave a talk at Crowd Gognition Group in Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Always fun to talk with Bahador! Was great to catch up with Takamitsu, who also gave a talk.

    2024.9.27
    Nobu wrote a short commentary about decision making and motor cost on Journal of Neurophysiology as Editorial Focus. It describes about the work by Canaveral et al. 2024 published in Journal of Neurophysiology.

    2024.9.7
    Nobu has recieved The Japanese Psychological Association International Award. He gave an awardee lecture at the 88th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association in Kumamoto, titled "Thinking about cognition through the window of motor control".

    2024.8.22-24
    18th Japanese Motor Control Meeting (MC18), chaired by Nobu, has been held successfully in Osaka, with the largest number of participants since this meeting has started! We really appreciate all of you for making the meeting lively and exciting. See you next year!

    2024.8.14
    The paper from our group, Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory was picked up as Spotlight in Trends in Cognitive Science with a commentary from Prof. Daichi Nozaki (Tokyo Univ.).

    2024.7.12
    Nobu presented his work at APCV 2024 SG, in a symposium organised by Shao-Min Hung and Hsin-I Iris Liao.

    2024.6.28
    Motoko's proposal has been accepted to the Next Generation Researcher Development Project. Congratulations!

    2024.6.11
    Kisho Ogasa's paper is accepted to Nature Human Behaviour, and is now published online Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory. Congrats Kisho!

    2024.4.22
    Ryo Ishibashi's work is published as preprint. Distributed and convergent representations of tools in human parietal and anterior temporal regions revealed by fMRI-RSA

    2024.4.15-19
    Ryo, Jumpei and Motoko presented each of their work as a poster, and Nobu presented Kisho's work as a oral presentation at 33rd Annual Meeting of Neural Control of Movement (Dubrovnik, Croatia)

    2024.3.31
    Barbora Michalidesova finished her term and returned back to Leiden. We will keep collaborating. Thanks Barbora, and we shall keep in touch!

    2024.3.31
    Rio Shimomura sucessufully obtained his masters degree and has started working as a gaming programmer. Without him, the setting up of the lab would have been very slow. Thanks Rio, all the best for your new adventure!

    2024.1.4
    Motoko has won the Best Poster Presentation award at CiNet general conference (internal conference), and Nobu became the table tennis champion of CiNet, with Barbora as a runner-up. Congrats, Motoko and Barbora! Well deserved.

    2023.10.2
    Barbora Michalidesova joined our group as an intern student from Leiden University to setup/run the collaboration study. She will be working with us until March 2024. Welcome to CiNet, Barbora!

    2023.9.17
    Nobu presented his research at the symposium in 87th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association.

    2023.7.6 - 2023.8.22
    Matthew Longo spent this summer with us in CiNet, developping new collaborations. Thanks Matt! We learned a lot from you.

    2023.7.1
    Jumpei Mizuno and Ryohei Obata joined our group as researcher and research assistant, respectively. Welcome to CiNet, Jumpei and Ryohei!

    2023.6.30
    Jie moved to Kyoto University to take a position as HAKUBI assistant professor! Congrats Jie! It was wonderful to spend time with you. All the best for your new adventure!

    2023.4.20
    Nobu made a poster presentation in Neural control of Movement (NCM2023). Collaboration work with Masaya Hirashima (CiNet) and Honda R&D.

    2023.4.1
    Motoko Nogami and Shunsuke Takeshige are the new members of our group this year (PhD students). Welcome to CiNet, Motoko and Shunsuke! We are happy that Rio Shimomura will be also keep staying with us this year (visiting student).

    2023.3.15
    Preprint from our lab is now in bioRxiv, led by Kisho Ogasa (previous posdoc researcher, now, ass. prof. in Fukuoka Univ.).

    2023.3.11
    8th CiNet Conference has been successfully held. More than 120 people (60 each for onsite/online) continously participated every day. Thank you all for participating. Let's keep in touch for future collaborations!

    2023.3
    A metanalysis paper about neurofeedback training is now published in NeuroImage. Nobu participated as a co-author.

    2023.1.5
    Happy New Year! Dr. Ryo ISHIBASHI has joined our group as a researcher. Welcome to CiNet, Ryo!

    2022.12.26
    Our lab member, GAO Jie has been awarded a fellowships from the prestegious Kyoto University Hakubi Project! Congratulations Jie! She will be continuing her research with us in CiNet until Summer 2023

    2022.12.22
    The detail of the 8th CiNet Conferenceis now open. It will be held on March 7th-9th 2023, and Nobu is organising this. Stay tuned!

    2022.11.21
    Our paper regarding motor cost and perceptual decisions has been accepted to PLoS One. Collabration with the Crowd Cognition Group in Germany.

    2022.11.12-15
    Motoko Nogami's application for Autumn School for Computational Neuroscience (ASCONE) was accepted, and she attended the 3-days intense workshop in Chiba. Congrat's Motoko!

    2022.10.01
    Dr. Jie GAO joined our group as a researcher. Welcome, Jie!

    2022.9.14
    Nobu is giving a talk at Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior, Kyoto University (EHUB).

    2022.9.5
    Rio Shimomura joined our group as an internship student. He will stay with us for half a year. Welcome, Rio!

    2022.8.26
    Nobu presented his (or Kisho Ogasa's!) work at the 16th meeting of the Japanese Society for Motor control. He also served as a member of the program commitee of the meeting. Such a fun meeting every year!

    June 1, 2022
    Motoko Nogami joined our group as a research assistance. Welcome, Motoko!

    June 1, 2022
    The website of Hagura Group has been opened.

    Aril 1, 2021
    Hagura Group has started in CiNet.
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