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| Gentaro TagaSummaryAffiliation: University of Tokyo Country: Japan Publications
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Visual feature binding in early infancyGentaro Taga
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Japan
Perception 31:273-86. 2002....
Brain imaging in awake infants by near-infrared optical topographyGentaro Taga
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:10722-7. 2003..This result introduces near-infrared optical topography as a method for investigating the functional development of the brain in early infancy...- Hemodynamic responses to visual stimulation in occipital and frontal cortex of newborn infants: a near-infrared optical topography studyGentaro Taga
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Early Hum Dev 75:S203-10. 2003..These results suggest that the cerebrovascular coupling is already functioning in newborn's brain. The prefrontal activation implies that it may contribute to early processing of sensory signals... 
Spatiotemporal properties of cortical haemodynamic response to auditory stimuli in sleeping infants revealed by multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopyGentaro Taga
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 369:4495-511. 2011..We argue that multi-channel NIRS is capable of detecting the precise timing of cortical activation and its flow in the global network of the developing brain...- Selectivity and localization of cortical response to auditory and visual stimulation in awake infants aged 2 to 4 monthsGentaro Taga
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Neuroimage 36:1246-52. 2007.... - Effects of source-detector distance of near infrared spectroscopy on the measurement of the cortical hemodynamic response in infantsGentaro Taga
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Neuroimage 38:452-60. 2007.... - General to specific development of functional activation in the cerebral cortexes of 2- to 3-month-old infantsHama Watanabe
Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Neuroimage 50:1536-44. 2010..This result suggests that functional cortical regions emerge between 2 and 3 months of age for visual perception... - Prefrontal cortical involvement in young infants' analysis of noveltyTamami Nakano
Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Cereb Cortex 19:455-63. 2009.... - Activation and deactivation in response to visual stimulation in the occipital cortex of 6-month-old human infantsHama Watanabe
Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Dev Psychobiol 54:1-15. 2012.... - Developmental emergence of self-referential and inhibition mechanisms of body movements underling felicitous behaviorsHama Watanabe
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:1157-73. 2011..The emergence of differentiation of behaviors points toward the development of self-referential and inhibition mechanisms in the perceptual-motor and attention/evaluation system in the cortico-subcortical network... - Treadmill experience alters treadmill effects on perceived visual motionYoshiko Yabe
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
PLoS ONE 6:e21642. 2011..This suggests that the long-term repetitive experience of treadmill walking without optic flow induced the formation of a treadmill-specific locomotor-visual linkage to perceive the complex relationship between self and the environment... - A NIRS-fMRI study of resting state networkShuntaro Sasai
Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Neuroimage 63:179-93. 2012.... - Increasing selectivity of interlimb coordination during spontaneous movements in 2- to 4-month-old infantsNao Kanemaru
Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1, Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Exp Brain Res 218:49-61. 2012..These findings suggest that the dissociated movements of a selective combination of arms or legs during spontaneous movements may be a precursor to functionally dissociated movements during goal-directed behaviors... - Decrease in cortical activation during learning of a multi-joint discrete motor taskTsuyoshi Ikegami
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Exp Brain Res 191:221-36. 2008..Our results suggest that the decrease in cortical activation in the sensorimotor cortex reflects changes in motor commands during learning of a multi-joint discrete movement... - Anticipatory cortical activation precedes auditory events in sleeping infantsTamami Nakano
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo, Japan
PLoS ONE 3:e3912. 2008..In the present study, we expected that when an auditory cue (beeps) predicted an auditory event (a female voice), specific regions of the infant cortex would show anticipatory activation before the event onset even while sleeping... - Functional activation in diverse regions of the developing brain of human infantsHama Watanabe
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
Neuroimage 43:346-57. 2008.... - Flexibility in infant actions during arm- and leg-based learning in a mobile paradigmHama Watanabe
Japan Science and Technology Agency, CREST, Japan
Infant Behav Dev 32:79-90. 2009..The results suggest that the infants' flexibility of actions in a novel situation depends on the prior experience. We speculate neural mechanisms, which may underlie the difference between the arm-based and leg-based learning... - The right hemisphere of sleeping infant perceives sentential prosodyFumitaka Homae
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi Center Building, Kawaguchi shi, Saitama
Neurosci Res 54:276-80. 2006..Our findings suggest that prosodic processing in the right hemisphere may facilitate the acquisition of lexical or syntactic knowledge in the early stages of language development... - General to specific development of movement patterns and memory for contingency between actions and events in young infantsHama Watanabe
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi shi, Saitama, Japan
Infant Behav Dev 29:402-22. 2006.... - Prosodic processing in the developing brainFumitaka Homae
CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4 1 8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332 0012, Japan
Neurosci Res 59:29-39. 2007..We propose that speech processing in the infant brain develops from analyzing pitch information per se, to comparing and integrating information in input speech sounds with acquired prosodic structures... - Effect of auditory input on activations in infant diverse cortical regions during audiovisual processingHama Watanabe
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Hum Brain Mapp 34:543-65. 2013..The present study implies that 3-month-old infants may perceive audio-visual multisensory inputs by using the global network of functionally differentiated cortical regions... - Initial-state dependency of learning in young infantsHama Watanabe
Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hum Mov Sci 30:125-42. 2011.... - Asymmetric transfer of visuomotor learning between discrete and rhythmic movementsTsuyoshi Ikegami
Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
J Neurosci 30:4515-21. 2010.... - Frequency-specific functional connectivity in the brain during resting state revealed by NIRSShuntaro Sasai
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo, Japan
Neuroimage 56:252-7. 2011..The present study demonstrated that NIRS provides a powerful tool to elucidate network properties of the cortex during resting state... - Treadmill locomotion captures visual perception of apparent motionYoshiko Yabe
Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo, Japan
Exp Brain Res 191:487-94. 2008..This finding suggests that the effect reflects a perceptual mechanism to compensate for the absence of inputs in the action-perception cycle during locomotion... - Frame of reference for visual perception in young infants during change of body positionKeisuke Kushiro
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsucho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto 606 8501, Japan
Exp Brain Res 183:523-9. 2007....