Katsuyuki Sakai

Summary

Affiliation: University College London
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Active maintenance in prefrontal area 46 creates distractor-resistant memory
    K Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queeen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
    Nat Neurosci 5:479-84. 2002
  2. ncbi Parahippocampal reactivation signal at retrieval after interruption of rehearsal
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom
    J Neurosci 22:6315-20. 2002
  3. ncbi Learning of sequences of finger movements and timing: frontal lobe and action-oriented representation
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom
    J Neurophysiol 88:2035-46. 2002
  4. ncbi Prefrontal interactions reflect future task operations
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
    Nat Neurosci 6:75-81. 2003
  5. ncbi Chunking during human visuomotor sequence learning
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
    Exp Brain Res 152:229-42. 2003
  6. ncbi Reactivation of memory: role of medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
    Rev Neurosci 14:241-52. 2003
  7. ncbi Prefrontal selection and medial temporal lobe reactivation in retrieval of short-term verbal information
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
    Cereb Cortex 14:914-21. 2004
  8. ncbi The representation of abstract task rules in the human prefrontal cortex
    Sara L Bengtsson
    Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London UCL, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
    Cereb Cortex 19:1929-36. 2009
  9. ncbi Task set and prefrontal cortex
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Annu Rev Neurosci 31:219-45. 2008
  10. ncbi Is the prefrontal cortex necessary for establishing cognitive sets?
    James B Rowe
    Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom
    J Neurosci 27:13303-10. 2007

Detail Information

Publications17

  1. ncbi Active maintenance in prefrontal area 46 creates distractor-resistant memory
    K Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queeen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
    Nat Neurosci 5:479-84. 2002
    ..This may be mediated by interactions between prefrontal and posterior areas...
  2. ncbi Parahippocampal reactivation signal at retrieval after interruption of rehearsal
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom
    J Neurosci 22:6315-20. 2002
    ..The primary role of the PHC in retrieval may be to trigger the reactivation of these cortical areas that had maintained the remembered items, thereby reactivating the information that is no longer maintained on-line...
  3. ncbi Learning of sequences of finger movements and timing: frontal lobe and action-oriented representation
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom
    J Neurophysiol 88:2035-46. 2002
    ....
  4. ncbi Prefrontal interactions reflect future task operations
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
    Nat Neurosci 6:75-81. 2003
    ..Thus we have identified inter-regional interactions that reflect preparation for task performance...
  5. ncbi Chunking during human visuomotor sequence learning
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
    Exp Brain Res 152:229-42. 2003
    ..Together with our previous unit-recording and imaging studies that used the same learning paradigm, we predict specific roles of the dominant parietal area, basal ganglia, and presupplementary motor area in the chunking...
  6. ncbi Reactivation of memory: role of medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
    Rev Neurosci 14:241-52. 2003
    ..The prefrontal cortex also controls the selection of task-relevant information from information maintained on-line...
  7. ncbi Prefrontal selection and medial temporal lobe reactivation in retrieval of short-term verbal information
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
    Cereb Cortex 14:914-21. 2004
    ..By contrast, the activity in the middle frontal gyrus did not differ between the two conditions. Taking these results together, we have shown the double dissociation between the PFC and MTL in memory retrieval...
  8. ncbi The representation of abstract task rules in the human prefrontal cortex
    Sara L Bengtsson
    Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London UCL, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
    Cereb Cortex 19:1929-36. 2009
    ..We argue that the ventral prefrontal cortex is specialized for handling conditional rules regardless of how the task rules were established...
  9. ncbi Task set and prefrontal cortex
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Annu Rev Neurosci 31:219-45. 2008
    ..The processes of representing, updating, and implementing task sets occur in parallel at multiple levels of brain organization. Neural accounts of task sets demonstrate that the brain determines our thoughts and behaviors...
  10. ncbi Is the prefrontal cortex necessary for establishing cognitive sets?
    James B Rowe
    Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom
    J Neurosci 27:13303-10. 2007
    ..The results suggest that the left rostral prefrontal cortex is indeed required for establishing a cognitive set but that the essential function is to support the functional connectivity among the task-related regions...
  11. ncbi Reading hidden intentions in the human brain
    John Dylan Haynes
    Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
    Curr Biol 17:323-8. 2007
    ..Decoding of intentions was most robust from the medial prefrontal cortex, which is consistent with a specific role of this region when subjects reflect on their own mental states...
  12. ncbi Task-guided selection of the dual neural pathways for reading
    Kimihiro Nakamura
    Department of Speech Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Neuron 52:557-64. 2006
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  13. ncbi Prefrontal set activity predicts rule-specific neural processing during subsequent cognitive performance
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    J Neurosci 26:1211-8. 2006
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  14. ncbi Neural circuitry underlying rule use in humans and nonhuman primates
    Silvia A Bunge
    Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
    J Neurosci 25:10347-50. 2005
  15. ncbi Central mechanisms of motor skill learning
    Okihide Hikosaka
    Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 49, Room 2A50, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 12:217-22. 2002
    ..This architecture accounts for the seemingly diverse features of motor learning...
  16. ncbi The prefrontal cortex and working memory: physiology and brain imaging
    Dick Passingham
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 14:163-8. 2004
    ..We suggest that the key to prefrontal cortex lies not in the maintenance of sensory information but in the prospective use of that information for behaviour...
  17. ncbi Emergence of rhythm during motor learning
    Katsuyuki Sakai
    Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    Trends Cogn Sci 8:547-53. 2004
    ..In this way, organized motor skill can be performed automatically and flexibly...