Publications
Research outputs and publications
Featured Publications
Brightness illusions drive a neuronal response in the primary visual cortex under top-down modulation
Saeedi, A.; Wang, K.; Nikpourian, G.; Bartels, A.; Logothetis, N. K.; Totah, N. K.; Watanabe, M.
Nature Communications, 15:3141, 2024
View Details脳の意識 機械の意識 - 脳神経科学の挑戦 -
渡邉正峰
中央公論新社, 2017
Temporal Jitter of the BOLD Signal Reveals a Reliable Initial Dip and Improved Spatial Resolution
Watanabe, M.; Bartels, A.; Macke, J. H.; Murayama, Y.; Logothetis, N. K.
Current Biology, 23(21): 2146-2150, 2013
Attention But Not Awareness Modulates the BOLD Signal in the Human V1 During Binocular Suppression
Watanabe, M.; Cheng, K.; Murayama, Y.; Ueno, K.; Asamizuya, T.; Tanaka, K.; Logothetis, N.
Science, 334(6057): 829-831, 2011
Books
意識の不思議
渡邉正峰
筑摩書房, 2025
意識はどこからやってくるのか
信原幸弘・渡邉正峰
早川書房, 2025
意識の脳科学
渡邉正峰
中央公論新社, 2024
From Biological to Artificial Consciousness
Masataka Watanabe
Springer, 2022
脳の意識 機械の意識 - 脳神経科学の挑戦 -
渡邉正峰
中央公論新社, 2017
Journal Articles
Aberrant prefrontal activity and arousal level correlate with action initiation and response vigor in rats
Klein, F. J.; Vasilev, D.; Iwai, R.; Watanabe, M.; Totah, N. K.
iScience, 115804, 2026
Longitudinal single neuron electrophysiology in the mouse visual cortex using microwire brush arrays
Saeedi, A.; Wang, K.; Logothetis, N. K.; Watanabe, M.
Journal of Radiology and Clinical Imaging, 7 (2), 9-19, 2024
Brightness illusions drive a neuronal response in the primary visual cortex under top-down modulation
Saeedi, A.; Wang, K.; Nikpourian, G.; Bartels, A.; Logothetis, N. K.; Totah, N. K.; Watanabe, M.
Nature Communications, 15:3141, 2024
Mouse primary visual cortex in not part of the reverberant neural circuitry critical for visual perception
Watanabe, M.; Nagaoka, S.; Kirchberger, L.; Poyraz, E.; Lowe, S.; Uysal, B.; Vaiceliunaite, A.; Totah, N.; Logothetis, N et al.
(in revision),
Attachment for a skull of a rat and method for installing the attachment
Totah, N.; Watanabe, M.
US Patent App. 17/674,970,
Conference Papers
Unsupervised Future-Predictive Learning in the Connectome-Constrained Drosophila Optical Lobe
Nishiura, N.; Toyoda, K.; Watanabe, M.
8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2025),
Training the Drosophila Connectome as an Autoencoder - Reproduction of Direction Selectivity in T4/T5 Cells
Nishiura, N.; Toyoda, K.; Watanabe, M.
34th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2025),
Cracking neural consciousness by machine consciousness
Watanabe, M.
Second Meeting of Consciousness Research Network (CoRN 2019),
The invisible ventriloquist: can unaware flashes alter sound perception?
Delong, P.; Giani, A.; Aller, M.; Rohe, T.; Conrad, V.; Watanabe, M.; Noppeney, U.
BNA 2017 Festival of Neuroscience (British Neuroscience Association),
Deciphering the roles of attention and arousal in learning
Totah, N.; Watanabe, M.; Logothetis, N.; Eschenko, O.
The Brain Conferences: New Insights into Psychiatric Disorders through Computational, Biological, and Developmental Approaches,