Study of Columnar Structures in Human Inferotemoral Cortex Using High-Field fMRI

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20300114
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Neuroscience in general
• Research Institution: The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
• Principal Investigator: CHENG Kang 独立行政法人理化学研究所, 認知機能表現研究チーム, 副チームリーダー (70425635)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2011
• Keywords: ヒト / IT野 / 物体視 / 高解像度fMRI / 事象関連fMRI実験課題 / 顔写真 / モープィング / 連続刺激

Research Abstract

We have performed experiments in order to improve the signal to noise ratio(SNR) of high-resolution echo-planar imaging(EPI) images around human inferotemporal cortex. To achieve this goal, we have adjusted experimental parameters using phantoms as well as human subjects by implementing novel parallel imaging techniques and using RF coils specifically designed for these experiments. In addition, using EPI at conventional spatial resolutions, we have localized object-category related brain regions around human fusiform gyrus as well as surrounding cortical regions. Substantial advancement has been made in revealing object-related columnar structures in these object-related inferotemporal cortical regions in experiments using high-resolution approaches.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Processing o f infant-directed speech by adults (2011)
  • Author(s): Matsuda, Y., Ueno, K., Waggoner, R. A., Erickson, D., Shimura, Y., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K., and Mazuka, R.
  • Journal Title: Neu roImage Volume: 54 Pages: 611-621
• [Journal Article] Neural bases of intuitive best next-move generation in board game experts (2011)
  • Author(s): Wan, X.-H., Nakatani, H., Ueno, K., A samizuya, T., Cheng, K., and Tanaka, K.
  • Journal Title: Science Volume: 331 Pages: 341-346
• [Journal Article] Decoding color responses in human visual cortex (2011)
  • Author(s): Kuriki, I., Nakamura, S., Sun, P., U eno, K., Matsumiya, K., Tanaka, K., Shioiri, S., and Cheng, K.
  • Journal Title: IEICE Trans. Fundamentals Commun. Electron. Inf. & Syst Volume: E94A Pages: 473-479
• [Journal Article] Recent progress in high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (2011)
  • Author(s): Cheng, K.
  • Journal Title: Current Opinion in Neurology Volume: 24 Pages: 401-408
• [Journal Article] Attention but not awareness modulates the BOLD signal in human V1 during binocular suppression (2011)
  • Author(s): Watanabe, M., Cheng, K., Marayama, Y., Ueno, K., Asamizuya, T., Tanaka, K., and Logothetis, N.
  • Journal Title: Science Volume: 334 Pages: 829-832
• [Journal Article] Neural correlates of species-typical illogical cognitive bias in human inference (2010)
  • Author(s): Ogawa, A., Yamazaki, Y., Ueno, K., Cheng, K., and Iriki, A.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Volume: 22 Pages: 2120-2130
• [Journal Article] Opposing effects of contextual surround in human early visual cortex revealed by fMRI with continuously modulated visual stimuli (2010)
  • Author(s): Tajima, S., Watanabe, M., Imai, C., Ueno, K., Asamizuya, T., Sun, P., Tanaka, K., and Cheng, K.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Neuroscience Volume: 30 Pages: 3264-3270
• [Journal Article] Creating a population-averaged standard brain template for Japanese macaques(M. fuscata) (2010)
  • Author(s): Quallo, M., Price, C. J., Ueno, K., Asamizuya, T., Cheng, K., Lemon, R. N., and Iriki, A.
  • Journal Title: NeuroImage Volume: 52 Pages: 1328-1333
• [Journal Article] Inferential reasoning by exclusion recruits parietal and prefrontal cortices (2010)
  • Author(s): Ogawa, A., Yamazaki, Y. Ueno, K., Cheng, K., and Iriki, A.
  • Journal Title: NeuroImage Volume: 52 Pages: 1603-1610
• [Journal Article] Correction of 3D rigid body motion in fMRI time series by independent estimation of rotational and translational effects in k-space (2009)
  • Author(s): Costagli, M., Waggoner, R. A., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K., and Cheng, K.
  • Journal Title: Neuroimage Volume: 45 Pages: 749-757
• [Journal Article] Grey and white matter changes associated with tool-use learning in macaque monkey (2009)
  • Author(s): Quallo, M., Price, C. J., Ueno, K., Asamizuya, T., Cheng, K., Lemon, R. N., and Iriki, A.
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Volume: 106 Pages: 18379-18384
• [Journal Article] Effects of shifting perspective of the self : an fMRI study (2008)
  • Author(s): Kenichi Ueno, Akitoshi Ogawa, Kang Cheng, Raffaella I. Rumiati, Atsushi Iriki
  • Journal Title: Neuroimage Volume: 40 Pages: 1902-1911
• [Journal Article] ヒト視覚野の視野表現地図と機能構造のfMRI研究 (2008)
  • Author(s): 程康、上野賢一
  • Journal Title: 実験医学 Volume: 26 Pages: 165-172
• [Journal Article] New horizons for the next era of human brain imaging, cognitive, and behavioral research : Pacific Rim interactivity (2008)
  • Author(s): John Darrell Van Horn, Peter Bandettini, Kang Cheng, Gary, F. Egan, V. Andrew Stenger, Stephen Strother, Arthur W. Toga
  • Journal Title: Brain Imaging and Behavior Volume: 2 Pages: 227-231
• [Journal Article] Revealing human ocular dominance columns using high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging
  • Author(s): Cheng, K.
  • Journal Title: NeuroIamge Volume: (in press)
• [Presentation] Comparison of human face and object response visual areas mapped by spin-echo and gradient-echo fMRI (2011)
  • Author(s): Tanskanen, T., Waggoner, R. A., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K., and Cheng, K.
  • Organizer: The 40^<th> Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
  • Place of Presentation: Washington, D. C., USA
  • Year and Date: 2011-11-14
• [Book] ビジュアル脳神経外科2-側頭葉、後頭葉 (2010)
  • Author(s): Tanskanen Topi、上野賢一、程康
  • Total Pages: 8
  • Publisher: メジカルビュー社
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  • URL: http://www.brain.riken.jp/en/rrc_fmri.html
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  • URL: http://www.riken.jp/engn/r-world/research/lab/nokagaku/rrc/func/index.html