Research field (3):
Experimental psychology
, Basic brain sciences
, Neuroscience - general
Research keywords (6):
category theory
, qualia structure
, qualia
, emotion
, attention
, consciousness
Research theme for competitive and other funds (9):
2023 - 2028 Experimental Psychology and Mathematics of Qualia Structures
2023 - 2028 Qualia Structure: Establishing super-interdisciplinary research program to bridge a gap between subjective conscious experience and scientific objectivity
2022 - 2027 Establishment of a foundation for quantum cognitive neuroscience research using quantum probability theory
2020 - 2023 Understanding qualia structures through massive psychophysics and mathematical phenomenology
2020 - 2023 Understanding the relationship between the structure of qualia and the structure of information processing extracted from brain activity
2020 - 2023 Understanding relationships between qualia structures and (brain-derived) information structures
2018 - 2022 Fear memory formation mechanisms in sensory cortices.
2013 - 2016 Mediation-theoretical development of phenomenology on the basis of Husserl's and Tanabe Hajime's philosophy
2009 - 2011 高次認知機能に関わる電気生理信号の解読と電気刺激による制御
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Papers (158):
Yusuke Moriguchi, Ryoichi Watanabe, Chifumi Sakata, Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Jue Wang, Noburo Saji, Naotsugu Tsuchiya. Comparing color qualia structures through a novel similarity task in young children versus adults. 2024
Antonio Maffei, Filippo Gambarota, Mario Liotti, Roberto Dell'Acqua, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Paola Sessa. Conscious perception of fear in faces: Insights from high-density EEG and perceptual awareness scale with threshold stimuli. Cortex. 2024. 174. 93-109
Elise G. Rowe, Marta I. Garrido, Naotsugu Tsuchiya. Feedforward connectivity patterns from visual areas to the front of the brain contain information about sensory stimuli regardless of awareness or report. Cortex. 2024. 172. 284-300
Thomas Quettier, Elena Moro, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Paola Sessa. When mind and body align: examining the role of cross-modal congruency in conscious representations of happy facial expressions. Cognition and Emotion. 2024. 38. 2. 267-275
Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Peter D Bruza, Makiko Yamada, Hayato Saigo, Emmanuel Pothos. A Quantum Qualia hypothesis: from Quantum Cognition to Quantum Perception. 2023
Genji Kawakita, Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Masafumi Oizumi. Comparing Color Similarity Structures between Humans and LLMs via Unsupervised Alignment. 2023
Yusuke Moriguchi, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Hayato Saigo. Structure in cognitive developmental research: An approach from a mathematical category theory. Shinrigaku Kenkyu. 2023. 94. 4. 329-340
Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Hayato Saigo. A relational to consciousness: categories of level and contents of consciousness. NEUROSCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 2021. 7. 2
Mohammad Shehata, Miao Cheng, Angus Leung, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Daw-An Wu, Chia-huei Tseng, Shigeki Nakauchi, Shinsuke Shimojo. Team flow is a unique brain state associated with enhanced information integration and neural synchrony. bioRxiv. 2020
Beyond the "Neural Correlates of Consciousness" : Characterizing the structure of consciousness and information and identifying their relationship. 2020. 49. 3. 319-326
2005 - 2010 Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology Postdoc
2000 - 2005 Computation & Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology Graduate Stucdent
1996 - 2000 京都大学 大学生
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Awards (5):
2015 - Japan Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award
2014 - Minister of Education Culture, Sports, Science and Technology The Young Scientists’ Prize: The Commendation for Science and Technology
2009 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award for competitive young researchers
2008 - Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness William James Prize
2005 - Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Best Student Presentation Award
Association Membership(s) (6):
日本神経科学学会
, Cognitive Neuroscience Society
, Computational and Systems Neuroscience
, Society for Neuroscience
, Association for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness
, Vision Science Society