Research theme for competitive and other funds (8)：
2021 - 2024 Prediction of individual differences in psychological characteristics based on multidimensional brain information and computational models
2021 - 2023 Prediction of Children's Mathematical Ability Using Longitudinal Brain Information and Application on Math Learning Difficulty
2020 - 2023 Quantitative Modeling for the Neural Basis of Mathematical Ability
2020 - 2022 Brain Information Modeling for Active Communication through Language and Music
2017 - 2020 Research on neuroplasticity in the visually and hearing impaired using multidimensional neuroimaging technology
2018 - 2019 Visualization of Subjective Unique Experiences Using Brain Activity Measurement
2018 - 2019 Construction of a quantitative model for hierarchical neural information representation in language and music
2014 - 2016 Interaction between language and mathematical tree structures by cross-domain structural priming: an fMRI study
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Papers (31)：
Tomoya Nakai, Rieko Kubo, Shinji Nishimoto. Cortical representational geometry of diverse tasks reveals subject-specific and subject-invariant cognitive structures. 2024
Daiki Matsumoto, Tomoya Nakai. Syntactic theory of mathematical expressions. Cognitive Psychology. 2023. 146. 101606
Tomoya Nakai, Laura Rachman, Pablo Arias Sarah, Kazuo Okanoya, Jean-Julien Aucouturier. Algorithmic voice transformations reveal the phonological basis of language-familiarity effects in cross-cultural emotion judgments. PLOS ONE. 2023. 18. 5. e0285028
Tomoya Nakai, Shinji Nishimoto. Artificial neural network modelling of the neural population code underlying mathematical operations. NeuroImage. 2023. 270. 119980-119980
Tomoya Nakai, Shinji Nishimoto. Quantitative modelling demonstrates format-invariant representations of mathematical problems in the brain. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2023. 57. 6. 1003-1017
Tomoya Nakai, Jérôme Prado. From brain to education through machine learning: Predicting literacy and numeracy skills from neuroimaging data. PsyArXiv. 2023
Timo I Denk, Yu Takagi, Takuya Matsuyama, Andrea Agostinelli, Tomoya Nakai, Christian Frank, Shinji Nishimoto. Brain2Music: Reconstructing Music from Human Brain Activity. arXiv. 2023
Tomoya Nakai, Shinji Nishimoto. Artificial neural network modelling of the neural population code underlying mathematical operations. bioRxiv. 2022
Tomoya Nakai, Shinji Nishimoto. Quantitative modeling demonstrates format-invariant representations of mathematical problems in the brain. bioRxiv. 2022
Tomoya Nakai. Book Review, Simon Baron-Cohen, The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention (Basic Books, 2020). Tokyo Academic Review of Books. 2022. 44
From symbolic grounding to symbolic estrangement - Changes in symbols and grounds through learning mathematics.
(Communication & What is Human? Seminar series. The 7th seminar. 2023)
Computational approach to brain mechanisms of mathematical cognition
(LaPsyDÉ Scientific Focus 2023)
Subject-invariant structures of multitask representations in the association cortices
(The 7th Japanese Meeting for Human Brain Imaging 2023)
Exploring the neural population code of mathematical thought: insights from distributed representations in artificial neural networks
(The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Neural Network Society 2023)
Brain representations of symbolic and non-symbolic quantity become estranged with education: Evidence from between-format and between-age decoding
(Flux 2022 2022)
2013 - 2017 the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Department of Life Science
2011 - 2013 the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Department of Basic Science
2006 - 2011 the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan College of Arts and Sciences Department of Basic Science
Professional career (1)：
Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)
Work history (4)：
2023/06 - 現在 Araya Inc. R & D Department Chief Researcher
2021/04 - 現在 Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) Centre de recherches en neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL) Postdoctoral fellow (Marie Curie fellow)
2017/04 - 2021/03 National Institute of Communications Technology (NICT) Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet) Researcher
2016/04 - 2017/03 Researcher, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities Department of Rehabilitation for Brain Functions Researcher
Awards (6)：
2020/10 - The 6th CREST Research Area Meeting 2020, Creation and development of core technologies interfacing human and information environments Distinguished Poster Award
2020/04 - Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication. The 4th Whole Group Meeting. Award of Excellence
2019/02 - Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication. The 3rd Whole Group Meeting. Prize for Encouragement
2015/11 - International Symposium Adolescent brain & mind and self-regulation, Young Investigators Award
2013/05 - Japan Student Services Organization, Category 1 Scholarships Repayment Exemption for Students with Excellent Grades
2013/03 - Prize for Encouragement, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo
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Association Membership(s) (2)：
THE JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
, THE JAPAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY
