Nakai Tomoya

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Chief Researcher
Homepage URL (1)： https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zfU6gw8AAAAJ&hl=en

Research field (1)： Basic brain sciences

Research theme for competitive and other funds (11)：

2024 - 2028 数学の脳情報表現に対する計算論的アプローチ
2024 - 2026 Validation of the symbolic estrangement hypothesis using computational modeling and developmental neuroimaging
2024 - 2026 Building brain computational models for symbol sequence prediction
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

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Papers (34)：

Tomoya Nakai, Charlotte Constant-Varle, Jérôme Prado. Encoding models for developmental cognitive computational neuroscience: Promise, challenges, and potential. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2024. 101470
Tomoya Nakai, Coumarane Tirou, Jérôme Prado. From brain to education through machine learning: Predicting literacy and numeracy skills from neuroimaging data. Imaging Neuroscience. 2024
Charlotte Constant-Varlet, Tomoya Nakai, Jérôme Prado. Intergenerational transmission of brain structure and function in humans: a narrative review of designs, methods, and findings. Brain Structure and Function. 2024
Toshiki Okumura, Ikuhiro Kida, Atsushi Yokoi, Tomoya Nakai, Shinji Nishimoto, Kazushige Touhara, Masako Okamoto. Semantic context-dependent neural representations of odors in the human piriform cortex revealed by 7T MRI. Human Brain Mapping. 2024. 45. 6
Daiki Matsumoto, Tomoya Nakai. Syntactic theory of mathematical expressions. Cognitive Psychology. 2023. 146. 101606

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MISC (21)：

Tomoya Nakai, Rieko Kubo, Shinji Nishimoto. Cortical representational geometry of diverse tasks reveals subject-specific and subject-invariant cognitive structures. bioRxiv. 2024
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

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Lectures and oral presentations (55)：

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)
Connecting categorical and distributed brain representations of complex human cognition
(Araya Research Seminar 2023)

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Education (3)：

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)：

Work history (4)：

2023/06 - 現在 Araya Inc. R & D Department Chief Researcher
2021/04 - 2023/05 Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) Centre de recherches en neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL) Postdoctoral 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

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