【What's new】

● My New E-mail Address: funahashi.shintaro.35e@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp

● New Home Page Address: http://www.biwa.ne.jp/funahashi-ann/

● October 2016: A paper by S. Funahashi "Physical features of visual images affect macaque monkey's preference for these images" has been accepted in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.

● April 2016: A paper collaborated with Dr. Shigeru Shinomoto has been accepted by Journal of Neuroscience.

● April 2016: A paper written by Dr. Satoe Ichihara-Takeda, myself, and others had been published in Frontiers in Psychology.

● October 2015: The original article entitled "Prefrontal spatial working memory network predicts animal's decision making in a free choice saccade task" by Kei Mochizuki and Shintaro Funahashi has been accepted for publication in Journal of Neurophysiology.

● March 3, 2015; The original article entitled "A dual-task paradigm for behavioral and neurobiological studies in nonhuman primates" by Kei Watanabe and Shintaro Funahashi has been accepted for publication in Journal of Neuroscience Methods.

● January 9, 2015: The review paper entitled "Functions of delay-period activity in the prefrontal cortex and mnemonic scotomas revisited" by Shintaro Funahashi has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Systems Neurosicnece.

● July 26, 2014: The review paper entitled "Primate model of interference control" by Kei Watanabe and Shintaro Funahashi has been accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.

● June 10, 2014: The revirew paper entitled "Saccade-related activity in the prefrontal cortex: its role in eye movement control and cognitive functions" by Shintaro Funahashi has been published in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.

● May 21, 2014: Our paper entitle "Opposing history effect of preceding decision and action in the free choice saccade direction" by Key Mochizuki and myself was accepted for publication in Journal of Neurophysiology.

● May 13, 2014: Funahashi presented resent studies at the seminar in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Tecnology (KAIST).

● April 1, 2014: Our paper entitled "Neural mechanisms of dual-task interference and cognitive capacity limitation in the prefrontal cortex" by Key Watanabe and myself has been publised in Nature Neuroscience.

● April 1, 2014: Dr. Satoshi Nishida and Mr. Kei Mochizuki joined my research group as research scientists. Ms. Eriko Miyakawa and Ms. Aya Kuwahara joined my research group as graduate students.

● July 13, 2013: Funahashi's review article about cognitive functions of thalamic mediodorsal nucleus has been accepted for publication in Frontier in Neuroscience.

● May 1, 2013: Funahashi's review article about the prefrontal cortex and executive functions has been accepted for publication in Journal of Physiology Paris.

● May 2012: 3rd International Symposium on Prefrontal Cortex -Searching for Mechamism of Mind- will be held at Inamori Center, Kyoto University on November 29th and 30th, 2012.


● May 2012: "Macaque monkeys exhibit behavioral signs of metamemory in an oculomotor working memory task" by A. Tanaka and S. Funahashi has been accepted for publication in Behavioural Brain Research.

● April 2012: "Space representation in the prefrontal cortex" by S. Funahashi has been accepted for publication in Progress in Neurobiology.

● February 2012: "Thalamic mediodorsal nucleus and working memory" by Y. Watanabe and S.Funahashi has been published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review.

● January 27, 2011: Dr. Mark J. Buckley (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) will have a lecture at the lecture room (B23B) of the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies.

● December 20, 2010: Prof. Thomas Boraud ( University of Bordeaux II) had a lecture at the lecture room (B23A) of the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies.

● September 7, 2010: Dr. Makoto Kusunoki (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) had a lecture at the lecture rool (B23B) of the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies.

● May 24-30, 2010: Dr. Gianluigi Mongillo of Paris Rene Descartes University will visit our lab.

● May 17, 2009: Prof. Avi Sadeh's Lecture will be held at the Meeting Room of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building.

● Apr 23, 2010: Asso. Prof. Kowa Koida's Lecture was held at the Lecture Room of Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies.

● Apr 1, 2010: Kazuko Sakamoto, Hiromi Takahashi, and Keiki Li join our group as graduate students.

● Mar 16, 2010: Assi Prof. Ikuo Tanibuchi's lecture was held at the Lecture Room of Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies.

● Mar 14, 2010: A Symposium on Addictive Behavior was held at Clock Tower Memorial Building of Kyoto University.

● Feb 17, 2010: Dr. Tamami Fukushi's Lecture was held at the Meeting Room of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building.

● Jan 17, 2010: Prof. Atsushi Yamadori's lecture was held as Kokoro Lecture Series.

● Dec 24, 2009: Asso. Prof. Yoshimi Oshima's lecture was held at the Meeting Room of Inamori Memorial Hall.

● Nov 25, 2009: Prof. William T. Newsome's lecture will be held at the cenference room at Inamori Memorial Building.

● Nov 4, 2009: Asso. Prof. Satoshi Tsujimoto's lecture will be held at the lecture room of

● Oct 28, 2009: Prof. Shogo Sakata's lecture will be held at the lecture room of Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies.

● Oct 2009: Dr. Kei Watanabe, Mr. Akio Tanaka, Mr. Jorge Mario Andreau, and Ms. Mika Takebayashi will present their studies at the Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, held in Chicago.

● Oct 6, 2009: Dr. Naoko Inaba's lecture will be held at the lecture room of Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies..

● July 31, 2009: Prof. Daeyeol Lee's lecture will be held at Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.

● May 2009: A paper written by Kei Mochizuki and Shintaro Funahashi and a paper written by Mika Takebayashi and Shintaro Funahashi have been accepted for publication in Psychologia.

● May 28, 2009: Prof. Synnove Carlson's lecture will be held at Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.

● May 7, 2009: Watanabe, Takleda, and Funahashi's paper is published in Cerebral Cortex.

● May 1, 2009: Dr. Kazuhiro Goto join our laboratory as a senior research scientist.

● Apr 30, 2009: Dr. Hiroshi Ban quit assistant professor position and joined British neuroimaging laboratory.

● Apr 23, 2009: Prof. David Hansel's lecture will be held at Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.

● Apr 20-26, 2009: Prof. David Hansel will stay in our lab.

● Apr 1, 2009: Mr. Kei Mochizuki, Mr. Yuuji Nakagawa, and Mr. Yasuhito Konishi joined our group as graduate students.

● Mar 1, 2009: Kokoro Research Center International Workshop on "Gambling, Reward, Decision-Making, and the Prefrontal Cortex" will be held at Inamori Memorial Building, Kyoto University.

● Feb 28, 2009: 6th Kokoro Research Center Forum on "Dependence and Independence" will be held at Inamori Memorial Building, Kyoto University.

● Nov 2008: Akio Tanaka, Jorge Mario Andreau, and I attended the annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, which was held in Washington, D.C., and Akio and Mario had poster presentation of their research results.

● Oct 2008: Jorge Mario Andreau and I attended the Meeting of International Society of Comparative Psychology held at Buenos Aires and Mario had a poster presentation of his research results.

● Aug 25, 2008: An article "Population vector analysis of primate mediodorsal thalamic activity during oculomotor delayed-response performance" written by Y Watanabe, K Takeda, and S Funahashi is accepted for publication in Cerebral Cortex.

● Sep 15-19, 2008: Funahashi will have lectures at 5th European Conference on Complex Systems and its Satellite Meeting at Jerusalem, Israel.

● Sep 4, 2008: 27th "Kokoro" Seminar by Prof. Kazuo Okanoya (Riken Brain Science Institute).

● Aug 5, 2008: 3rd Meeting of Addiction Research will be held at Shiran-Kaikan Anex.

● July 28, 2008: Special lecture by Dr. Satomi Higuchi at Room 101, Yoshida-Minmi-Sogo-Kan.

● July 9-11, 2008: Our group presented 5 posters at the 31st Annual Meeting of Japan Neuroscience Society.

● June 8, 2008: Public Lectures "Learning Disorder (LD) and its Support" was held in Kyoto University.

● Apr, 2008: An article written by Satoe Ichihara-Takeda and Shintaro Funahashi has published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

● Mar 31, 2008: Funahashi had a lecture at International Symposium on Prefrontal Cortical Functions at Fudan University in Shanghai.

● Feb 17, 2008: 5th Kokoro Forum "Understanding the mind of dependence" at Inamori Hall, Shiran Kaikan.

● Oct 18, 2007: 20th "Kokoro" Seminar by Prof. Etsuro Mori (Tohoku University).

● Sep 10-12, 2007: 30th Japan Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (4 presentations from our lab.)

● Sep 11, 2007: 16th "Kokoro" Seminar by Dr. Kazuo Hiraki (University of Tokyo) .

● Aug 13, 2007: "Representation and Brain" (S. Funahashi, ed.) is published from Springer Verlag.

● Aug 2, 2007: 15th "Kokoro" Seminar by Prof. Kae Nakamura (Kansai Medical University).

● May 2007: An article written by Satoe Ichihara-Takeda and Shintaro Funahashi is accepted for publication in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

● May 23, 2007: 10th "Kokoro" Seminar by Prof. Takashi Omori (Tamagawa University)

● May 15, 2007: 9th "Kokoro" Seminar by Dr. Shinya Yamamoto (finished)

● May, 2007: An article written by Akio Tanaka and Shintaro Funahashi is accepted for publication in Primate Research

● Apr. 2007: An article written by Kei Watanabe and Shintaro Funahashi is accepted for publication in Cerebral Cortex.

● Apr 10, 2007: 1st "Kokoro" Scientific Meeting on Dependency (finished)

● Apr 1, 2007: Kyoto University Kokoro Research Center is opened.

● Home-page for "Kokoro Research Center" is now open for test.

● Mar. 2007: An article written by Satoe Ichihara-Takeda and Shintaro Funahashi is accepted for publication in Experimental Brain Research.

● Mar 13, 2007: 8th "Kokoro"Seminar by Dr. Katsumi Watanabe (University of Tokyo)

● Feb 19, 2007: 7th"Kokoro" Seminar by Dr. Michiyo Iba (Tamagawa University)

● Jan 22, 2007: 6th "Kokoro" Seminar by Dr. Takashi Okada (finished)