Morimoto, Satoshi

写真a

Affiliation

Research Centers and Institutes, Keio University Global Research Institute （Mita）

Position

Project Assistant Professor (Non-tenured)/Project Research Associate (Non-tenured)/Project Instructor (Non-tenured)
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  • Two-in-one system and behavior-specific brain synchrony during goal-free cooperative creation: an analytical approach combining automated behavioral classification and the event-related generalized linear model

    Mingdi Xu, Satoshi Morimoto, Eiichi Hoshino, Kenji Suzuki, Yasuyo Minagawa

    Neurophotonics 10 （ 1 ） 013511 2023.02

    Lead author, Accepted

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    *Mingdi Xu and Satoshi Morimoto equally contributed to this work.

    Our proposed analytical approach combining computer vision and WTC-GLM can be applied to extract inter-brain synchrony associated with social behaviors of interest.

  • Effects of Hemodynamic Differences on the Assessment of Inter-Brain Synchrony Between Adults and Infants

    Satoshi Morimoto, Yasuyo Minagawa

    Frontiers in Psychology （Frontiers Media SA)  13   873796 2022.06

    Accepted

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    The simultaneous recording of brain activity in two or more people, termed hyperscanning, is an emerging field of research investigating the neural basis of social interaction. Hyperscanning studies of adult–infant dyads (e.g., parent and infant) have great potential to provide insights into how social functions develop. In particular, taking advantage of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for its spatial resolution and invulnerability to motion artifacts, adult–infant fNIRS may play a major role in this field. However, there remains a problem in analyzing hyperscanning data between adult and young populations. Namely, there are intrinsic differences in hemodynamic time latencies depending on age, and the peak latency of the hemodynamic response function (HRF) is longer in younger populations. Despite this fact, the effects of such differences on quantified synchrony have not yet been examined. Consequently, the present study investigated the influence of intrinsic hemodynamic differences on wavelet coherence for assessing brain synchrony, and further examined the statistical removal of these effects through simulation experiments. First, we assumed a social signal model, where one counterpart of the dyad (e.g., infant) sends a social signal to the other (e.g., parent), which eventually results in simultaneous brain activation. Based on this model, simulated fNIRS activation sequences were synthesized by convolving boxcar event sequences with HRFs. We set two conditions for the event: synchronized and asynchronized event conditions. We also modeled the HRFs of adults and infants by referring to previous studies. After preprocessing with additional statistical processing, we calculated the wavelet coherence for each synthesized fNIRS activation sequence pair. The simulation results showed that the wavelet coherence in the synchronized event condition was attenuated for the combination of different HRFs. We also confirmed that prewhitening via an autoregressive filter could recover the attenuation of wavelet coherence in the 0.03–0.1 Hz frequency band, which was regarded as being associated with synchronous neural activity. Our results showed that variability in hemodynamics affected the analysis of inter-brain synchrony, and that the application of prewhitening is critical for such evaluations between adult and young populations.

  • Toward Interactive Social Neuroscience: Neuroimaging Real-World Interactions in Various Populations

    Yasuyo Minagawa, Mingdi Xu, Satoshi Morimoto

    Japanese Psychological Research （Wiley)  60 （ 4 ） 196 - 224 2018.10

    Accepted,  ISSN  00215368

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    Human social activity is a continuous dynamic behavior consisting of live social signal exchanges; thus, studying interactions among multiple humans is critical to understanding social cognition. Indeed, social neuroscience focusing on such aspects—interactive social neuroscience—is an emerging field of interest. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has played a significant role in accelerating this field by enabling real-world neuroimaging for various populations. The present paper will first review previous hyperscanning studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and electroencephalography (EEG). We will then summarize attempts and findings of fNIRS hyperscanning studies on social interaction in adult populations. Finally, we will review recent investigations of interactive social neuroscience in young populations and show preliminary results from a mother–infant hyperscanning study. These studies have predominantly revealed synchronized brain activities between humans and have identified conditions in which such inter-personal connectivity was found to be increased. Furthermore, these studies suggest possible mechanisms of inter-brain coupling: a process that recruits both mirror system and mentalization networks. Although fNIRS hyperscanning of infants remains limited, the reviewed literature demonstrates significant potential for fNIRS to disclose the interactive social brain and its development.

  • Computational-Model-Based Analysis of Context Effects on Harmonic Expectancy

    Satoshi Morimoto, Gerard B. Remijn, Yoshitaka Nakajima

    PLOS ONE （PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE)  11 （ 3 ） e0151374 2016.03

    Lead author, Accepted,  ISSN  1932-6203

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    Expectancy for an upcoming musical chord, harmonic expectancy, is supposedly based on automatic activation of tonal knowledge. Since previous studies implicitly relied on interpretations based on Western music theory, the underlying computational processes involved in harmonic expectancy and how it relates to tonality need further clarification. In particular, short chord sequences which cannot lead to unique keys are difficult to interpret in music theory. In this study, we examined effects of preceding chords on harmonic expectancy from a computational perspective, using stochastic modeling. We conducted a behavioral experiment, in which participants listened to short chord sequences and evaluated the subjective relatedness of the last chord to the preceding ones. Based on these judgments, we built stochastic models of the computational process underlying harmonic expectancy. Following this, we compared the explanatory power of the models. Our results imply that, even when listening to short chord sequences, internally constructed and updated tonal assumptions determine the expectancy of the upcoming chord.

  • An introduction to the measurement of auditory event-related potentials (ERPs)

    Gerard B. Remijn, Emi Hasuo, Haruna Fujihira, Satoshi Morimoto

    Acoustical Science and Technology （Acoustical Society of Japan)  35 （ 5 ） 229 - 242 2014

    ISSN  1347-5177

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    In 1939, Pauline Davis reported the first study on event-related potentials (ERPs) performed on awake humans. ERPs are time-locked brain potentials that occur in response to cognitive, motor or perceptual events. The events used by Davis were sounds, and in the decades that followed her landmark study ERP research significantly contributed to the knowledge of auditory perception and neurophysiology we have today. ERPs are very well suited to study neural responses to sound stimuli, since the researcher can monitor the brain's registration of sound edges and spectral changes in sound on a millisecond-by-millisecond basis. In this overview we will introduce basic concepts of auditory ERP research. The overview includes descriptions of typical ERP components, experimental paradigms, sound stimuli, research methodology, and ways to analyze data.

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

  • Computational analysis of the neural mechanisms of social cues

    2023.04
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    2027.03

    若手研究, Principal investigator

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