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Hisashi TANIGAWA
Introduction：
Dr. Tanigawa obtained his Ph.D. Degree from Osaka University Medical School, Japan, in 2001 (supervisor: Dr. Ichiro Fujita). He studied the organization of intrinsic horizontal connections in the inferior temporal cortex of macaque monkey using neuronal tracers. He worked as a postdoctoral associate in RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, from 2002 to 2006 (supervisor: Dr. Manabu Tanifuji), and in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, US, from 2007 to 2011 (supervisor: Dr. Anna W. Roe).He used intrinsic signal optical imaging to reveal the functional organization of higher visual areas of macaque, including visual area V4. Then, he was an assistant professor at Niigata University Medical School, Japan, from 2011 to 2013, and an associate professor at Niigata University Center for Transdisciplinary Research from 2013 to 2017. He started using electrocorticography (ECoG) to study synchronous oscillations of field potentials in the macaque inferior temporal and prefrontal cortices. He joined Zhejiang University, Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies, Interdisciplinary Institute of Neuroscience and Technology as an associate professor in May 2017.
The research goal of our laboratory is to understand the neural mechanisms underlying higher cognitive functions, including object recognition, attention, working memory, and long-term memory, in the primate cerebral cortex. Cortical areas involved in vision are organized hierarchically, and each has a functionally modular structure (functional domains or columns). In contrast to earlier visual areas (V1 and V2), the functional organization of higher visual and association areas have been less well studied, even though they play important roles in higher cognitive brain functions. We are studying the functional and anatomical organization of higher visual areas from area V4 to the area TE in the ventral visual processing stream, which is important for object recognition, and the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which mediates cognitive and executive controls. The work is conducted in macaque monkeys using a variety of research techniques including Intrinsic Signal Optical Imaging, Electrocorticography (ECoG), Multi-electrode array (MEA) recoding, and Neuronal tracing.
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