Research Summary

Selected Publications

• 1.Yamazaki Y, Hikishima K, Saiki M, Inada M, Sasaki E, Lemon R, Price C, Okano H, and Iriki A.:
  "Neural changes in the primate brain that illustrate the evolution of complex motor skills.",
  Sci Rep, 6, 31804 (2016)
• 2.Hihara S, Taoka M, Tanaka M, Iriki A.:
  "Visual responsiveness of the neurons in secondary somatosensory area and its surrounding parietal opperculum regions of awake macaque monkeys"
  Cereb Cortex, 25, 4535-4550.(2015)
• 3.Hashikawa T, Nakatomi R, Iriki A.:
  "Current models of the marmoset brain"
  Neurosci Res, 93,116-127.(2015)
• 4.Hashimoto T, Kitajo K, Kajihara T, Ueno K, Suzuki C, Asamizuya T, Iriki A.:
  "Neural correlates of electrointestinography: insular activity modulated by signals recorded from the abdominal surface."
  Neuroscience, 289, 1-8.(2015)
• 5.Pfenning AR, Hara E, Whitney O, Rivas MV, Wang R, Roulhac P, Howard JT, Wirthli M, Lovell PV,
  Ganapathy G, Mouncastle J, Moseley MA, Thompson JW, Soderblom EJ, Iriki A, Kato M, Gilbert
  MTP, Zhang G, Bakken T, Bongaarts A, Bernard A, Lein E, Mello CV, Hartemink AJ, Jarvis ED.:
  "Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song learning birds."
  Science, 346, no. 6215, doi: 10.1126/science.1256846.(2014)
• 6.Ferrari PF, Tramacere A, Simpson EA, Iriki A.:
  "Mirror neurons through the lens of epigenetics."
  Tr Cogn Sci, 17, 450-457.(2013)
• 7.Yoshida K, Saito N, Iriki A, and Isoda M.:
  "Social error monitoring in macaque frontal cortex."
  Nat Neurosci (2012)
• 8.Iriki A, and Taoka M.:
  "Triadic (ecological, neural, cognitive) niche construction: a scenario of human brain evolution extrapolating tool use and language from the control of reaching actions."
  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 367(1585), 10-23 (2012)
• 9.Quallo MM, Price CJ, Ueno K, Asamizuya T, Cheng K, Lemon RN, and Iriki A.:
  "Gray and white matter changes associated with tool-use learning in macaque monkeys."
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106, 18379-84 (2009)
• 10.Iriki A.:
  "The neural origins and implications of imitation, mirror neurons and tool use."
  Curr Opin Neurobiol, 16(6), 660-7 (2006)

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