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Takashi Nakao, Ph.D

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Research Fellow (PD)

Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Institute of Mental Health Research Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, University of Ottawa
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS)

Research Interests:

Decision Making, Behavior Selection, Behavior Regulation, Social Cognition, Self-reference,
Self-reference effect, Mentalizing, Emotion, Consciousness,
Medial prefrontal cortex(MPFC), Anterior Cingulate Cortex(ACC)
fMRI, ERP, PDP

Professional Experience

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2011 April – present JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad (University of Ottawa)
2009 May – present Postdoctoral Fellow, (Dr. Georg Northoff), Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Institute of Mental Health Research Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, University of Ottawa, Canada.
2010 (Jan) - 2010 (Oct) Research Fellow of Excellent Young Researchers Overseas Visit Program.
2008 – 2010(Oct) Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiological Psychology Laboratory (Dr. Hideki Ohira), Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan.
2008 – 2010(Oct) Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.
2005 – 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Hiroshima University, Japan.
2004 – 2005 Part-time Lecturer, Kure Kyosai Hospital Nursing School, Japan.
2003 – 2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hiroshima University, Japan.

Education

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Ph. D., Institute: Department of Psychology, Graduate school of Education, Hiroshima University, 2006
M.A., Institute: Department of Psychology, Graduate school of Education, Hiroshima University, 2003
B.A., Institute: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hiroshima University, 2001

Publications - Articles in Scientific Journals

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[Refereed]

Iida, S., Nakao, T., & Ohira, H. (in press). Prior cognitive activity implicitly modulates subsequent emotional responses to subliminally presented emotional stimuli. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Nakao, T., Tokunaga, S., Takamura, M., Nashiwa, H., Hayashi, S., and　Miyatani, M. (2012). Altruistic people show no self-reference effect in memory. Journal of general psychology, 139, 29-41. [summary] [Email for pdf]
Iida, S., Nakao, T., & Ohira, H. (2011) Implicit attenuation of a subsequent emotion by cognitive activity. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 476-484. [summary]
Nakao, T., Ohira, H., and Georg Northoff (2010). Decision making and the medial prefrontal cortex function in social context. Japanese Journal of Physiological Psychology and Psychophysiology, 28(1), 45-55. (In Japanese)[pdf]
Nakao, T., Osumi, T., Ohira, H., Kasuya, Y., Shinoda, J., Yamada, J., & Northoff, G. (2010). Medial prefrontal cortex – dorsal anterior cingulate cortex connectivity during behavior selection without an objective correct answer. Neuroscience Letters, 482, 220-224.[summary] [Email for pdf]
Northoff, G., Qin, P., Nakao, T. (2010) Rest-stimulus interaction in the brain: A review. Trends in Neurosciences, 33, 277-284.[summary] [Email for pdf]
Nakao, T., Mitsumoto, M., Nashiwa，H., Takamura，M., Tokunaga, S., Miyatani，M., Ohira, H., Katayama, K., Okamoto, A., & Watanabe, Y. (2010). Self-knowledge reduces conflict by biasing one of plural possible answers, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 455-469.[summary] [Email for pdf]
Nakao, T., Osumi, T., Ohira, H., Kasuya, Y. Shinoda, J., & Yamada, J. (2009). Neural bases of behavior selection without an objective correct answer. Neuroscience Letters, 459, 30–34.[summary] [Email for pdf]
Nakao, T., Takezawa, T., Miyatani, M., & Ohira, H. (2009). Medial prefrontal cortex and cognitive regulation. Psychologia, 52, 93-109. [summary] [Email for pdf]
Nakao, T., Miyatani, M., Nakao, M. Takezawa, T., Maruishi, M., Muranaka, H., & Doujo, H. (2009). Does the medial prefrontal cortex activity during self-knowledge reference reflect uniqueness of self-knowledge? Japanese Psychological Research, 51, 69–84.[summary] [Email for pdf]
Nakao, T., Takezawa, T., Shiraishi, M., & Miyatani, M. (2009). Activation of self-knowledge reduces conflict during occupational choice: An ERP study. International Journal of Neuroscience, 119, 1640–1654.[summary]　[Email for pdf]
Ogata, A., Miyatani, M., Nakao, T., Shimazu, A., & Suzuki, S. (2008). Self-referent processing caused by anxiety: Effect on recall. Japanese Journal of Behavior Therapy, 34, 33-42. (in Japanese)
Nakao, T., & Miyatani, M (2007). Relation between self-knowledge reference and self-monitoring of emotional state. Japanese Psychological Research，49, 203-210. [summary]　[Email for pdf]
Maruishi M, Miyatani M, Nakao T, & Muranaka H. (2007). Compensatory cortical activation during performance of an attention task by patients with diffuse axonal injury: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 78, 168-173. 　[summary]
Nakao, T., Takezawa, T., Miyatani, M. (2006). Function of the medical prefrontal cortex: Benchmark hypothesis.　Japanese Psychological Review, 49, 592-612. (in Japanese) 　[summary(pdf)] 　[Email for fulltext(pdf)]
Nakao, T. (2005). Does self-monitoring invoke other-knowledge reference process? 　Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part. III, Education and Human Science, 54.247-255. (in Japanese) 　[pdf]
Nakao, T. & Miyatani, M. (2005). Affective integration speeds trait processing. Psychological Reports, 97, 810-818. 　[Email for pdf]
Nakao, T. & Miyatani, M. (2005). Self-reference in elaborative processing of desirability of trait adjectives. Psychological Reports, 96, 1055-1065. 　[Email for pdf]

[Not refereed]

Nakao, T., Mitsumoto, M., Katayama, K., & Miyatani, M. (2007). Conflict related negativity like component during occupational choice: An ERP study. Hiroshima Psychological Research, 7. 11-18. (in Japanese)[pdf]
Nakao, T., Miyatani, M. (2004). Effective instruction pairing for memory enhancement: Self-reference instruction is useful in educational situation. Hiroshima Psychological Research, 4, 11-17. (in Japanese) 　[pdf]
Nakao, T., Miyatani, M. (2004). Does other-referent process invoke evaluation process? Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part. III, Education and Human Science, 53, 291-296. (in Japanese) 　[pdf]
Takezawa, T., Nakao, M., Nakao, T., Miyatani, M. (2004). An ERP study on the quantitative relation between conflict and response inhibition. Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part. III, Education and Human Science, 53, 285-290. (in Japanese) 　[pdf]
Nakao, T., Miyatani, M. (2003). Does affective process mediate self-reference effect? Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part. III, Education and Human Science, 52, 291-296. (in Japanese) 　[pdf]
Nakao, M., Takezawa, T., Nakao, T. (2003). The effect of working memory load on event-related brain potentials during lexical decision task. Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part. III, Education and Human Science, 52, 219-225. (in Japanese) 　[pdf]
Nakao, M., Miyatani, M., Takezawa, T., Nakao, T., Yoshida, Y. (2001). Event-related potentials in a categorical judgment of arrows indicating distinct and indistinct directions. Hiroshima Psychological Research, 1, 11-23. (in Japanese) 　[pdf]
Miyatani, M., Nakao, T., Ohkawa, K., Nicholas, S. R. S., Takumi, K. (2001). An event-related potential study on memory search for color. Hiroshima Psychological Research, 1, 1-9. (in Japanese) 　[pdf]

International Conference Presentations

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Nakao, T. Osumi, T. Ohira, H. Kasuya, Y., Shinoda, J., Yamada, J., & Northoff G. Medial prefrontal cortex - dorsal anterior cingulate cortex connectivity during behavior selection without an objective correct answer. The 15th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP 2010), September 1 - 4, 2010, Budapest Marriott Hotel, Budapest, Hungary.[pdf (abst)] [pdf (poster)] (International Journal of Psychophysiology, 77(3), p323, 2010).

Osumi, T., Nakao, T., Kasuya, Y., Shinoda, J., Yamada, J., & Ohira H. A role of the anterior insula in altruistic punishment: An fMRI study using the ultimatum game and the dictator game. The 15th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP 2010), September 1 - 4, 2010, Budapest Marriott Hotel, Budapest, Hungary. (International Journal of Psychophysiology, 77(3), p324, 2010).

Iida, S., Ohira, H. Nakao, T. & Funahashi A. Automatic emotion regulation by cognitive task. The 15th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP 2010), September 1 - 4, 2010, Budapest Marriott Hotel, Budapest, Hungary. (International Journal of Psychophysiology, 77(3), p280, 2010).

Nakao, T., Osumi, T., Ohira, H., Kasuya, Y., Shinoda, J, & Yamada, J. Neural bases of behavior selection without an objective correct answer. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), October 21-24, 2009, Berliner Congress Center, Berlin, Germany (Psychophysiology, 46, supplement1, 2009, S41 Poster71).[pdf (abst)] [pdf (poster)]

Murakami, H., Nakao, T., Matsunaga, M., Kasuya, Y., Shinoda, J., Yamada, J., & Ohira, H. The structure of the Mindful brain. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), October 21-24, 2009, Berliner Congress Center, Berlin, Germany. (Psychophysiology, 46, supplement1, 2009, S41 Poster73).
Osumi, T., Nakao, T., Ohira, H., Kasuya, Y., Shinoda, J., & Yamada, J. Dual deficit in psychopathy: Neural correlates of psychopathic traits within social exchange. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), October 21-24, 2009, Berliner Congress Center, Berlin, Germany. (Psychophysiology, 46, supplement1, 2009, S153 Poster154).
Murakami H, Nakao T, Matsunaga M, & Ohira H. Gray matter volume in the right insula is associated with mindfulness tendency. The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society. September, 16-18, 2009 at Nagoya Congress Center.
Nakao, T., Takamura, M., Mitsumoto, M., Nashiwa, H., Tokunaga, S., & Miyatani, M. The amplitude of conflict-related negativity (CRN) reflects degree of conflict during occupational choice. the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), October 1-5, 2008 in Hilton Hotel, Austin, Texas, USA. (Psychophysiology, 45, supplement1, 2008, S105 Poster70) 　[pdf (abst)]　[pdf (poster)]
Nakao, T., Miyatani, M., Okamoto, A., Katayama, K., Mitsumoto, M., & Watanabe, Y. Activation of self-knowledge reduces conflict during occupational choice: An ERP study. Human Brain Mapping 14th Annual Meeting, June 15-19, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. (NeuroImage, 41, Supplement1, 2008, S131). 　[pdf (poster)]
Nakao, T., Miyatani, M., Nakao, M., Takezawa, T., Maruishi, M., Muranaka, H. & Dojo, H. Medial frontal activity during self-knowledge reference and self-monitoring. Human Brain Mapping 13th Annual Meeting, June 10-14, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. (NeuroImage, 36, Supplement1, 2007, S62) 　[pdf (poster)]
Nakao, M., Takezawa, T., Nakao, T., Shiraishi, M., Yoshimura, N., Nashiwa, H., & Miyatani, M.　The effects of working memory load on event-related brain potentials during lexical decision task. Second International Conference on Working Memory. Kyoto(Japan), August, 2004.
Nakao, T., & Miyatani M. When people aware their emotional state, they also think about own traits. Second International Conference on Working Memory. Kyoto(Japan), August, 2004. 　[pdf (poster)]
Ogata, A., Miyatani, M., Nakao, T., & Shimazu, A The relation between anxiety and self-referent processing: Does anxiety trigger self-referent processing? The 4th World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Kobe(Japan), July, 2004.
Nakao, T., Miyatani M., Maruishi, M., Muranaka, H., & Doujo, H. Self-reference process and MPFC activity: A fMRI study. 5th Tsukuba International Conference on Memory. Tsukuba(Japan), March, 2004

Research Funds

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JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad(630) ( 2011, April, 1st- 2013, March, 31th)
Excellent Young Researchers Overseas Visit Program (2010, January, 1st - 2010, October, 31st)
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (20･821) (2008, April, 1st -2011, March, 31th).
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (19700246) (2007, April, 1st -2009, March, 31th).