SATO Wataru Lab
Recent Research
Mentalistic attention orienting triggered by android eyes
Weak subjective–facial coherence as a possible emotional coping in older adults
Sensing emotional valence and arousal dynamics through automated facial action unit analysis
How an android expresses gnow loadingch: Examining the properties of thinking faces
Advancements in sensors and analyses for emotion sensing
Computational analysis of value learning and value-driven detection of neutral faces by young and older adults
Machine learning-based interpretable modeling for subjective emotional dynamics sensing using facial EMG
Impairment of unconscious emotional processing after unilateral medial temporal structure resection
Delivery of pleasant stroke touch via robot in older adults
Cross-cultural differences in self-reported and behavioural emotional self-awareness between Japan and the UK
Development of the RIKEN database for dynamic facial expressions with multiple angles
Asynchrony enhances uncanniness in human, android, and virtual dynamic facial expressions
Influence of stimulus manipulation on conscious awareness of emotional facial expressions in the match-to-sample paradigm
The Human Affectome
Electromyographic validation of spontaneous facial mimicry detection using automated facial action coding
Sex differences in the rapid detection of neutral faces with emotional value
Autistic traits modulate the rapid detection of punishment-associated neutral faces
Differences in configural processing for human versus android dynamic facial expressions
An investigation of the modulatory effects of empathic and autistic traits on emotional and facial motor responses during live social interactions
The inversion effect on the cubic humanness-uncanniness relation in humanlike agents
Behavioral and neural underpinnings of empathic characteristics in a Humanitude-care expert
Altered emotional mind-body coherence in older adults
Crosstalk in facial EMG and its reduction using ICA
The widespread action observation/execution matching system for facial expression processing
Pleasant stroke touch on human back by a human and a robot
Subjective-physiological coherence during food consumption in older adults
Enhanced mirror neuron network activity and effective connectivity during live interaction among female subjects
Exploration of emotion dynamics sensing using trapezius EMG and fingertip temperature
How are emotional facial expressions detected rapidly and accurately? A diffusion model analysis
Computational process of sharing emotion: An authentic information perspective
Robot touch with speech boosts positive emotions
Spatio-temporal properties of amused, embarrassed and pained smiles
Rapid detection of neutral faces associated with emotional value among older adults
An android for emotional interaction: Spatiotemporal validation of its facial expressions
The structural neural correlates of atypical facial expression recognition in autism spectrum disorder
Rapid detection of neutral faces associated with emotional value
Brow and masticatory muscle activity senses subjective hedonic experiences during food consumption
Viewpoint robustness of automated facial action unit detection systems
Colorfs indispensable role in the rapid detection of food
Schizotypy is associated with difficulties detecting emotional facial expressions
Impairment of emotional expression detection after unilateral medial temporal structure resection
Cross-cultural differences and psychometric properties of the Japanese Actions and Feelings Questionnaire (J-AFQ)
Assessing automated facial action unit detection systems for analyzing cross-domain facial expression
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries
Vocal synchrony of robots boosts positive affective empathy
Emotional valence sensing using a wearable facial EMG device
Facial EMG activity is associated with hedonic experiences but not nutritional values while viewing food images
Positive emotion amplification by representing excitement scene with TV chat agents
Physiological correlates of subjective emotional valence and arousal dynamics while viewing films
Cultural differences in food detection
Enhanced emotional and motor responses to live vs. videotaped dynamic facial expressions
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying social atypicalities in autism: Weak amygdalafs emotional modulation hypothesis
Association between dieting failure and unconscious hedonic responses to food
Image database of Japanese food samples with nutrition information
Facial EMG correlates of subjective hedonic responses during food consumption
Older adults detect happy facial expressions less rapidly
A sensorimotor control framework for understanding emotional communication and regulation
Amygdala activity related to perceived social support
Editorial: Dynamic emotional communication
Cultural moderation of unconscious hedonic responses to food
Atypical amygdala-neocortex interaction during dynamic facial expression processing in autism spectrum disorder
Resting-state neural activity and connectivity associated with subjective happiness
Hunger promotes the detection of high-fat food
The atypical social brain network in autism: Advances in structural and functional MRI studies
Widespread and lateralized social brain activity for processing dynamic facial expressions
Amygdala activation during unconscious visual processing of food
Corticostriatal-limbic correlates of sub-clinical obsessive-compulsive traits
Facial expressions of basic emotions in Japanese laypeople
Naturalistic emotion decoding from facial action sets
Analyzing neural activity and connectivity using intracranial EEG data with the SPM software
Spatiotemporal commonalities of fronto-parietal activation in attentional orienting triggered by supraliminal and subliminal gaze cues: An event-related potential study
Homeostatic modulation on unconscious hedonic responses to food
Gray matter volumes of early sensory regions are associated with individual differences in sensory processing
Impaired detection of happy facial expressions in autism
Reduced gray matter volume in the social brain network in adults with autism spectrum disorder
Putamen volume is negatively correlated with the ability to recognize fearful facial expressions
Structural correlates of reading the mind in the eyes in autism spectrum disorder
Neural mechanisms underlying conscious and unconscious gaze-triggered attentional orienting in autism spectrum disorder
Fat content modulates rapid detection of food: A visual search study using fast food and Japanese diet
Bidirectional electric communication between the inferior occipital gyrus and the amygdala during face processing
Time course of gamma-band oscillation associated with face processing in the inferior occipital gyrus and fusiform gyrus: A combined fMRI and MEG study
Neural substrates of the ability to recognize facial expressions: A voxel-based morphometry study
Rapid gamma oscillations in the inferior occipital gyrus in response to eyes
Gamma oscillations in the temporal pole in response to eyes
Unconscious affective responses to food
Scientists' personality, values, and well-being
Neuroticism delays detection of facial expressions
The association between perceived social support and amygdala structure
Structural neural substrates of reading the mind in the eyes
Direction of amygdala–neocortex interaction during dynamic facial expression processing
Putamen volume correlates with obsessive compulsive characteristics in healthy population
The structural neural substrate of subjective happiness
Neural mechanisms underlying conscious and unconscious attentional shifts triggered by eye gaze
Emotional attention capture by facial expressions
Spatiotemporal neural network dynamics for the processing of dynamic facial expressions
Common impairments of emotional facial expression recognition in schizophrenia across French and Japanese cultures
Exaggerated perception of facial expressions is increased in individuals with schizotypal traits
Inhibition of emotion-related autonomic arousal by skin pressure
Facial feedback affects valence judgments of dynamic and static emotional expressions
Increased putamen volume in adults with autism spectrum disorder
Impaired overt facial mimicry in response to dynamic facial expressions in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders
Enhanced subliminal emotional responses to dynamic facial expressions
Commonalities and differences in the spatiotemporal neural dynamics associated with automatic attentional shifts induced by gaze and arrows
Reduced representational momentum for subtle dynamic facial expressions in individuals with autism spectrum disorders
Sex differences in the rapid detection of emotional facial expressions
Rapid, high-frequency, and theta-coupled gamma oscillations in the inferior occipital gyrus during face processing
Electrophysiological correlates of the efficient detection of emotional facial expressions
Atypical recognition of dynamic changes in facial expressions in autism spectrum disorders
Rapid and multiple-stage activation of the human amygdala for processing facial signals
Relationships among facial mimicry, emotional experience, and emotion recognition
Common and unique impairments in facial-expression recognition in pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified and Asperger¡Çs disorder
Impaired social brain network for processing dynamic facial expressions in autism spectrum disorders
Recognition memory for faces and scenes
Subcategories of positive emotion
Rapid amygdala gamma oscillations in response to eye gaze
Right hemispheric dominance and interhemispheric cooperation in reflexive attentional shift by gaze
Temporal profile of amygdala gamma oscillations in response to faces
The specific impairment of fearful expression recognition and its atypical development in pervasive developmental disorder
The inversion effect for neutral and emotional facial expressions on amygdala activity
Rapid amygdala gamma oscillations in response to fearful facial expressions
Facial expression arousal level modulates facial mimicry
Impairment of unconscious, but not conscious, gaze-triggered attention orienting in Asperger's disorder
Amygdala integrates emotional expression and gaze direction in response to dynamic facial expressions
Amygdala activity in response to forward versus backward dynamic facial expressions
Automatic attentional shifts by gaze, gestures, and symbols
Representational momentum for dynamic facial expressions in pervasive developmental disorder
Dynamic fearful gaze does not enhance attention orienting in individuals with Asperger's disorder
Misrecognition of facial expressions in delinquents
Dynamic fearful expressions enhance gaze-triggered attention orienting regardless of anxiety level
Facilitation of gaze-triggered attention orienting by a fearful expression and its relationship to anxiety
Detection of emotional facial expressions and anti-expressions
Commonalities in the neural mechanisms underlying automatic attentional shifts by gaze, gestures, and symbols
Cross-cultural reading the mind in the eyes: An fMRI investigation
Anti-expressions: Artificial control stimuli for emotional facial expressions regarding visual properties
Enhanced facial EMG activity in response to dynamic facial expressions
The information processing role of the amygdale in emotion
Time course of superior temporal sulcus activity in response to eye gaze: A combined fMRI and MEG study
Attentional shift by gaze is triggered without awareness
Involvement of medial temporal structures in reflexive attentional shift by gaze
Dynamic facial expressions of emotion induce representational momentum
Emotion elicitation effect of films in a Japanese sample
Spontaneous facial mimicry in response to dynamic facial expressions
Right hemispheric dominance in processing of unconscious negative emotion
Enhanced experience of emotional arousal in response to dynamic facial expressions
Right hemispheric dominance in gaze-triggered reflexive shift of attention in humans
Emotion recognition from facial expressions in a temporal lobe epileptic patient with ictal fear
Characteristics of the involvement of the amygdala in the recognition of emotional expressions: a review of neuropsychological research
The amygdala processes the emotional significance of facial expressions: an fMRI investigation using the interaction between expression and face direction
Enhanced neural activity in response to dynamic facial expressions of emotion: an fMRI study
The dynamic aspects of emotional facial expressions
Eye gaze triggers visuospatial attentional shift in individuals with autism
Seeing happy emotion in fearful and angry faces: Qualitative analysis of the facial expression recognition in a bilateral amygdala damaged patient
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