Kokoro Research Center
Wataru Sato is an Associate Professor at Kokoro Research Center at Kyoto University. He graduated from the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, 2002. After 4 years of a Researcher at the Department of Human and Environmental Studies and Department of Psychology of Kyoto University, he became an Associate Professor at the Primate Research Institute, Hakubi Center, and Graduate School of Medicine of Kyoto University.
His work focuses on exploring the psychological and neural mechanisms of emotion and social interaction. He published more than 50 articles as the first author in refereed journals. Other honors: Japanese Psychological Association Awards for International Contributions to Psychology, 2011.
Facial feedback affects valence judgments of dynamic and static emotional expressions.
Frontiers in psychology , 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25852608
Seeing happy emotion in fearful and angry faces: qualitative analysis of facial expression recognition in a bilateral amygdala-damaged patient.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior Dec, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12507042
Enhanced neural activity in response to dynamic facial expressions of emotion: an fMRI study.
Brain research. Cognitive brain research Jun, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15130592
The amygdala processes the emotional significance of facial expressions: an fMRI investigation using the interaction between expression and face direction.
NeuroImage Jun, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15193632
Emotion recognition from facial expressions in a temporal lobe epileptic patient with ictal fear.
Neuropsychologia , 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15707618
Right hemispheric dominance in gaze-triggered reflexive shift of attention in humans.
Brain and cognition Nov, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16730869
Spontaneous facial mimicry in response to dynamic facial expressions.
Cognition Jul, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 16780824
Right hemispheric dominance in processing of unconscious negative emotion.
Brain and cognition Dec, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16899333
Attentional shift by gaze is triggered without awareness.
Experimental brain research Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17624520
Dynamic facial expressions of emotion induce representational momentum.
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience Mar, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18405043
Enhanced facial EMG activity in response to dynamic facial expressions.
International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology Oct, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18598725
Involvement of medial temporal structures in reflexive attentional shift by gaze.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Mar, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19015098
Time course of superior temporal sulcus activity in response to eye gaze: a combined fMRI and MEG study.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Sep, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19015114
Commonalities in the neural mechanisms underlying automatic attentional shifts by gaze, gestures, and symbols.
NeuroImage Apr, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19167506
Brief report: Representational momentum for dynamic facial expressions in pervasive developmental disorder.
Journal of autism and developmental disorders Mar, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 19763805
Misrecognition of facial expressions in delinquents.
Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health Sep, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19765274
Dynamic fearful gaze does not enhance attention orienting in individuals with Asperger's disorder.
Brain and cognition Dec, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19781841
Amygdala activity in response to forward versus backward dynamic facial expressions.
Brain research Feb, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20025856
Amygdala integrates emotional expression and gaze direction in response to dynamic facial expressions.
NeuroImage May, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20096793
Rapid amygdala gamma oscillations in response to fearful facial expressions.
Neuropsychologia Mar, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21182851
The inversion effect for neutral and emotional facial expressions on amygdala activity.
Brain research Mar, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21215733
The specific impairment of fearful expression recognition and its atypical development in pervasive developmental disorder.
Social neuroscience , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21919566
Temporal profile of amygdala γ oscillations in response to faces.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience Jun, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 21981674
Rapid amygdala gamma oscillations in response to eye gaze.
PloS one , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22140541
Right hemispheric dominance and interhemispheric cooperation in gaze-triggered reflexive shift of attention.
Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences Mar, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22300340
Impaired social brain network for processing dynamic facial expressions in autism spectrum disorders.
BMC neuroscience Aug, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22889284
Relationships among facial mimicry, emotional experience, and emotion recognition.
PloS one , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23536774
Rapid and multiple-stage activation of the human amygdala for processing facial signals.
Communicative & integrative biology Jul, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23986807
Electrophysiological correlates of the efficient detection of emotional facial expressions.
Brain research Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24594020
Sex differences in the rapid detection of emotional facial expressions.
PloS one , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24728084
Rapid, high-frequency, and theta-coupled gamma oscillations in the inferior occipital gyrus during face processing.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior Nov, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24745564
Recognition memory for faces and scenes.
The Journal of general psychology Jan-Mar, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24837342
Commonalities and differences in the spatiotemporal neural dynamics associated with automatic attentional shifts induced by gaze and arrows.
Neuroscience research Oct, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25064015
Enhanced subliminal emotional responses to dynamic facial expressions.
Frontiers in psychology , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25250001
Impaired overt facial mimicry in response to dynamic facial expressions in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders.
Journal of autism and developmental disorders May, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25374131
Increased putamen volume in adults with autism spectrum disorder.
Frontiers in human neuroscience , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25505401
Exaggerated perception of facial expressions is increased in individuals with schizotypal traits.
Scientific reports Jul, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26135081
Inhibition of emotion-related autonomic arousal by skin pressure.
SpringerPlus , 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26140258
Spatiotemporal neural network dynamics for the processing of dynamic facial expressions.
Scientific reports Jul, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26206708
Common impairments of emotional facial expression recognition in schizophrenia across French and Japanese cultures.
Frontiers in psychology , 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26257678
Neural mechanisms underlying conscious and unconscious attentional shifts triggered by eye gaze.
NeuroImage Jan, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26343316
Emotional attention capture by facial expressions.
Scientific reports Sep, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26365083
The structural neural substrate of subjective happiness.
Scientific reports Nov, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26586449
Putamen volume correlates with obsessive compulsive characteristics in healthy population.
Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging Mar, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26849956
Direction of Amygdala-Neocortex Interaction During Dynamic Facial Expression Processing.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) Mar, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 26908633
The association between perceived social support and amygdala structure.
Neuropsychologia 05, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27039164
Neuroticism Delays Detection of Facial Expressions.
PloS one , 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27073904
Structural Neural Substrates of Reading the Mind in the Eyes.
Frontiers in human neuroscience , 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27148008
Scientists' personality, values, and well-being.
SpringerPlus , 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27247908
Unconscious Affective Responses to Food.
PloS one , 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27501443
Gamma Oscillations in the Temporal Pole in Response to Eyes.
PloS one , 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27571204
Neural substrates of the ability to recognize facial expressions: a voxel-based morphometry study.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 03, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 27672176
Rapid gamma oscillations in the inferior occipital gyrus in response to eyes.
Scientific reports 11, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27805017
Time course of gamma-band oscillation associated with face processing in the inferior occipital gyrus and fusiform gyrus: A combined fMRI and MEG study.
Human brain mapping 04, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28029717
Bidirectional electric communication between the inferior occipital gyrus and the amygdala during face processing.
Human brain mapping 09, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28573679
Structural Correlates of Reading the Mind in the Eyes in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Frontiers in human neuroscience , 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28747876
Putamen Volume is Negatively Correlated with the Ability to Recognize Fearful Facial Expressions.
Brain topography Nov, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28748407
Reduced Gray Matter Volume in the Social Brain Network in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Frontiers in human neuroscience , 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28824399
Gray matter volumes of early sensory regions are associated with individual differences in sensory processing.
Human brain mapping 12, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28940867
Impaired detection of happy facial expressions in autism.
Scientific reports Oct, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29042592
Homeostatic modulation on unconscious hedonic responses to food.
BMC research notes Oct, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29073920
Spatiotemporal commonalities of fronto-parietal activation in attentional orienting triggered by supraliminal and subliminal gaze cues: An event-related potential study.
Biological psychology Jul, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29733867
Wataru Sato*,1,
Takanori Kochiyama*,2,
Shota Uono3,
Naotaka Usui4,
Akihiko Kondo5,
Kazumi Matsuda5,
Keiko Usui6,
Motomi Toichi7,
Yushi Inoue5
1Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University,
2Brain Activity Imaging Center, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International,
3Department of Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry, Habilitation and Rehabilitation, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University,
4, National Epilepsy Center,
5, Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders,
6Department of System Neuroscience, Sapporo Medical University,
7Faculty of Human Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University