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Brain Information Measurement and Control Lab (Amano-Nakayama Lab)
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The lab measures and manipulates brain activity to uncover how perception works.
AboutAbout the lab
Manipulating brain activity to understand how perception works
The Brain Information Measurement and Control Lab studies human visual perception and the brain mechanisms that integrate information from multiple senses.
Using devices such as MRI and MEG, the lab measures brain activity from outside the head.
The lab also focuses on developing methods to manipulate brain activity using TMS, tCS, and neurofeedback.
The lab aims to identify the brain activity that actually gives rise to perception and behavior.
Key terms
- MEG
- A method that measures, from outside the head, the extremely weak magnetic fields produced when neurons in the brain are active. Also known as magnetoencephalography.
- TMS
- A method that applies a magnetic field with a coil from outside the head to temporarily alter the activity of part of the brain.
- Neurofeedback
- A method in which a person's own measured brain activity is fed back to them so that they can practice changing that activity.
- Alpha waves
- An electrical rhythm in the brain that repeats about 10 times per second. Its strength changes depending on attention.
NewsLab news
Paper exploring metamer space based on human perception published in Journal of Vision
Paper investigating semantic representations in high-level visual cortex published in Imaging Neuroscience
Associate Professor Takagi has joined the lab (cross-appointment with Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Professor Amano supervised the translation of "Introduction to MEG and EEG", published by Asakura Publishing
A paper from the lab received the FY2025 Outstanding Paper Award from the Japanese Society for Physiological Psychology and Psychophysiology
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the brain mechanisms underlying human visual perception and the integration of information across multiple senses. Using methods that manipulate brain activity as well as measure it, the lab aims to clarify the brain activity necessary for producing perception and behavior.
*Illustrative imageAre Alpha Waves the Brain's Clock?
Using an illusion in which visual jitter is seen at the same frequency as alpha waves, the lab tests the hypothesis that alpha waves act as a clock in the brain for visual information processing.
*Illustrative imageExploring Perception with Neurofeedback
Rather than only looking at the correlation between brain activity and perception, the lab examines how perception changes when brain activity is altered. Using the Decoded Neurofeedback method, it aims to identify the brain activity that is necessary and sufficient to produce visual perception.
*Illustrative imageTiming Alignment Between Senses
To combine visual, auditory, and tactile information into one, the temporal coincidence of inputs serves as a cue. The lab investigates how temporal information is extracted from each sense and then compared and integrated, using a combination of psychophysical experiments, magnetoencephalography (MEG), and fMRI.
*Illustrative imageThe Motion Extrapolation Illusion and Brain Rhythms
The lab studies an illusion in which, over a flickering background, a moving object that has disappeared appears to continue along its trajectory a little further. Because the amount of this extrapolation is related to the phase of the theta-band rhythm in EEG, the lab proposes that position representations in the brain may be updated at this rhythm.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Brain Information Measurement and Control Lab consist of faculty, JSPS International Fellows, secretaries, academic specialist staff, doctoral and master's students, and collaborators.As of 2026
- ProfessorKaoru AmanoPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorTomoya NakaiPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorYu Takagi
- Project LecturerRyohei NakayamaPublications ↗
- Assistant Professor宇野 究人
- Project Assistant ProfessorYuHsuan Tseng
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Double cone coil” Baburov / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Are Alpha Waves the Brain's Clock?: “Peripheral drift” Paulnasca (talk) / Public domain (cropped)
- Exploring Perception with Neurofeedback: “Brain-computer interface experiment” Laurens R. Krol / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Timing Alignment Between Senses: “Lightning NOAA” C. Clark / Public domain (cropped)
- The Motion Extrapolation Illusion and Brain Rhythms: “Anomalous motion illusion1” Paulnasca at English Wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
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