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Sato-Aiba Lab
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The lab explores computation in the brain through the mathematics of vision and the acquisition of skills.
AboutAbout the lab
Decoding the brain's computations with an engineer's eye.
The Sakaguchi-Sato-Aiba Lab views the human brain as an "information processing system" and aims to elucidate brain function by considering what computations take place inside it.
To investigate how vision works, Associate Professor Shunji Sato describes mathematically the behavior of neurons involved in visual information processing and simulates it on a computer.
Associate Professor Eriko Aiba studies the mechanisms by which skills are acquired, focusing in particular on musical instrument performance and investigating it with attention to the auditory periphery.
On the lab website, the Sakaguchi Lab, Sato Lab, and Aiba Lab are listed side by side on the same research introduction page.
Key terms
- Engineering approach
- A research approach that treats the brain as an information processing system like a computer and considers what computations take place inside it
- Simulation
- Expressing the workings of neurons in mathematical equations and running them on a computer to examine how they behave
- Auditory periphery
- The part closer to the ear that receives and processes sound signals
ResearchResearch themes
The brain takes in information from the eyes and ears, recognizes the situation, makes judgments, and turns them into action. The Sakaguchi-Sato-Aiba Lab regards the brain as an "information processing system" like a computer and aims to elucidate brain function through an "engineering approach" that considers what computations take place inside it.
*Illustrative imageMathematical description of how vision works
The lab describes mathematically the behavior of neurons involved in visual information processing and simulates their activity on a computer. It explores what computations the sensory system performs when things are recognized instantly.
*Illustrative imageHow skills are acquired
The lab studies the mechanisms of skill acquisition, the systems that enable skilled performance, and how motivation to acquire skills is sustained. In particular, it investigates musical instrument performance in detail, focusing on the mechanisms of the auditory periphery.
MembersFaculty
The members introduced on this site consist of faculty, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- Associate ProfessorShunji Sato
- Associate ProfessorEriko Aiba
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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: “Spatial vision and perspective” Sciencia58 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mathematical description of how vision works: “Eye iris” che (Please credit as "Petr Novák, Wikipedia" in case you use this outside Wikimedia projects.) / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
- How skills are acquired: “Diller practice keyboard” Tylwyth Eldar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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