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Brain Physiology Lab
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The lab explores perception, movement, and cognition through brain science that people can experience.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how the brain works through brain science you can experience
The Brain Physiology Lab studies a wide range of brain functions, including perception, movement, cognition, and communication.
Under the motto of "brain science that you can experience," the lab works on topics such as the mechanism by which the world does not appear to move even when the eyes move, the sense of mental time, and the mechanisms of motor learning.
In addition to behavioral experiments and brain activity measurements in humans, the lab also examines brain activity in monkeys.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Dynamic Brain Network Lab."
Key terms
- Background coordinate system
- A coordinate system centered on the background, which the brain is thought to construct from the two retinal images. This is a hypothesis proposed by this lab.
- Temporal order
- The order in which two events occurred, that is, which one happened first.
- Motor learning
- Learning in which movements become more accurate based on movement errors.
NewsLab news
Research results of Associate Professor Watanabe published in Science Advances
Paper by Visiting Associate Professor Inoue and Prof. Kitazawa published in Cerebellum
Paper by researchers published in Neuropsychologia
Paper by a PhD student and Prof. Kitazawa and colleagues published in Neural Networks
Paper by Visiting Associate Professor Inoue and Prof. Kitazawa published in Cell Reports
ResearchResearch themes
Under the motto of "brain science that you can experience," the lab works on a wide range of research, including perception, movement, cognition, and communication. For each theme, it takes a four-step approach, investigating from human behavioral experiments and brain activity measurements to experiments on monkey brains.
*Illustrative imageWhy the World Does Not Appear to Move When the Eyes Move
Humans move their eyes rapidly about three times per second, yet the world in the mind does not move. The lab proposed the "background coordinate system hypothesis," which holds that the brain constructs a coordinate system centered on the background from the two retinal images, and is testing it through human behavioral experiments, brain activity measurements, and experiments in monkeys.
*Illustrative imageThe Neuroscience of Mental Time
Within "mental time," in which the present, past, and future are perceived, the lab studies how the temporal order of two events is subjectively constructed in the brain. It found that when the left and right hands are crossed, the perceived order reverses for time differences of about 200 milliseconds.
*Illustrative imageMechanisms of Smooth and Accurate Motor Learning
In reaching movements, optimal control is performed that minimizes changes in force and errors at the endpoint. The lab investigates how the networks of the cerebrum and cerebellum that support this motor control work, through motor learning experiments in humans and studies of the monkey brain.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Brain Physiology Lab consist of faculty, visiting associate professors, visiting faculty members, and visiting researchers, PhD students, undergraduate students, technicians, and secretaries.As of 2026
- ProfessorShigeru Kitazawa
- Associate ProfessorKei Watanabe
- Assistant ProfessorMasanori Saruwatari
- Assistant ProfessorMotoaki Uchimura
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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: “Eye orbit anatomy anterior2” Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Why the World Does Not Appear to Move When the Eyes Move: “Eye iris” che (Please credit as "Petr Novák, Wikipedia" in case you use this outside Wikimedia projects.) / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
- The Neuroscience of Mental Time: “Pendulum clock by Jacob Kock, antique furniture photography, IMG 0931 edit” Christoph Braun / CC0 (cropped)
- Mechanisms of Smooth and Accurate Motor Learning: “Brain hirez” Shannan Muskopf / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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