Ryota Kanai

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Affiliation: Others

Degree: PhD(Utrecht University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201601006318166945
researchmap Member ID: 7000018601

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Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2015 - Present

CEO, Araya Inc.
Oct, 2012 - Mar, 2015

Reader, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex
Oct, 2007 - Sep, 2012

Research Associate, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
Oct, 2005 - Sep, 2007

Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology

Education

Sep, 2001 - Sep, 2005

Utrecht University
Apr, 1996 - Mar, 2000

Faculty of Science, Kyoto University

Awards

Feb, 2021

World OMOSIROI Award

Ryota Kanai
2020

第５回 JEITA ベンチャー賞, JEITA

株式会社アラヤ
2019

KDDI Mugen Lab Award, 1 st Prize, Tokyo, 2019, KDDI CORPORATION

Araya, Inc.
2018

Microsoft Innovation Award, 1st Prize, Algorithm for Neural Network requiring less computation on resources, Microsoft Co., Ltd.

Araya, Inc.
2018

EY Innovative Startup 2020, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC

Araya, Inc.
Apr, 2015

文部科学大臣表彰若手科学者賞, 文部科学省

金井良太
2007

Best PhD Dissertation Award, Netherlands Psychonomics Society NVP

Ryota Kanai
2005

Top Ten Finalists: Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest, Neural Correlate Society
2005

Della Martin Prize
2000

Huygens Scholarship

Papers

140

Effective Connectivity in a Duration Selective Cortico-Cerebellar Network

Foteini Protopapa, Shrikanth Kulashekhar, Masamichi J. Hayashi, Ryota Kanai, Domenica Bueti

Dec 20, 2022
The neuroanatomy of social trust predicts depression vulnerability

Alan S. R. Fermin, Toko Kiyonari, Yoshie Matsumoto, Haruto Takagishi, Yang Li, Ryota Kanai, Masamichi Sakagami, Rei Akaishi, Naho Ichikawa, Masahiro Takamura …

Scientific Reports, 12(1), Oct 6, 2022
Efficient search for informational cores in complex systems: Application to brain networks.

Jun Kitazono, Ryota Kanai, Masafumi Oizumi

Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society, 132 232-244, Aug 28, 2020
Temporal variability of brain networks predicts individual differences in bistable perception

Mao, Y, , Kanai, R, Ding, C, Bi, T, Qiu, J

Neuropsychologia, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Human activity recognition with deep reinforcement learning using the camera of a mobile robot

Kumrai , T, Korpela, J, Maekawa, T., Yu, Y, Kanai, R

Proceeding of IEEE, 2020 Peer-reviewed
The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

Grasby, K.L., Jaha nshad , N, Pai nter , J.N, Kanai, R, Thompson, P.M, Medland, S.E

Science, 10.1126/science.aay6690, 2020 Peer-reviewed
An Information Theoretic Approach to Reveal the Formation of Shared Representations

Akihiro Eguchi, Takato Horii, Takayuki Nagai, Ryota Kanai, Masafumi Oizumi

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 14 1-1, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Chronotopic maps in supplementary motor area

Protopapa F, Hayashi MJ, Kulashekhar S, van der, Zwaag W, Battistella G, Murray MM, Kanai R, Bueti D

PLoS Biology, 17(3) e3000026, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Artificial consciousness as a platform for artificial general intelligence

Kanai, R, Fujisawa, I, Tamai, S, Magata, A, Yasumoto , M

Japanese AI Society SIG - AGI, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Genetic Architecture of Subcortical Brain Structures in 38,854 Individuals Worldwide

Adam s , H.H.H., Satizabal , C.L, Hibar , D.P, White , C.C, Kanai, R, Ikram , M. A

Nature Genetics, 50 1624-1636, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Chronotopic maps in the human premotor cortex

Foteini Protopapa, Masamichi J, Shrikanth Kulashekhar, Wietske van der Zwaag, Giovanni Battistella, Micah M. Murray, Ryota Kanai, Domenica Bueti

PLoS Biology, 17(3), 2019 Peer-reviewed
Boredom-Driven Curious Learning by Homeo-Heterostatic Value Gradients

Yen Yu, Acer Y. C. Chang, Ryota Kanai

Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 12 88, 2019 Peer-reviewed
An information generation hypothesis of consciousness

Kanai, R, Chang, A, Yu, Y, Magrans de Abril, I, Biehl, M, Guttenberg, N

Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Planar cell polarity pathway and development of the human visual cortex

Jean Shin, Shaojie Ma, Edith Hofer, Yash Patel, Gennady V. Roshchupkin, André M. Sousa, Xueqiu Jian, Rebecca Gottesman, Thomas H. Mosley, Myriam Fornage …

Aug 31, 2018
Intrinsically-motivated reinforcement learning for control with continuous actions

Ildefons Magrans De Abril, Ryota Kanai

ICIIBMS 2017 - 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and Biomedical Sciences, 2018- 212-213, Feb 2, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Efficient Algorithms for Searching the Minimum Information Partition in Integrated Information Theory.

Jun Kitazono, Ryota Kanai, Masafumi Oizumi

Entropy, 20(3) 173-173, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Representations of time in human frontoparietal cortex

Hayashi MJ, van der Zwaag W, Bueti D, Kanai R

Communications Biology, 1(1) 233, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Decoding time in the human parietal cortex

Masamichi J Hayashi, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Domenica Bueti, Ryota Kanai

Communications Biology, 1(1) 233, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Being curious about the answers to questions: novelty search with learned attention

Nicholas Guttenberg, Martin Biehl, Ryota Kanai

Artificial Life Conference Proceedings ( ALIFE 2018), 30 518-525, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Curiosity-driven reinforcement learning with homeostatic regulation

Ildefons Magrans de Abril, Ryota Kanai

arXiv, NIPS 2017 Workshop, 2018 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

Extensive training with feedback reduces attentional demand in visual feature binding

Yoko Higuchi, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Ryota Kanai, Kazuhisa Shibata

Journal of Vision, 19(10) 185a, Sep, 2019
Increased BOLD Signals Elicited by High Gamma Auditory Stimulation of the Left Auditory Cortex in Acute State Schizophrenia (vol 12, pg 143, 2016)

Hironori Kuga, Toshiaki Onitsuka, Yoji Hirano, Itta Nakamura, Naoya Oribe, Hiroaki Mizuhara, Ryota Kanai, Shigenobu Kanba, Takefumi Ueno

EBIOMEDICINE, 16 312-312, Feb, 2017
Permutation-equivariant neural networks applied to dynamics prediction

Nicholas Guttenberg, Nathaniel Virgo, Olaf Witkowski, Hidetoshi Aoki, Ryota Kanai

Dec 14, 2016
Neural Coarse-Graining: Extracting slowly-varying latent degrees of freedom with neural networks

Nicholas Guttenberg, Martin Biehl, Ryota Kanai

Sep 1, 2016
向社会的行動の遺伝・神経基盤の解明：アルギニンバソプレシン受容体V1a遺伝子による検討

仁科国之, 高岸治人, アラン・ファーミン, 金井良太, 井上-村山美穂, 高橋英彦, 山岸俊男

日本社会心理学会第57回大会, 2016年9月17日～18日, 関西学院大学（西宮市）, 2016
オキシトシン受容体遺伝子と信頼行動の関連：VBMによる検討

高岸治人, 仁科国之, 金井良太, 井上-村山美穂, 山岸俊男

日本社会心理学会第56回大会，2015年10月31-11月1日、東京女子大学（東京都杉並区）, 2015
Heritability of subcortical brain measures: a perspective for future genome-wide association studies

Anouk den Braber, Marc M. Bohlken, Rachel Brouwer, Dennis van't Ent, Ryota Kanai, Rene S. Kahn, Eco de Geus, Hilleke Hulshoff Pol, Dorret Boomsma

BEHAVIOR GENETICS, 43(6) 514-515, Nov, 2013
TRANSFER OF COGNITIVE TRAINING ACROSS MAGNITUDE DIMENSIONS ACHIEVED WITH CONCURRENT BRAIN STIMULATION OF THE PARIETAL LOBE

Marinella Cappelletti, Erica Gessaroli, Rosalyn Hithersay, Micaela Mitolo, Daniele Didino, Ryota Kanai, Roi Cohen Kadosh, Vincent Walsh

JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 173-173, 2013
The origin of morality in the brain

Ryota Kanai

2012
How much can we tell about a person just by looking at the brain?

Ryota Kanai

NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, 68 E41-E41, 2010
Brain sciences on individual differences

Ryota Kanai

2010
Perceptual blindness and attentional blindness

Ryota Kanai, Chia-huei Tseng, Vincent Walsh

NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, 65 S16-S16, 2009
Social distance evaluation in human parietal cortex

Yoshinori Yamakawa, Ryota Kanai, Michikazu Matsumura, Eiichi Naito

NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, 61 S120-S120, 2008
The quest for consciousness: A neurobiological approach.

G Gillett

JOURNAL OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY, 17(1) 175-177, Mar, 2006
Visual motion expands perceived time

FAJ Verstraten, R Kanai, H Hogendoorn, CLE Paffen

PERCEPTION, 34 30-30, 2005
The phase of alpha wave correlates with the conscious perception of a masked target

R Kanai, MM Lansbergen, FAJ Verstraten

PERCEPTION, 34 142-143, 2005
Featural, but not spatial, attention modulates unconscious processing of visual stimuli

R Kanai, N Tsuchiya, FAJ Verstraten

PERCEPTION, 33 8-8, 2004
Similar contrast effects for motion and colour during binocular rivalry

SFT Pas, CLE Paffen, R Kanai, MJ van der Smagt, FAJ Verstraten

PERCEPTION, 32 79-79, 2003
Offset signals of visual object trigger perceptual fading

R Kanai, Y Kamitani, FAJ Verstraten

PERCEPTION, 32 165-165, 2003
Coexistence of colour filling-in and filling-out in segregated surfaces

S Shimojo, DA Wu, R Kanai

PERCEPTION, 32 155-155, 2003

Research Projects

Integrated analysis for heterogeneous data from multiple sources

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2017

KAWANABE Motoaki, KANAI Ryota

Industrial Property Rights

特開2015-084970 個人特性予測システム、個人特性予測方法及びプログラム

狩野芳伸, 金井良太
特許第5641629号個人特性予測システム、個人特性予測方法及びプログラム

狩野芳伸, 金井良太

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