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Profile Information

Affiliation: Postdoctoral fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Degree: PhD(Mar, 2023, The University of Tokyo)
MSc(Oct, 2018, University of Oxford)

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6306-6600
J-GLOBAL ID: 202001010085617356
researchmap Member ID: R000008321

Research Interests

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神経科学, 計算論的精神医学, 強化学習, ドーパミン, デジタル治療

Research Areas

3

Research History

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Jun, 2023 - Present

Postdoctoral fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Apr, 2021 - May, 2023

RIKEN
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2021

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Education

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Mar, 2023

PhD in Life Science
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2021

Multi-Disciplinary Sciences Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Sep, 2017 - Sep, 2018

MSc in Neuroscience, University of Oxford
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2017

Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2015

Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo

Committee Memberships

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Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2021

産業構造審議会産業技術分科会研究開発・イノベーション小委員会若手ワーキンググループ委員

Awards

2

Papers

12

Revisiting the role of computational neuroimaging in the era of integrative neuroscience

Alisa M. Loosen, Ayaka Kato, Xiaosi Gu

Neuropsychopharmacology, Sep 6, 2024 InvitedLead author
Dopaminergic neurons dynamically update sensory values during olfactory maneuver

Ayaka Kato, Kazumi Ohta, Kazuo Okanoya, Hokto Kazama

Cell Reports, 113122-113122, Sep, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead author
Computational models of behavioral addictions: state of the art and future directions

Ayaka Kato, Kanji Shimomura, Dimitri Ognibene, Muhammad A. Parvaz, Laura A. Berner, Kenji Morita, Vincenzo G. Fiore

Addictive Behaviors, 107595-107595, Dec, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Computational Psychiatry of Addiction Using Reinforcement Learning Model

Ayaka Kato, Kanji Shimomura, Kenji Morita

The Brain & Neural Networks, 29(2) 52-64, Jun 5, 2022
Dopamine ramps for accurate value learning under uncertainty

Kenji Morita, Ayaka Kato

Trends in Neurosciences, 45(4) 254-256, Apr, 2022
Rigid reduced successor representation as a potential mechanism for addiction

Kanji Shimomura, Ayaka Kato, Kenji Morita

European Journal of Neuroscience, 53(11) 3768-3790, May 10, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
Digital therapeutics for essential hypertension using a smartphone application: A randomized, open‐label, multicenter pilot study

Kazuomi Kario, Akihiro Nomura, Ayaka Kato, Noriko Harada, Tomoyuki Tanigawa, Ryuhei So, Shin Suzuki, Eisuke Hida, Kohta Satake

The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 23(5) 923-934, Jan, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Computational Psychiatry Research Map (CPSYMAP): A New Database for Visualizing Research Papers

Ayaka Kato, Yoshihiko Kunisato, Kentaro Katahira, Tsukasa Okimura, Yuichi Yamashita

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, Dec 4, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author
Efficacy of the Ascure Smoking Cessation Program: Retrospective Study

Ayaka Kato, Tomoyuki Tanigawa, Kohta Satake, Akihiro Nomura

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 8(5) e17270-e17270, May 14, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author
A Neural Circuit Mechanism for the Involvements of Dopamine in Effort-Related Choices: Decay of Learned Values, Secondary Effects of Depletion, and Calculation of Temporal Difference Error

Kenji Morita, Ayaka Kato

eneuro, 5(1) ENEURO.0021-18.2018, Jan, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Forgetting in Reinforcement Learning Links Sustained Dopamine Signals to Motivation

Ayaka Kato, Kenji Morita

PLOS Computational Biology, 12(10) e1005145-e1005145, Oct 13, 2016 Peer-reviewedLead author
Striatal dopamine ramping may indicate flexible reinforcement learning with forgetting in the cortico-basal ganglia circuits

Kenji Morita, Ayaka Kato

Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 8 36-36, Apr 9, 2014 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

1

BRAIN and NERVE 2020年11月号 (増大号) ( Vol.72 No.11) 増大特集脳の発振現象−基礎から臨床へ

(Role: Contributor)

Nov, 2020

Works

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Computational Psychiatry Research Map (CPSYMAP)

Ayaka Kato, Yuichi Yamashita

Apr, 2020 Web Service

Research Projects

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The neural mechanism of odor representation in dopaminergic neurons depending on internal state

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2021