National Institute for Physiological Sciences Takemura Lab Sensory & Cognitive Brain Mapping
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Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Luo, J., Ashida, H., Yokoi, I. & Takemura, H. (2026) Anisotropic speed-discrimination sensitivity for expanding and contracting optic flow. Journal of Vision, in press.

  2. Saito, M., Rapan, L., Niu, M., Zhao, L., Tsujimura, S., Takemura, H.* & Palomero-Gallagher, N.* (2026) Receptor architecture of the macaque lateral geniculate nucleus. Brain Structure and Function, 231, 67. (*: equal senior contribution)

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  3. Miyata, T., Fukunaga, M., Luo, J., Yokoi, I., Yamamoto, T., Yoshioka, A., Yang, J., Morita, T. & Takemura, H. (2026) Characteristics of cross-modal negative BOLD responses in the human sensory subcortex and cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 135, 747-759.

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  4. Taguma, D., Ogawa, S. & Takemura, H. (2025) Evaluating the impact of denoising diffusion MRI data on tractometry metrics of optic tract abnormalities in glaucoma. Scientific Reports, 15, 25812.

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  5. Nakayama, R., Uetsuki, M., Maruya, K. & Takemura, H. (2024) Evaluating correlations between reading ability and psychophysical measurements of dynamic visual information processing in Japanese adults. Scientific Reports, 14, 29546.

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  6. Luo, J., Yokoi, I., Dumoulin, S.O. & Takemura, H. (2024) Bistable perception of symbolic numbers. Journal of Vision, 24, 12.

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  7. Takemura, H., Kaneko, T., Sherwood, C.C., Johnson, G.A., Axer, M., Hecht, E.E., Ye, F.Q. & Leopold, D.A. (2024) A prominent vertical occipital white matter fasciculus unique to primate brains. Current Biology, 34, 3632-3643.

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  8. Takemura, H., Kruper, J.A., Miyata, T. & Rokem, A. (2024) Tractometry of human visual white matter pathways in health and disease. Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences, 23, 316-340.

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  9. Uesaki, M., Furlan, M., Smith, A.T. & Takemura, H. (2024) White matter tracts adjacent to the human cingulate sulcus visual area (CSv). PLoS ONE, 19, e0300575.

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  10. Takemura, H., Liu, W., Kuribayashi, H., Miyata, T. & Kida, I. (2023) Evaluation of simultaneous multi-slice readout-segmented diffusion-weighted MRI acquisition in human brain optic nerve measurements. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 102, 103-114.

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  11. Morita, T., Takemura, H. & Naito, E. (2023) Functional and Structural Properties of Interhemispheric Interaction between Bilateral Precentral Hand Motor Regions in a Top Wheelchair Racing Paralympian. Brain Sciences, 13, 715.

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  12. Oishi, H., Takemura, H. & Amano, K. (2023) Macromolecular tissue volume mapping of lateral geniculate nucleus subdivisions in living human brains. NeuroImage, 265, 119777.

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  13. Miyata, T., Benson, N.C., Winawer, J. & Takemura, H. (2022) Structural covariance and heritability of the optic tract and primary visual cortex in living human brains. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42, 6761-6769.

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  14. Morita, T., Hirose, S., Kimura, N., Takemura, H., Asada, M. & Naito, E. (2022) Hyper-adaptation in the Human Brain: Functional and structural changes in the foot section of the primary motor cortex in a top wheelchair racing Paralympian. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16, 780652.

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  15. Ogawa, S.*, Takemura, H.*, Horiguchi, H., Miyazaki, A., Matsumoto, K., Masuda, Y., Yoshikawa, K. & Nakano, T. (2022) Multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging of visual white matter pathways in patients with glaucoma. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 63, 29. (*: equal contribution)

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  16. Amemiya, K., Naito, E. & Takemura, H. (2021) Age dependency and lateralization in the three branches of the human superior longitudinal fasciculus. Cortex, 139, 116-133.

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  17. Masuda, Y., Takemura, H., Terao, M., Miyazaki, A., Ogawa, S., Horiguchi, H., Nakadomari, S., Matsumoto, K., Nakano, T., Wandell, B.A. & Amano, K. (2021) V1 projection zone signals in human macular degeneration depend on task despite absence of visual stimulus. Current Biology, 31(2), 406-412.

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  18. Takemura, H.*, Palomero-Gallagher, N.*, Axer, M., Gräßel, D., Jorgensen, M.J., Woods, R. & Zilles, K.* (2020) Anatomy of nerve fiber bundles at micrometer-resolution in the vervet monkey visual system. eLife, 9, e55444. (*: equal contributions)

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  19. Takemura, H., Yuasa, K. & Amano, K. (2020) Predicting neural response latency of the human early visual cortex from MRI-based tissue measurements of the optic radiation. eNeuro, 7(4), ENEURO.0545-19.2020. 1-18.

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  20. Kaneko, T.*, Takemura, H.*, Pestilli, F., Silva, A.C., Ye, F.Q. & Leopold, D.A. (2020) Spatial organization of occipital white matter tracts in the common marmoset. Brain Structure and Function, 225(4), 1313-1326. (*: equal contributions)

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  21. Minami, S., Oishi, H., Takemura, H. & Amano, K. (2020) Inter-individual differences in occipital alpha oscillations correlate with white matter tissue properties of the optic radiation. eNeuro, 7(2), ENEURO.0224-19.2020 1-11.

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  22. Bullock, D., Takemura, H., Caiafa, C.F., Kitchell, L., McPherson, B., Caron, B. & Pestilli, F. (2019) Associative white matter connecting the dorsal and ventral posterior human cortex. Brain Structure and Function, 224(8), 2631-2660.

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  23. Takemura, H.*, Ogawa, S.*, Mezer, A.A., Horiguchi, H., Miyazaki, A., Matsumoto, K., Shikishima, K., Nakano, T. & Masuda, Y. (2019) Diffusivity and quantitative T1 profile of human visual white matter tracts after retinal ganglion cell damage. NeuroImage: Clinical, 23, 101826. (*: equal contributions)

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  24. Takemura, H., Pestilli, F. & Weiner, K.S. (2019) Comparative neuroanatomy: integrating classic and modern methods to understand association fibers connecting dorsal and ventral visual cortex. Neuroscience Research, 146, 1-12.

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  25. Oishi, H.*, Takemura, H.*, Aoki, S.C., Fujita, I. & Amano, K. (2018) Microstructural properties of the vertical occipital fasciculus explain the variability in human stereoacuity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(48), 12289-12294. (*: equal contributions)

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  26. Uesaki, M., Takemura, H. & Ashida, H. (2018) Computational neuroanatomy of human stratum proprium of interparietal sulcus. Brain Structure and Function, 223(1), 489-507.

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  27. Takemura, H., Pestilli, F., Weiner, K.S., Keliris, G.A., Landi, S., Sliwa, J., Ye, F.Q., Barnett, M., Leopold, D.A., Freiwald, W.A., Logothetis, N.K. & Wandell, B.A. (2017) Occipital white matter tracts in human and macaque. Cerebral Cortex, 27(6), 3346-3359.

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  28. Rokem, A., Takemura, H., Bock, A., Scherf, K. S., Behrmann, M., Wandell, B., Fine, I., Bridge, H. & Pestilli, F. (2017) The visual white matter: The application of diffusion MRI and fiber tractography to vision science. Journal of Vision, 17(2):4, 1-30.

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  29. Takemura, H., Caiafa, C.F., Wandell, B.A. & Pestilli, F. (2016) Ensemble Tractography. PLoS Computational Biology, 12(2), e1004692.

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  30. Takemura, H., Rokem, A., Winawer, J., Yeatman, J. D., Wandell, B. A. & Pestilli, F. (2016) A major human white-matter pathway between dorsal and ventral visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 26(5), 2205-2214.

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  31. Ogawa, S., Takemura, H., Horiguchi, H., Terao, M., Haji, T., Pestilli, F., Yeatman, J.D., Tsuneoka, H., Wandell, B.A. & Masuda, Y. (2014) White matter consequences of retinal receptor and ganglion cell damage. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 55(10), 6976-6986.

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  32. Takemura, H., Ashida, H., Amano, K., Kitaoka, A. & Murakami, I. (2012) Neural correlates of induced motion perception in the human brain. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(41), 14344-14354.

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  33. Takemura, H., Tajima, S. & Murakami, I. (2011) Whether dots moving in two directions appear coherent or transparent depends on directional biases induced by surrounding motion. Journal of Vision, 11(14):17, 1-17.

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  34. Takemura, H., Samejima, K., Vogels, R., Sakagami, M. & Okuda, J. (2011) Stimulus-dependent adjustment of reward prediction error in the midbrain. PLoS ONE, 6(12), e28337.

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  35. Takemura, H. & Murakami, I. (2010) Visual motion detection sensitivity is enhanced by an orthogonal motion aftereffect. Journal of Vision, 10(11):7, 1-12.

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  36. Tajima, S., Takemura, H., Murakami, I. & Okada, M. (2010) Neuronal population decoding explains the change in signal detection sensitivity caused by task-irrelevant perceptual bias. Neural Computation, 22(10), 2586-2614.

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  37. Takemura, H. & Murakami, I. (2010) Visual motion detection sensitivity is enhanced by orthogonal induced motion. Journal of Vision, 10(2):9, 1-13.

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