Newcastle University

Research Experiences:

National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan (1999 to 2002)

National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health, USA (2002 to 2007)

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany (2007)

Georgetown University, USA (2007 to 2011)

PhD. Behavioural Science, Hokkaido University (2002)

My long-term research goal is to better understand the complex adaptive systems at the cellular and behavioural levels in higher auditory functions. I am especially interested in the interactions of neuronal responses that emerge the regularities to form a pattern which feeds back into the system, and how such an emergence-feedback loop can affect our behaviour. I address this question through multiple experimental approaches (i.e., behavioural science, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, and histology). 

Research interests

Complex adaptive systems with experimental techniques at the cellular and behavioural levels in auditory system: self-similarity, regularities, pattern analysis, connectivity in higher auditory functions (e.g., music and language).  

• Banerjee A, Kikuchi Y, Rauschecker JP, Mishkin M, Horwitz B. Decoding network mechanisms underlying complex sound discrimination using chronometry on trial-by-trial spike-field responses. In: Society for Neuroscience. 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. In Press.
• Kikuchi Y, Kumar S, Baumann S, Overath T, Griffiths T, Petkov C. Neuronal Representation of Temporal Regularity Associated with Pitch Perception in Macaque Auditory Cortex. In: Society for Neuroscience. 2012, New Orleans, USA. Submitted.
• Kikuchi Y, Horwitz B, Mishkin M, Rauschecker JP. Harmonic preference in the lateral belt of rhesus monkey auditory cortex. In: Society for Neuroscience. 2011, Washington DC, USA.
• Kikuchi Y, Lawson M, Horwitz B, Mishkin M, Rauschecker JP. Neuronal representation of harmonics in monkey auditory cortex. In: Society for Neuroscience. 2011, Washington, DC, USA.
• Kikuchi Y, Horwitz B, Mishkin M. Hierarchical auditory processing directed rostrally along the monkey’s supratemporal plane. Journal of Neuroscience 2010, 30(39), 13021.
• Petkov CI, Kikuchi Y, Rauschecker JP, Mishkin M, Augath M, Logothetis NK. Evaluating auditory network connectivity with combined microstimulation and functional imaging in the monkey. In: The Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO). 2009, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• Petkov CI, Kikuchi Y, Augath M, Mishkin M, Rauschecker J, Logothetis NK. Voice region connectivity in the monkey assessed with microstimulation and functional imaging. In: 6th APAN Satellite Meeting to Society for Neuroscience. 2008, Washington DC Convention Center.
• Kikuchi Y, Horwitz B, Mishkin M. Caudorostral progression of auditory information processing on the monkey’s supratemporal plane. In: Advances & Perspectivess in Auditory Neurophysiology (APAN). 2008, Washington DC, USA.
• Kikuchi Y, Rauschecker JP, Mishkin M, Augath M, Logothetis NK, Petkov CI. Voice region connectivity in the monkey assessed with microstimulation and functional imaging. In: Society for Neuroscience. 2008, Washington DC, USA.
• Kikuchi Y, Sawaguchi T, Miyauchi S. Cognitive neuroscience and functional MRI. Journal of Diagnostic Imaging 2002, 27(5), 475-482.
• Sawaguchi T, Iba M, Kikuchi-Yorioka Y, Fukushi T. Working memory and prefrontal cortex. In: Tanji, J., Yoshizawa, S, ed. Higher Brain Function. Tokyo: Asakura Publishing, 2001, pp.251-269.
• Kikuchi-Yorioka Y, Sawaguchi T. Parallel visuospatial and audiospatial working memory processes in the monkey dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience 2000, 3(11), 1075-1076.
• Sawaguchi T, Kikuchi Y. Noradrenergic effects on activity of prefrontal cortical neurons in behaving monkeys. Adv. Pharmacol 1998, 42, 759-763.
• Kikuchi Y, Barrett J, Attaheri A, Wilson B, Petkov C. Neuroimaging and neurophysiology of Artificial Grammar learning in the primate brain: Dissociations between fMRI-BOLD and neuronal activity. In: Advances & Perspectives in Auditory Neurophysiology. 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.