Hiroki Watanabe

Main Lab Location:
CiNet (Kobe)
Specific Research Topic:
EEG/MEG Signal Processing, Modeling and Equipment Development
Mailing Address:
588-2, Iwaoka, Iwaoka-cho, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyougo 651-2492, Japan

We are not always aware of our mood and cognitive states and may not notice changes in these states. Measuring brain activity in daily life is one effective means of monitoring changes in our cognitive states of which we are unaware.
My research theme is to develop applications that use electroencephalographic measurements in real-world environments to estimate human cognitive states that are difficult to recognize explicitly, such as mental workload, mood, and motivation, and apply them to neurofeedback, rehabilitation, and learning systems.

Selected Publications:

Watanabe H. et al. (2021). Differences in Mechanical Parameters of Keyboard Switches Modulate Motor Preparation: A Wearable EEG Study. Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, 2:644449.

Watanabe, H. et al. (2021). Eye-Fixation-Related Potentials (EFRPs) As a Predictor of Human Error Occurrences During a Visual Inspection Task, Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 5820-5823.

Watanabe, H., Tanaka, H., Sakti, S., & Nakamura, S. (2020). Synchronization between overt speech envelope and EEG oscillations during imagined speech. Neuroscience research, 153, 48-55.

Watanabe, H., Tanaka, H., Sakti, S., & Nakamura, S. (2019). Neural oscillation-based classification of Japanese spoken sentences during speech perception. IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, 102(2), 383-391.