Atsushi Yokoi
Main Lab Location：
CiNet (Main bldg.)Mailing Address：
1-4 Yamadaoka, Suita City, Osaka, 565-0871, JapanEmail：
ayokoi at nict.go.jpDespite having a highly complex body, humans can flexibly learn, select, and execute motor skills according to changing external environments—such as the properties of tools or the terrain. Motor performance is also shaped by internal factors, including bodily states and mood.
Our research aims to uncover the neural mechanisms that support this flexibility—and to understand when and why it becomes constrained.
To address these questions, we combine behavioral experiments, physiological recordings, computational modeling, and high-resolution functional brain imaging using ultra-high-field MRI.
Selected Publications：
Nogami M., Hagura N., Yokoi A. Autonomic responses to proprioceptive and visual errors during single-trial reach adaptation. Journal of Neurophysiology. 134: 1912–1926, 2025.
Yokoi A. What can ANS signals tell us about motor learning? An implication for better assessment of cognitive contribution to motor learning. Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciences. 2025 Oct 24;19:1715460. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2025.1715460.
Ogasa K., Yokoi A., Okazawa G., Nishigaki M., Hirashima M., Hagura N. Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(9): 1738-1751 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01911-x
Okumura T., Kida I., Yokoi A., Nakai T., Nishimoto S., Touhara K., Okamoto M. Semantic context-dependent neural representations of odors in the human piriform cortex revealed by 7T MRI. Human Brain Mapping. 45(6):e26681, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26681.
Yokoi A., Weiler J., Pupil diameter tracked during motor adaptation in humans. Journal of Neurophysiology. 128(5): 1224-1243, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00021.2022
Yokoi A., Diedrichsen J. Neural organization of hierarchical motor sequence representations in the human neocortex. Neuron. Volume 103, Pages 1178-1190, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.06.017
Yokoi A., Arbuckle S.A., and Diedrichsen J. The role of human primary motor cortex in the production of skilled finger sequences. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(6): 1430-1442, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2798-17.2017
Diedrichsen J., Yokoi A., and Arbuckle S.A. Pattern component modeling: A flexible approach for understanding the representational structure of brain activity patterns. Neuroimage. Volume 180, Part A, 15 October 2018, Pages 119-133, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.08.051
More publications are available on Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xWoc6bEAAAAJ&hl=en