Research areas	systems neuroscience, evolutional intelligence, cognitive computation
Keywords	consciousness and inference, neuroinformatics, complex system
Themes	Biological constrain of (un)consciousness The rhythm and self-organization in the brain Causal inference, cross-species comparison Meta-learning, exploration/exploitation
Major publications	Komura, Y., Tamura, R., Uwano, T., Nishijo, H., Kaga, K. & Ono, T., Nature 412, 546-549, 2001, “Retrospective and prospective coding for predicted reward in the sensory thalamus” Komura, Y., Tamura, R., Uwano, T., Nishijo, H. & Ono, T., Nature Neuroscience 8 (9), 1203-1209, 2005, “Auditory thalamus integrates visual inputs into behavioral gains” Komura, Y., Nikkuni, A., Hirashima, N., Uetake, T. & Miyamoto, A.,　Nature Neuroscience 16 (6), 749-755, 2013, “Responses of pulvinar neurons reflect a subject’s confidence in visual categorization” Kanai, R., Komura, Y., Shipp, S, Friston, K., Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 370 (1668), 2015, “Cerebral hierarchies: predictive processing, precision and the pulvinar” Fujimoto, S., Noguchi, M., Komura, Y., J Artificial Intelligence 33, 468-471, 2018, “Biology for consciousness from the viewpoint of metacognition” Chinen, K., Kawabata, A., Tanaka, H., Komura, Y. iScience 26,108208, 2023, “Inaccessible time to visual awareness during attentional blinks in macaques and humans”
Professional societies/Research and synergic activities	Society for Neuroscience Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Japan Neuroscience Society Physiological Society of Japan
Teaching Areas	Undergraduate courses Seminar for Brain and Life Sciences I, II Systems Neuroscience Graduate courses (Master's program) Seminar on Cognitive Science 2 Graduate courses (Doctor's program) General Seminar on Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences 2 Undergraduate courses open to all departments Brain and Machine Systems biology for Brain Sciences
Background	The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Medicine The University of Tokyo, Graduate school of Medicine Advanced Industrial Science and Technology JST, PRESTO University of Sussex, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science Kyoto University (present)

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