Research areas	systems neuroscience, animal psychology, computational behaviour
Keywords	consciousness and will, self and others, social or collective intelligence, neuroinformatics
Themes	Neural basis for subjectivity Physiology and pathology of metacognition Social behavior and science Body, brain and rhythm
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” Nikkuni, A., Komura, Y., Numata, K., Journal of Rehabilitation Neurosciences 15, 5-15, 2015, “Different processes of subjective certainty between visual detection and discrimination task”
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 Cognitive function A & B 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 Introduction to 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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