Tsukiura Lab.

Laboratory of Social Neuroscience in Memory and Aging

Department of Cognitive, Behavioral and Health Sciences
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
Japanese

Publications

Articles (international only)

  • Mihara M., Izumika R., Tsukiura T. Remembering unexpected beauty: Contributions of the ventral striatum to the processing of reward prediction errors regarding the facial attractiveness in face memory. Neuroimage, 2023, 282, 120428.
  • Sueyasu T., Yasumoto K., Tokuda H., Kaneda Y., Obata H., Rogi T., Izumo T., Kondo S., Saito J., Tsukiura T., Nakai M. Effects of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in combination with lutein and zeaxanthin on episodic memory in healthy older adults. Nutrients, 2023, 15, 2825.
  • Izumika R., Cabeza R., Tsukiura T. Neural mechanisms of perceiving and subsequently recollecting emotional facial expressions in young and older adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2022, 34, 1183-1204.
  • Tsuruha E., Tsukiura T. Effects of aging on the neural mechanisms underlying the recollection of memories encoded by social interactions with persons in the same and different age groups. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021, 15, 743064.
  • Sugimoto H., Dolcos F., Tsukiura T. Contributions of reward- and memory-related regions to the encoding of winning events in competitions with others. Neuropsychologia, 2021, 152, 107733.
  • Katsumi Y., Kondo N., Dolcos S., Dolcos F., Tsukiura T. Intrinsic functional network contributions to the relationship between trait empathy and subjective happiness. Neuroimage, 2021, 227, 117650.
  • Tokuda H., Ito M., Sueyasu T., Sasaki H., Morita S., Kaneda Y., Rogi T., Kondo S., Kouzaki M., Tsukiura T., Shibata H. Effects of combining exercise with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on cognitive function in the elderly: a randomised controlled trial. Scientific Reports, 2020, 10, 12906-12906.
  • Park P., Ymakado H., Takahashi R., Dote S., Ubukata S., Murai T., Tsukiura T. Reduced enhancement of memory for faces encoded by semantic and socioemotional processes in patients with Parkinson's disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS, 2020, 26, 418-429.
  • Akimoto Y., Yamazaki R., Sugiura M., Nouchi R., Terao C., Tsukiura T., Kawashima R. Approach or avoidance: Neural correlates of intelligence evaluation from faces. European Journal of Neuroscience, 2018, 48, 1680-1690.
  • Dolcos F., Katsumi Y., Weymar M., Moore M., Tsukiura T., Dolcos S. Emerging directions in emotional episodic memory. Frontiers in Psychology, 2017, 8, 1867.
  • Yamawaki R., Nakamura K., Aso T., Shigemune Y., Fukuyama H., Tsukiura T. Remembering my friends: Medial prefrontal and hippocampal contributions to the self-reference effect on face memories in a social context. Human Brain Mapping, 2017, 38, 4256-4269.
  • Shigemune Y., Tsukiura T., Nouchi R., Kambara T., Kawashima R. Neural mechanisms underlying the reward-related enhancement of motivation when remembering episodic memories with high difficulty. Human Brain Mapping, 2017, 38, 3428-3443.
  • Kaneda T., Shigemune Y., Tsukiura T. Lateral and medial prefrontal contributions to emotion generation by semantic elaboration during episodic encoding. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017, 17, 143-157.
  • Sugimoto H., Shigemune Y., Tsukiura T. Competing against a familiar friend: Interactive mechanism of the temporo-parietal junction with the reward-related regions during episodic encoding. Neuroimage, 2016, 130, 261-272.
  • Shingaki H., Park P., Ueda K., Murai T., Tsukiura T. Disturbance of time orientation, attention and verbal memory in amnesic patients with confabulation, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 2016, 38, 171-182.
  • Tsukiura T. Neural correlates of remembering false memories in young and older adults: a brief review of fMRI studies, Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 2014, 3, 155-161.
  • Takada A., Park P., Shigemune Y., Tsukiura T. Health-related QOL and lifestyles are associated with cognitive functions in elderly people, Psychologia, 2014, 57, 177-200.
  • Shigemune Y., Tsukiura T., Kambara T., Kawashima R. Remembering with gains and losses: Effects of monetary rewards and punishments on successful encoding activity of source memories, Cerebral Cortex, 2014, 24, 1319-1331.
  • Tsukiura T., Shigemune Y., Nouchi R., Kambara T., Kawashima R. Age-related differences in prefrontal, parietal and hippocampal activations during correct rejections of faces, Japanese Psychological Research, 2014, 56, 2-14.
  • Tsukiura T., Shigemune Y., Nouchi R., Kambara T., Kawashima R. Insular and hippocampal contributions to remembering people with an impression of bad personality, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2013, 8, 515-522.
  • Kambara T., Tsukiura T., Shigemune Y., Kanno A., Nouchi R., Yomogida Y., Kawashima R. Learning-dependent changes of associations between unfamiliar words and perceptual features: a 15-day longitudinal study, Language Sciences, 2013, 35, 80-86.
  • Kambara T., Tsukiura T., Yokoyama S., Takahashi K., Shigemune Y., Miyamoto T., Takahashi D., Sato S., Kawashima R. Differential contributions of the inferior parietal and inferior frontal regions to the processing of grammatical and semantic relationships in wh-questions, Language Sciences, 2013, 37, 14-21.
  • Tsukiura T. Neural mechanisms underlying the effects of face-based affective signals on memory for faces: a tentative model. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2012, 6, 50.
  • Nouchi R., Taki Y., Takeuchi H., Hashizume H., Akitsuki Y., Shigemune Y., Sekiguchi A., Kotozaki Y., Tsukiura T., Yomogida Y., Kawashima R. Brain training game improves executive functions and processing speed in the elderly: a randomized controlled trial, PLoS One , 2012, 7, e29767.
  • Oikawa H., Sugiura M., Sekiguchi A., Tsukiura T., Miyauchi C.M., Hashimoto T., Takano-Yamamoto T., Kawashima R. Self-face evaluation and self-esteem in young females: An fMRI study using contrast effect, Neuroimage, 2012, 59, 3668-3676.
  • Mano Y., Sugiura M., Tsukiura T., Chao J. Y., Yomogida Y., Jeong H., Sekiguchi A., Kawashima R. The representation of social interaction in episodic memory: A functional MRI study, Neuroimage, 2011, 57, 1234-1242.
  • Tsukiura T., Cabeza R. Remembering beauty: Roles of orbitofrontal and hippocampal regions in successful memory encoding of attractive faces, Neuroimage, 2011, 54, 653-660.
  • Tsukiura T., Sekiguchi A., Yomogida Y., Nakagawa S., Shigemune Y., Kambara T., Akitsuki Y., Taki Y., Kawashima R. Effects of aging on hippocampal and anterior temporal activations during successful retrieval of memory for face-name associations, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011, 23, 200-213.
  • Tsukiura T., Cabeza R. Shared brain activity for aesthetic and moral judgments: implications for the Beauty-is-Good stereotype, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2011, 6, 138-148.
  • Hosseini H., Rostami M., Yomogida Y., Takahashi M., Tsukiura T., Kawashima R. ?Aging and decision making under uncertainty: Behavioral and neural evidence for the preservation of decision making in the absence of learning in old age, Neuroimage, 2010, 52, 1514-1520.
  • Tsukiura T., Mano Y., Sekiguchi A., Yomogida Y., Hoshi K., Kambara T., Takeuchi H., Sugiura M., Kawashima R. Dissociable roles of the anterior temporal regions in successful encoding of memory for person identity information, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010, 22, 2226-2237.
  • Suzuki C., Tsukiura T., Mochizuki-Kawai H., Shigemune Y., Iijima T. Prefrontal and medial temporal contributions to episodic memory-based reasoning, Neuroscience Research, 2009, 63, 177-183.
  • Tsukiura T., Suzuki C., Shigemune Y., Mochizuki-Kawai H. Differential contributions of the anterior temporal and medial temporal lobe to the retrieval of memory for person identity information, Human Brain Mapping, 2008, 29, 1343-1354.
  • Tsukiura T.., Cabeza R. Orbitofrontal and hippocampal contributions to memory for face-name associations: The rewarding power of a smile, Neuropsychologia, 2008, 46, 2310-2319.
  • Okuda J., Fujii T., Ohtake H., Tsukiura T., Yamadori A., Frith C.D., Burgess P.W. Differential involvement of regions of rostral prefrontal cortex (Brodmann area 10) in time- and event-based prospective memory, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2007, 64, 223-246.
  • Prince S.E., Tsukiura T., Cabeza R. Distinguishing the neural correlates of episodic memory encoding and semantic memory retrieval, Psychological Science, 2007, 18, 144-151.
  • Mochizuki-Kawai H., Tsukiura T., Mochizuki S., Kawamura M. Learning-related changes of brain activation in the visual ventral stream: an fMRI study of mirror-reading skill, Brain Research, 2006, 1122, 154-160.
  • Abe N., Suzuki M., Tsukiura T., Mori E., Yamaguchi K., Itoh M., Fujii T. Dissociable roles of prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in deception. Cerebral Cortex, 2006, 16, 192-199.
  • Tsukiura T., Mochizuki-Kawai H., Fujii T. Dissociable roles of the bilateral anterior temporal lobe in face-name associations: an event-related fMRI study, Neuroimage, 2006, 30, 617-626.
  • Fujii T., Suzuki M., Suzuki K., Ohtake H., Tsukiura T., Miura R. Normal memory and no confabulation after extensive damage to the orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 2005, 76, 1309-1310.
  • Suzuki M., Tsukiura T., Matsue Y., Yamadori A., Fujii T. Dissociable brain activations during the retrieval of different kinds of spatial context memory. Neuroimage, 2005; 25: 993-1001.
  • Tsukiura T., Mochizuki-Kawai H., Fujii T. The effect of encoding strategies on medial temporal lobe activations during the recognition of words: An event-related fMRI study, Neuroimage, 2005, 25, 452-461.
  • Lee H., Fujii T., Okuda J., Tsukiura T., Umetsu A., Suzuki M., Nagasaka T., Takahashi S., Yamadori A. Changes in brain activation patterns associated with learning of Korean words by Japanese: an fMRI study. Neuroimage, 2003, 20, 1-11.
  • Nomura M., Iidaka T., Kakehi K., Tsukiura T., Hasegawa T., Maeda Y., Matsue Y. Frontal lobe networks for effective processing of ambiguously expressed emotions in humans. Neuroscience Letters, 2003, 348, 113-116.
  • Tsukiura T., Ohtake H., Fujii T., Miura R., Ogawa T., Yamadori A. Preserved ability to recognize keywords related to remote events in the absence of retrieval of relevant knowledge: a case of postencephalitic amnesia, Brain and Cognition, 2003, 51, 1-11.
  • Tsukiura T., Namiki M., Fujii T., Iijima T. Time-dependent neural activations related to recognition of people’s names in emotional and neutral face-name associative learning: An fMRI study, Neuroimage, 2003, 20, 784-794.
  • Okuda J., Fujii T., Ohtake H., Tsukiura T., Tanji K., Suzuki K., Kawashima R., Fukuda H., Itoh M., Yamadori A. Thinking of the future and past: the roles of the frontal pole and the medial temporal lobes, Neuroimage, 2003, 19, 1369-1380.
  • Umetsu A., Okuda J., Fujii T., Tsukiura T., Nagasaka T., Yanagawa I., Sugiura M., Inoue K., Kawashima R., Suzuki K., Tabuchi M., Murata T., Mugikura S., Higano S., Takahashi S., Fukuda H., Yamadori A. Brain activation during the fist-edge-palm test: a functional MRI study. Neuroimage, 2002, 17, 385-392.
  • Fujii T., Okuda J., Tsukiura T., Ohtake H., Suzuki M., Kawashima R., Itoh M., Fukuda H., Yamadori A. Encoding-related brain activity during deep processing of verbal materials: a PET study. Neuroscience Research, 2002, 44, 429-438.
  • Fujii T., Okuda J., Tsukiura T., Ohtake H., Miura R., Fukatsu R., Suzuki K., Kawashima R., Itoh M., Fukuda H., Yamadori A. The role of the basal forebrain in episodic memory retrieval: a positron emission tomography study, Neuroimage, 2002, 15, 501-508.
  • Suzuki M., Fujii T., Tsukiura T., Okuda J., Umetsu A., Nagasaka T., Mugikura S., Yanagawa I., Takahashi S., Yamadori A. Neural basis of temporal context memory: a functional MRI study, Neuroimage, 2002, 17, 1790-1796.
  • Tsukiura T., Fujii T., Okuda J., Ohtake H., Kawashima R., Itoh M., Fukuda H., Yamadori A. Time-dependent contribution of the hippocampal complex when remembering the past: a PET study, Neuroreport, 2002, 13, 2319-2323.
  • Tsukiura T., Fujii T., Takahashi T., Xiao R., Sugiura M., Okuda J., Iijima T., Yamadori A. Medial temporal lobe activation during context-dependent relational processes in episodic retrieval: an fMRI study, Human Brain Mapping, 2002, 17, 203-213.
  • Tsukiura T., Fujii T., Fukatsu R., Otsuki T., Okuda J., Umetsu A., Suzuki K., Tabuchi M., Yanagawa I., Nagasaka T., Kawashima R., Fukuda H., Takahashi S., Yamadori A. Neural basis of the retrieval of people's names: evidence from brain-damaged patients and fMRI, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2002, 14, 922-937.
  • Yamadori A., Suzuki K., Shimada M., Tsukiura T., Morishima T., Fujii T. Isolated and focal retrograde amnesia: a hiatus in the past. Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine 2001; 193: 57-65.
  • Sugiura M., Kawashima R., Takahashi T., Xiao R., Tsukiura T., Sato K., Kawano K., Iijima T., Fukuda H. Different distribution of the activated areas in the dorsal premotor cortex during visual and auditory reaction-time tasks. Neuroimage, 2001, 14 , 1168-1174.
  • Tsukiura T., Fujii T., Takahashi T., Xiao R., Inase M., Iijima T., Okuda J. Neuroanatomical discrimination between manipulating and maintaining processes involved in verbal working memory; a functional MRI study, Brain Research Cognitive Brain Research, 2001, 11, 13-21.
  • Okuda J., Fujii T., Yamadori A., Kawashima R., Tsukiura T., Ohtake H., Fukatsu R., Suzuki K., Itoh M., Fukuda H. Retention of words in long-term memory: a functional neuroanatomical study with PET. Neuroreport 2000; 11: 323-328.
  • Meguro Y., Fujii T., Yamadori A., Tsukiura T., Suzuki K., Okuda J., Osaka M. The nature of age-related decline on the reading span task. Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology 2000; 22: 391-398.
  • Kawashima R., Okuda J., Umetsu A., Sugiura M., Inoue K., Suzuki K., Tabuchi M., Tsukiura T., Narayan L. S., Nagasaka T., Yanagawa I., Fujii T.,Takahashi S., Fukuda H., Yamadori A. Human cerebellum plays an important role in memory-timed finger movement: an fMRI study. Journal of Neurophysiology 2000; 83: 1079-1087.
  • Fukatsu R., Fujii T., Tsukiura T., Yamadori A., Otsuki T. Proper name anomia after left temporal lobectomy: a patient study. Neurology 1999; 52: 1096-1099.
  • Tsukiura T., Fujii T., Yamadori A., Hosokawa T. Hemispheric asymmetry in a perceptual priming task: evidence from patients with unilateral brain damage. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 1999, 88, 457-465.
  • Okuda J., Fujii T., Yamadori A., Kawashima R., Tsukiura T., Fukatsu R., Suzuki K., Ito M., Fukuda H. Participation of the prefrontal cortices in prospective memory: evidence from a PET study in humans. Neuroscience Letters 1998; 253: 127-130.
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Book edited (international only)

  • Tsukiura T. and Umeda S. (2018). Memory in a Social Context: Brain, Mind, and Society, Springer Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
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Book chapters (international only)

  • Shigemune Y., Tsukiura T. (2018). Modulatory mechanisms of three-layered hierarchical structure in memories associated with rewards and punishments. In Tsukiura T. and Umeda S. (Eds.). Memory in a Social Context: Brain, Mind, and Society, Springer Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Tsukiura T. (2011). Effects of face-based social signals on face memory processes. In Kawashima R., Sugiura M., Tsukiura T. (Eds.). New Frontiers in Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Press, Sendai, Japan.
  • Okuda J., Fujii T., Ohtake H., Tsukiura T., Umetsu A., Suzuki M., Yamadori A. (2002). Brain mechanisms underlying human prospective memory. In Yamadori A., Kawashima R., Hujii T., Suzuki K. (Eds.). Frontiers of Human Memory, Tohoku University Press, Sendai, Japan.
  • Fujii T., Okuda J., Tsukiura T., Ohtake H., Suzuki M., Yamadori A. (2002). Episodic memory encoding and the medial temporal lobe. In Yamadori A., Kawashima R., Hujii T., Suzuki K. (Eds.). Frontiers of Human Memory, Tohoku University Press, Sendai, Japan.
  • Tsukiura T., Fujii T., Fukatu R., Otsuki T., Okuda J., Umetsu A., Suzuki K., Tabuchi M., Yanagawa I., Nagasawa T., Kawashima R., Fukuda H., Takahashi S., Yamadori A. (2002). Neural basis of people’s name retrieval: Evidence from brain-damaged patients and fMRI. In Yamadori A., Kawashima R., Fujii T., Suzuki K. (Eds.). Frontiers of Human Memory, Tohoku University Press, Sendai, Japan.
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Invited talks (international only)

  • Tsukiura T.: Neural mechanisms of human social memory, International Symposium: Towards Understanding “INDIVIDUALITY”, Kyoto, Japan, July, 2018.
  • Tsukiura T.: Neural mechanisms underlying the effects of rewards on human long-term memories, NTU-Kyoto University Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2015.
  • Tsukiura T.: Neuropsychologial and functional neuroimaging investigations of confabulation and time in memory, International Symposium on the Science of Mental Time, Tokyo, Japan, September, 2015.
  • Tsukiura T.: Effects of aging on memory-related activations and of lifestyles on memory functions in elderly people, International Symposium on Aging Brain, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, October, 2014.
  • Tsukiura T.: Age-related differences of activations in the processing of human episodic memories, 78th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association Symposium, "Plasticity and Neuro-Cognitive Characteristics of Aging Brain", Kyoto, Japan, September 2014.
  • Tsukiura T.: Remembering faces: The impact of face-based social signals on memory for faces, 43rd NIPS International Symposium, Okazaki, Japan, November 2012.
  • Tsukiura T.: Remembering faces: Effects of face-based social signals on memory for faces. Toward understanding of neural network of recognition. Neuro2011 Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, September 2011.
  • Tsukiura T.: Effects of face-based social signals on face memory processes. International Symposium: New Frontiers in Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Sendai, Japan, November 2009.
  • Tsukiura T.: Retrieval of people’s names: Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging approach. Memory at Duke (MAD) Meeting, Duke University, Durham, USA., August 2004.
  • Tsukiura T.: Neural basis of people’s name retrieval: Evidence from brain-damaged patients and fMRI, Frontiers of Human Memory, Sendai, Japan, October 2001.
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