Junya Hirokawa, Ph.D.
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- Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow
National Institute for Basic Biology (Okazaki, Japan)
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Biology, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Sokendai (Hayama, Japan)B.Sc., Biology, Shizuoka University (Shizuoka, Japan)
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Past Advisors:
Tetsuo Yamamori (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)Takashi Ushimaru (as Graduate Student - Masters)Shipei Yamada (as Undergraduate Student)
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Research:
Neural mechanisms of behavioral enhancement induced by multisensory integration in rats
My research interest is neural mechanisms of perception and cognitive abilities of animals. I study those brain functions by combining behavioral analysis, neural imaging and specific modulations of activities or structures of neural networks. My current research is focused on neuronal basis of behaivoral enhancement induced by multisenosry integration. I'm conducting gene expression mapping, singleunit extracellular recordings using tetrodes and drug-injections in the behaving rats.
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Junya Hirokawa's Publications (3)
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Functional role of the secondary visual cortex in multisensory facilitation in rats.
Neuroscience. 2008 Jun 2;153(4):1402-17
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Analysis of area-specific expression patterns of RORbeta, ER81 and Nurr1 mRNAs in rat neocortex by double in situ hybridization and cortical box method.
PLoS ONE. 2008;3(9):e3266
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Atomic force microscopy studies of interaction of the 20S proteasome with supported lipid bilayers.
Biochimica et biophysica acta. 2003 Sep 2;1615(1-2):1-6
Junya Hirokawa's Posters and Presentations (1)
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Critical role of superior colliculus in facilitating the behavioral accuracy but not the speed by audiovisual integration (poster)
J. Hirokawa, O. Sadakane, S. Sakata, M. Bosch, Y. Sakurai, and T. Yamamori
Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC; 11/2008
One Figure
The figure shows the activation sites by integration of auditory and visual stimuli in the "flattened" posterir cortex of rats. See PubmedID:18440715 for detail.
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