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What is consciousness? Can we tell if other animals experience subjectivity, or whether there will be conscious machines or robots? These fundamental philosophical questions are now being explored by neuroscientist Associate Professor Nao Tsuchiya and his team.
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Research interests
Why and how does our subjective conscious experience emerge from physical electrochemical activity in the brain? Why is neuronal activity in the cortex, but not in the cerebellum, responsible for consiousness? Do any other animals experience subjectivity? If so, how can we know? Will there be conscious machines or robots? How can we test it? These are fascinating fundamental questions, which used to be questions for philosophers, but now they are for neuroscientists. In particular, our current projects focus on:
1. Behavioural effects and neuronal correlates of conscious and non-conscious processing.
2. Clarifying the differences and relationship of the neuronal mechanisms of consciousness and attention.
3. Analysis of multi-channel neurophysiological data to understand the neuronal mechanisms of consciousness.
4. Testing and developing quantitative theories of consciousness using empircal neuronal data.
Monash teaching commitment
PSY3280 Neural basis of consciousness
Education/Academic qualification
Computation and Neural Systems, PhD, California Institute of Technology
1 Sep 2000 → 1 Jul 2005
Award Date: 1 Jul 2006
Science, Bachelor, Kyoto University
1 Apr 1996 → 31 Mar 2000
Award Date: 31 Mar 2000
External positions
Visiting Researcher, Osaka University
1 Dec 2015 → …Visiting Researcher, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
1 Nov 2010 → …Research area keywords
- Consciousness
- Neuroscience
- Attention
- Decoding
- Electrophysiological recordings
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Projects
Integrating theory-guided and data-driven approaches for measuring consciousness
Tsuchiya, N., Fulcher, B., Carter, O. L., Andrillon, T. & Hogendoorn, H.
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1/01/20 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
Neural origins of conscious perception in no-report paradigms
Tsuchiya, N., Oizumi, M., Kawasaki, H. & Tononi, G.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
31/07/18 → 31/07/21
Project: Research
Multimodal testing for a fast subcortical route for salient visual stimuli
Garrido, M., Tsuchiya, N., Rustishauser, U. & Adolphs, R.
1/01/18 → 1/01/21
Project: Research
Emergent agency from collective dynamics
Modi, K., Tsuchiya, N. & Hohwy, J.
1/03/19 → 11/02/20
Project: Research
Testing theories of consciousness with no-report paradigms in human intracranial recording
Tsuchiya, N., Haun, A., Kawasaki, H. & Tononi, G.
2/01/17 → 1/01/19
Project: Research
Research Output
A general spectral decomposition of causal influences applied to integrated information
Cohen, D., Sasai, S., Tsuchiya, N. & Oizumi, M., 15 Jan 2020, In : Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 330, 14 p., 108443.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A reply to “the unfolding argument”: Beyond functionalism/behaviorism and towards a science of causal structure theories of consciousness
Tsuchiya, N., Andrillon, T. & Haun, A., Mar 2020, In : Consciousness and Cognition. 79, 6 p., 102877.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review
Motion-Induced Blindness as a Tool to Measure Attentional Biases and the Link to Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Traits
McEwen, C., Paton, B., Tsuchiya, N. & van Boxtel, J. J. A., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Does the Mind Wander When the Brain Takes a Break? Local Sleep in Wakefulness, Attentional Lapses and Mind-Wandering
Andrillon, T., Windt, J., Silk, T. J., Drummond, S. P. A., Bellgrove, M. A. & Tsuchiya, N., 13 Sep 2019, In : Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13, 10 p., 949.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
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Citations
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Expectation and attention increase the integration of top-down and bottom-up signals in perception through different pathways
Gordon, N., Tsuchiya, N., Koenig-Robert, R. & Hohwy, J., 30 Apr 2019, In : PLoS Biology. 17, 4, 28 p., e3000233.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Activities
Convergence Science Network
Nao Tsuchiya (Contributor)
2019
Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Consciousness and Cognition (Journal)
Nao Tsuchiya (Editorial board member)
2017
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
From Neural Basis of Consciousness to Artificial Consciousness
Nao Tsuchiya (Contributor)
2016
Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Invited Lecturer for 4 summer schoolsConsciousness: from theory to practice. Neuroscience School of Advanced School (NSAS), Venice, Italy, 2018 (organized by Giulio Tononi) Participated as a co-presenter. Initiative for the Synthesis of Studies of Awareness (ISSA), Japan, 2017 (Lecturer: Tsuchiya, Kanai, Albantakis, Zahavi, Tani, Amano, Nishimoto, Yamagishi, Doya, Nagai, Ishiguro, Osaka, Hut) Initiative for the Synthesis of Studies of Awareness (ISSA), Japan, 2015 (Tsuchiya, Wilke, Gallagher, Myowa, Doya, Asada, Nagai, Amano, Nishimoto, Colombetti, Virgo, Guttenberg, Smith, Hut) Lecture at Autumn School for Computational Neuroscience (ASCONE) 2016, Nagano, Japan
Nao Tsuchiya (Organiser)
2015 → …
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
Neuroscience of Consciousness (Journal)
Nao Tsuchiya (Associate editor)
2015 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility