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Chang, Acer Y-C, Schwartzman, David, VanRullen, Rufin, Kanai, Ryota and Seth, Anil K (2017) Visual perceptual echo reflects learning of regularities in rapid luminance sequences. Journal of Neuroscience, 37 (35). pp. 8486-8497. ISSN 0270-6474

Kanai, Ryota, Dalmaijer, Edwin S, Sherman, Maxine T, Kawakita, Genji and Paffen, Chris L E (2017) Larger stimuli require longer processing time for perception. Perception, 46 (5). pp. 605-623. ISSN 0301-0066

Otten, Marte, Pinto, Yair, Pfaffen, Chris L E, Seth, Anil K and Kanai, Ryota (2017) The uniformity illusion: central stimuli can determine peripheral perception. Psychological Science, 28 (1). pp. 56-68. ISSN 0956-7976

Sherman, Maxine T, Seth, Anil K and Kanai, Ryota (2016) Predictions shape confidence in the right inferior frontal gyrus. Journal of Neuroscience, 36 (40). pp. 10323-10336. ISSN 0270-6474

Sherman, Maxine T, Kanai, Ryota, Seth, Anil K and VanRullen, Rufin (2016) Rhythmic influence of top-down perceptual priors in the phase of pre-stimulus occipital alpha oscillations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28 (9). pp. 1318-1330. ISSN 0898-929X

Schauer, Georg, Chang, Acer, Schwartzman, David, Rae, Charlotte L, Iriye, Heather, Seth, Anil K and Kanai, Ryota (2016) Fractionation of parietal function in bistable perception probed with concurrent TMS-EEG. Scientific Data, 3. ISSN 2052-4463

Ward, Jamie, Rothen, Nicolas, Chang, Acer and Kanai, Ryota (2016) The structure of inter-individual differences in visual ability: evidence from the general population and synaesthesia. Vision Research, 141. pp. 293-302. ISSN 0042-6989

Hayashi, Masamichi J, Ditye, Thomas, Harada, Tokiko, Hashiguchi, Maho, Sadato, Norihiro, Carlson, Synnöve, Walsh, Vincent and Kanai, Ryota (2015) Time adaptation shows duration selectivity in the human parietal cortex. PLoS Biology, 13 (9). e1002262 1-27. ISSN 1545-7885

Sherman, M T, Seth, A K, Barrett, A B and Kanai, R (2015) Prior expectations facilitate metacognition for perceptual decision. Consciousness and Cognition, 35. pp. 53-65. ISSN 1053-8100

Kanai, Ryota, Komura, Yataka, Shipp, Stewart and Friston, Karl (2015) Cerebral hierarchies: predictive processing, precision and the pulvinar. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370 (1668). 20140169 1-13. ISSN 0962-8436

Hibar, Derrek P, Stein, Jason L, Renteria, Miguel E, Arias-Vasquez, Alejandro, Desrivières, Sylvane, Jahanshad, Neda, Toro, Roberto, Wittfeld, Katharina, Abramovic, Lucija, Andersson, Micael, Aribisala, Benjamin S, Armstrong, Nicola J, Bernard, Manon, Bohlken, Marc M, Boks, Marco P, Bralten, Janita, Brown, Andrew A, Mallar Chakravarty, M., Chen, Qiang, Ching, Christopher R K, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, den Braber, Anouk, Giddaluru, Sudheer, Goldman, Aaron L, Grimm, Oliver, Guadalupe, Tulio, Hass, Johanna, Woldehawariat, Girma, Holmes, Avram J, Hoogman, Martine, Janowitz, Deborah, Jia, Tianye, Kim, Sungeun, Klein, Marieke, Kraemer, Bernd, Lee, Phil H., Olde Loohuis, Loes M., Luciano, Michelle, Macare, Christine, Mather, Karen A., Mattheisen, Manuel, Milaneschi, Yuri, Nho, Kwangsik, Papmeyer, Martina, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Risacher, Shannon L, Roiz-Santiañez, Roberto, Rose, Emma J, Salami, Alireza, Sämann, Philipp G, Schmaal, Lianne, Schork, Andrew J, Shin, Jean, Strike, Lachlan T, Teumer, Alexander, van Donkelaar, Marjolein M J, van Eijk, Kristel R, Walters, Raymond K, Westlye, Lars T, Whelan, Christopher D, Winkler, Anderson M, Zwiers, Marcel P, Alhusaini, Saud, Athanasiu, Lavinia, Ehrlich, Stefan, Hakobjan, Marina M H, Hartberg, Cecilie B, Haukvik, Unn K, Heister, Angelien J G A M, Hoehn, David, Kasperaviciute, Dalia, Liewald, David C M, Lopez, Lorna M, Makkinje, Remco R R, Matarin, Mar, Naber, Marlies A M, Reese McKay, D, Needham, Margaret, Nugent, Allison C, Pütz, Benno, Royle, Natalie A, Shen, Li, Sprooten, Emma, Trabzuni, Daniah, van der Marel, Saskia S L, van Hulzen, Kimm J E, Walton, Esther, Wolf, Christiane, Kanai, Ryota, The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, , The CHARGE Consortium, , EPIGEN, , IMAGEN, , SYS, , Martin, Nicholas G, Wright, Margaret J, Schumann, Gunter, Franke, Barbara, Thompson, Paul M, Medland, Sarah E and others, (2015) Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures. Nature, 520 (7546). pp. 224-229. ISSN 0028-0836

Chang, Acer Y C, Kanai, Ryota and Seth, Anil K (2015) Cross-modal prediction changes the timing of conscious access during motion-induced blindness. Consciousness and Cognition, 31. pp. 139-147. ISSN 1053-8100

Loh, Kep Kee and Kanai, Ryota (2014) Higher media multi-tasking activity is associated with smaller gray-matter density in the anterior cingulate cortex. PLoS ONE, 9 (9). e106698. ISSN 1932-6203

Hayashi, Masamichi J, Kantele, Moona, Walsh, Vincent, Carlson, Synnöve and Kanai, Ryota (2014) Dissociable neuroanatomical correlates of subsecond and suprasecond time perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 (8). pp. 1685-1693. ISSN 0898-929X

Gu, Jenny and Kanai, Ryota (2014) What contributes to individual differences in brain structure? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8 (262). pp. 1-6. ISSN 1662-5161

Gilaie-Dotan, Sharon, Kanai, Ryota, Bahrami, Bahador, Rees, Geraint and Saygin, Ayse P (2013) Neuroanatomical correlates of biological motion detection. Neuropsychologia, 51 (3). pp. 457-463. ISSN 1873-3514

Hayashi, Masamichi J, Kanai, Ryota, Tanabe, Hiroki C, Yoshida, Yumiko, Carlson, Synnöve, Walsh, Vincent and Sadato, Norihiro (2013) Interaction of numerosity and time in prefrontal and parietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 33 (3). pp. 883-893. ISSN 0270-6474

Sandberg, Kristian, Bahrami, Bahador, Kanai, Ryota, Barnes, Gareth Robert, Overgaard, Morten and Rees, Geraint (2013) Early visual responses predict conscious face perception within and between subjects during binocular rivalry. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 25 (6). pp. 969-985. ISSN 0898-929X

de Haas, Benjamin, Kanai, Ryota, Jalkanen, Lauri and Rees, Geraint (2012) Grey matter volume in early human visual cortex predicts proneness to the sound-induced flash illusion. Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 279 (1749). pp. 4955-4961. ISSN 1471-2954

Hagura, Nobuhiro, Kanai, Ryota, Orgs, Guido and Haggard, Patrick (2012) Ready steady slow: action preparation slows the subjective passage of time. Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 279 (1746). pp. 4399-4406. ISSN 1471-2954

Kanai, Ryota, Bahrami, Bahador, Duchaine, Brad, Janik, Agnieszka, Banissy, Michael J and Rees, Geraint (2012) Brain structure links loneliness to social perception. Current Biology, 22 (20). pp. 1975-1979. ISSN 1879-0445

Sharot, Tali, Kanai, Ryota, Marston, David, Korn, Christoph W, Rees, Geraint and Dolan, Raymond J (2012) Selectively altering belief formation in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (42). pp. 17058-62. ISSN 1091-6490

Banissy, Michael J, Kanai, Ryota, Walsh, Vincent and Rees, Geraint (2012) Inter-individual differences in empathy are reflected in human brain structure. NeuroImage, 62 (3). pp. 2034-2039. ISSN 1095-9572

Gilaie-Dotan, Sharon, Harel, Assaf, Bentin, Shlomo, Kanai, Ryota and Rees, Geraint (2012) Neuroanatomical correlates of visual car expertise. NeuroImage, 62 (1). pp. 147-153. ISSN 1095-9572

Lewis, Gary J, Kanai, Ryota, Bates, Timothy C and Rees, Geraint (2012) Moral values are associated with individual differences in regional brain volume. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 24 (8). pp. 1657-1663. ISSN 1530-8898

Bardi, Lara, Kanai, Ryota, Mapelli, Daniela and Walsh, Vincent (2012) TMS of the FEF interferes with spatial conflict. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24 (6). pp. 1305-1313. ISSN 0898-929X

Kanai, Ryota and Tsuchiya, Naotsugu (2012) Qualia. Current Biology, 22 (10). R392-R396. ISSN 1879-0445

Bardi, Lara, Kanai, Ryota, Mapelli, Daniela and Walsh, Vincent (2012) Direct current stimulation (tDCS) reveals parietal asymmetry in local/global and salience-based selection. Cortex, 49 (3). pp. 850-860. ISSN 0010-9452

Kanai, Ryota, Muggleton, Neil and Walsh, Vincent (2012) Transcranial direct current stimulation of the frontal eye fields during pro- and antisaccade tasks. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 3. 45; 1-10. ISSN 1664-0640

Kanai, R, Bahrami, B, Roylance, R and Rees, G (2012) Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure. Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 279 (1732). pp. 1327-1334. ISSN 1471-2954

Campbell-Meiklejohn, Daniel K, Kanai, Ryota, Bahrami, Bahador, Bach, Dominik R, Dolan, Raymond J, Roepstorff, Andreas and Frith, Chris D (2012) Structure of orbitofrontal cortex predicts social influence. Current Biology, 22 (4). R123-R124. ISSN 0960-9822

Song, Chen, Kanai, Ryota, Fleming, Stephen M, Weil, Rimona S, Schwarzkopf, D Samuel and Rees, Geraint (2011) Relating inter-individual differences in metacognitive performance on different perceptual tasks. Consciousness and Cognition, 20 (4). pp. 1787-1792. ISSN 1053-8100

Gilaie-Dotan, Sharon, Kanai, Ryota and Rees, Geraint (2011) Anatomy of human sensory cortices reflects inter-individual variability in time estimation. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 5. ISSN 1662-5145

Song, Chen, Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Samuel, Kanai, Ryota and Rees, Geraint (2011) Reciprocal anatomical relationship between primary sensory and prefrontal cortices in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 31 (26). pp. 9472-9480. ISSN 0270-6474

Paffen, Chris L E, Plukaard, Sarah and Kanai, Ryota (2011) Symbolic magnitude modulates perceptual strength in binocular rivalry. Cognition, 119 (3). pp. 468-475. ISSN 1873-7838

Kanai, Ryota, Dong, Mia Yuan, Bahrami, Bahador and Rees, Geraint (2011) Distractibility in daily life is reflected in the structure and function of human parietal cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31 (18). pp. 6620-6626. ISSN 0270-6474

Kanai, Ryota, Feilden, Tom, Firth, Colin and Rees, Geraint (2011) Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults. Current Biology, 21 (8). pp. 677-680. ISSN 09609822

Kanai, Ryota and Rees, Geraint (2011) The structural basis of inter-individual differences in human behaviour and cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 12 (4). pp. 231-242. ISSN 1471-003X

Kanai, Ryota, Lloyd, Harriet, Bueti, Domenica and Walsh, Vincent (2011) Modality-independent role of the primary auditory cortex in time estimation. Experimental Brain Research, 209 (3). pp. 465-471. ISSN 0014-4819

Kanai, Ryota, Carmel, David, Bahrami, Bahador and Rees, Geraint (2011) Structural and functional fractionation of right superior parietal cortex in bistable perception. Current Biology, 21 (3). R106-R107. ISSN 0960-9822

Feurra, Matteo, Paulus, Walter, Walsh, Vincent and Kanai, Ryota (2011) Frequency specific modulation of human somatosensory cortex. Frontiers in Psychology, 2. p. 13. ISSN 1664-1078

Carlson, Thomas A, Hogendoorn, Hinze, Kanai, Ryota, Mesik, Juraj and Turret, Jeremy (2011) High temporal resolution decoding of object position and category. Journal of Vision, 11 (9). pp. 1-17. ISSN 1534-7362

Kanai, Ryota, Walsh, Vincent and Tseng, Chia-huei (2010) Subjective discriminability of invisibility: a framework for distinguishing perceptual and attentional failures of awareness. Consciousness and Cognition, 19 (4). pp. 1045-1057. ISSN 1053-8100

Cohen Kadosh, Roi, Soskic, Sonja, Iuculano, Teresa, Kanai, Ryota and Walsh, Vincent (2010) Modulating neuronal activity produces specific and long-lasting changes in numerical competence. Current Biology, 20 (22). pp. 2016-2020. ISSN 0960-9822

Kanai, Ryota, Bahrami, Bahador and Rees, Geraint (2010) Human parietal cortex structure predicts individual differences in perceptual rivalry. Current Biology, 20 (18). pp. 1626-1630. ISSN 0960-9822

Brascamp, Jan W, Kanai, Ryota, Walsh, Vincent and van Ee, Raymond (2010) Human middle temporal cortex, perceptual bias, and perceptual memory for ambiguous three-dimensional motion. Journal of Neuroscience, 30 (2). pp. 760-766. ISSN 0270-6474

Kanai, Ryota, Carlson, Thomas A, Verstraten, Frans A J and Walsh, Vincent (2009) Perceived timing of new objects and feature changes. Journal of Vision, 9 (7). p. 5. ISSN 1534-7362

Kanai, Ryota, Chaieb, Leila, Antal, Andrea, Walsh, Vincent and Paulus, Walter (2008) Frequency-dependent electrical stimulation of the visual cortex. Current Biology, 18 (23). pp. 1839-1843. ISSN 0960-9822

Kanai, Ryota, Muggleton, Neil G and Walsh, Vincent (2008) TMS over the intraparietal sulcus induces perceptual fading. Journal of Neurophysiology, 100 (6). pp. 3343-3350. ISSN 0022-3077

Nijboer, Tanja C W, Kanai, Ryota, de Haan, Edward H F and van der Smagt, Maarten J (2008) Recognising the forest, but not the trees: an effect of colour on scene perception and recognition. Consciousness and Cognition, 17 (3). pp. 741-752. ISSN 1053-8100

Changizi, Mark A, Hsieh, Andrew, Nijhawan, Romi, Kanai, Ryota and Shimojo, Shinsuke (2008) Perceiving the present and a systematization of illusions. Cognitive Science, 32 (3). pp. 459-503. ISSN 03640213

Brascamp, Jan W, Knapen, Tomas H J, Kanai, Ryota, Noest, André J, van Ee, Raymond and van den Berg, Albert V (2008) Multi-timescale perceptual history resolves visual ambiguity. PLoS ONE, 3 (1). e1497. ISSN 1932-6203

Knapen, Tomas, Kanai, Ryota, Brascamp, Jan, van Boxtel, Jeroen and van Ee, Raymond (2007) Distance in feature space determines exclusivity in visual rivalry. Vision Research, 47 (26). pp. 3269-75. ISSN 0042-6989

Kanai, Ryota, Knapen, Tomas H J, van Ee, Raymond and Verstraten, Frans A J (2007) Disruption of implicit perceptual memory by intervening neutral stimuli. Vision Research, 47 (20). pp. 2675-2683. ISSN 0042-6989

Nieuwenstein, Mark R, Johnson, Addie, Kanai, Ryota and Martens, Sander (2007) Cross-task repetition amnesia: impaired recall of RSVP targets held in memory for a secondary task. Acta Psychologica, 125 (3). pp. 319-333. ISSN 0001-6918

Knapen, Tomas, Paffen, Chris, Kanai, Ryota and van Ee, Raymond (2007) Stimulus flicker alters interocular grouping during binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 47 (1). pp. 1-7. ISSN 0042-6989

Kanai, Ryota, Sheth, Bhavin R, Verstraten, Frans A J and Shimojo, Shinsuke (2007) Dynamic perceptual changes in audiovisual simultaneity. PLoS ONE, 2 (12). e1253. ISSN 1932-6203

Brascamp, Jan W, Knapen, Tomas H J, Kanai, Ryota, van Ee, Raymond and van den Berg, Albert V (2007) Flash suppression and flash facilitation in binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 7 (12). 12.1-12. ISSN 1534-7362

Kanai, Ryota, Paffen, Chris L E, Hogendoorn, Hinze and Verstraten, Frans A J (2006) Time dilation in dynamic visual display. Journal of Vision, 6 (12). pp. 1421-1430. ISSN 1534-7362

Kanai, Ryota, Tsuchiya, Naotsugu and Verstraten, Frans A J (2006) The scope and limits of top-down attention in unconscious visual processing. Current Biology, 16 (23). pp. 2332-2336. ISSN 0960-9822

Brouwer, Anne-Marie, Vuong, Quoc C and Kanai, Ryota (2006) Planning and online control of goal directed movements when the eyes are 'relocated'. Experimental Brain Research, 175 (3). pp. 499-513. ISSN 0014-4819

Kanai, Ryota and Watanabe, Masataka (2006) Visual onset expands subjective time. Perception & Psychophysics, 68 (7). pp. 1113-1123. ISSN 0031-5117

Sheth, Bhavin R, Kanai, Ryota and Shimojo, Shinsuke (2006) Dynamical evolution of motion perception. Vision Research, 47 (7). pp. 937-945. ISSN 0042-6989

Kanai, Ryota and Verstraten, Frans A J (2006) Attentional modulation of perceptual stabilization. Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 273 (1591). pp. 1217-1222. ISSN 0962-8452

Kanai, Ryota, Wu, Daw-An, Verstraten, Frans A J and Shimojo, Shinsuke (2006) Discrete color filling beyond luminance gaps along perceptual surfaces. Journal of Vision, 6 (12). pp. 1380-1395. ISSN 1534-7362

Kanai, Ryota and Verstraten, Frans A J (2006) Visual transients reveal the veridical position of a moving object. Perception, 35 (4). pp. 453-460. ISSN 0301-0066

Kanai, Ryota and Verstraten, Frans A J (2005) Perceptual manifestations of fast neural plasticity: motion priming, rapid motion aftereffect and perceptual sensitization. Vision Research, 45 (25-26). pp. 3109-3116. ISSN 0042-6989

Kanai, Ryota, Moradi, Farshad, Shimojo, Shinsuke and Verstraten, Frans A J (2005) Perceptual alternation induced by visual transients. Perception, 34 (7). pp. 803-822. ISSN 0301-0066

Maeda, Fumiko, Kanai, Ryota and Shimojo, Shinsuke (2004) Changing pitch induced visual motion illusion. Current Biology, 14 (23). R990-R991. ISSN 0960-9822

Kanai, Ryota and Verstraten, Frans A J (2004) Visual transients without feature changes are sufficient for the percept of a change. Vision Research, 44 (19). pp. 2233-2240. ISSN 0042-6989

Paffen, Chris L E, te Pas, Susan F, Kanai, Ryota, van der Smagt, Maarten J and Verstraten, Frans A J (2004) Center-surround interactions in visual motion processing during binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 44 (14). pp. 1635-1639. ISSN 0042-6989

Wu, Daw-An, Kanai, Ryota and Shimojo, Shinsuke (2004) Vision: steady-state misbinding of colour and motion. Nature, 429 (6989). p. 262. ISSN 1476-4687

Kanai, Ryota, Paffen, Chris L E, Gerbino, Walter and Verstraten, Frans A J (2004) Blindness to inconsistent local signals in motion transparency from oscillating dots. Vision Research, 44 (19). pp. 2207-2212. ISSN 0042-6989

Kanai, Ryota, Sheth, Bhavin R and Shimojo, Shinsuke (2004) Stopping the motion and sleuthing the flash-lag effect: spatial uncertainty is the key to perceptual mislocalization. Vision Research, 44 (22). pp. 2605-2619. ISSN 0042-6989

Kanai, Ryota and Kamitani, Yukiyasu (2003) Time-locked perceptual fading induced by visual transients. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15 (5). pp. 664-672. ISSN 0898-929X

Van Der Steen, Johannes and Kanai, Ryota (2002) Binocular eye movement responses to dichoptically presented horizontal and/or vertical stimulus steps. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 956. pp. 487-491. ISSN 0077-8923

Iwashita, M, Kanai, R, Funabiki, K, Matsuda, K and Hirano, T (2001) Dynamic properties, interactions and adaptive modifications of vestibulo-ocular reflex and optokinetic response in mice. Neuroscience Research, 39 (3). pp. 299-311. ISSN 0168-0102

Book Section

Sherman, Maxine, Barrett, Adam and Kanai, Ryota (2015) Inferences about consciousness using subjective reports of confidence. In: Overgaard, Morten (ed.) Behavioral Methods in Consciousness Research. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199688890