Areas of Focus
- Visual Perception and Decision-Making
- Neural Mechanisms of Object Recognition
Work Experience
- 2015-2021 - Postdoctoral Researcher: New York University, USA
- 2021-Present - Research Group Leader: Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2008 - Bachelor's Degree: Kyoto University, Japan
- 2013 - PhD: SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Japan
Publications
- Spatiotemporal evidence accumulation through saccadic sampling for object recognition, Zheng Z, Hu J, Okazawa G., 2024
- Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory, Ogasa, K., Yokoi, A., Okazawa G., Nishigaki, M., Hirashima, M., Hagura, N., 2024
- Limitation of switching sensory information flow in flexible perceptual decision making, Luo, T., Xu, M., Zheng, Z., Okazawa G., 2023
- Neural Mechanisms that Make Perceptual Decisions Flexible, Okazawa G, Kiani R., 2022
- Linear integration of sensory evidence over space and time underlies face categorization, Okazawa G, Sha L, Kiani R., 2021
- Representational geometry of perceptual decisions in the monkey parietal cortex, Okazawa G, Hatch CE, Mancoo A, Machens CK, Kiani R., 2021
- Designing and Interpreting Psychophysical Investigations of Cognition, Waskom ML, Okazawa G, Kiani R., 2019
- Psychophysical reverse correlation reflects both sensory and decision-making processes, Okazawa G, Sha L, Purcell BA, Kiani R., 2018
- Gradual development of visual texture-selective properties between macaque areas V2 and V4, Okazawa G, Tajima S, Komatsu H., 2016
- Image statistics underlying natural texture selectivity of neurons in macaque V4, Okazawa G, Tajima S, Komatsu H., 2015
- Effects of luminance contrast on the color selectivity of neurons in the macaque area v4 and inferior temporal cortex, Namima T, Yasuda M, Banno T, Okazawa G, Komatsu H., 2014
- Representation of the material properties of objects in the visual cortex of nonhuman primates, Goda N, Tachibana A, Okazawa G, Komatsu H., 2014
- Color vision test for dichromatic and trichromatic macaque monkeys, Koida K, Yokoi I, Okazawa G, Mikami A, Widayati KA, Miyachi S, Komatsu H., 2013
- Short-term memory of the amplitude of body rotation in orienting behavior of African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), Okazawa G, Funahashi S., 2013
- Image statistics for golden appearance of a painting by a Japanese edo-era artist Jakuchu Ito, Okazawa G, Komatsu H., 2013
- ‘Yellow’ or ‘Gold’: Neural Processing of Gloss Information, Komatsu H, Nishio A, Okazawa G, Goda N., 2013
- Selective responses to specular surfaces in the macaque visual cortex revealed by fMRI, Okazawa G, Goda N, Komatsu H., 2012
- Categorical properties of the color term 'GOLD', Okazawa G, Koida K, Komatsu H., 2011