研究兴趣：
Yuji Naya博士主要研究大脑的记忆系统。陈述性（关联性）记忆是指形成对知识、事件和关系的新的长期记忆的能力，这种基本的认知功能让我们记住过去，并基于过去的经验做出适当的选择。阿尔茨海默症病人通常患有陈述性记忆障碍。由于陈述性记忆对日常生活至关重要，Yuji Naya博士致力于阐明我们的大脑如何执行这项非凡功能。为了探究这个问题，他在非人类的灵长类动物上使用行为和神经生理学方法，描述了当被试执行记忆任务时位于多个脑区的单个神经元或神经元群传递的信号。他的研究旨在描述负责陈述性记忆的“信息流”是如何在中颞叶记忆系统以及相关新皮质脑区（如感觉联合区、前额叶和顶叶）进行表征的。
英文论著
Naya Y. and Suzuki WA. (2011) Integrating what and when across the primate medial temporal lobe. Science 333: 773-776.
Suzuki WA. and Naya Y. (2011) Two Routes for remembering the Past, Cell, 147, 493-495.
Naya Y. and Suzuki W.A., (2010) Associative memory in the Medial Temporal lobe. In Primate Neuroethology, A. Ghazanfar and M. Platt ed. (New York: Oxford University Press), pp 337-358.
Fujimichi R., Naya Y., Koyano KW., Takeda M., Takeuchi D. and Miyashita Y. (2010) Unitized representation of paired objects in area 35 of the macaque perirhinal cortex. Eur. J. Neurosci.32: 659-667.
Matsui T., Koyano KW., Koyama M., Nakahara K., Takeda M., Ohashi Y., Naya Y., Miyashita Y. (2007) MRI-based localization of electrophysiological recording sites within the cerebral cortex at single-voxel accuracy. Nature Methods 4:161-168.
Takeda M., Naya Y., Fujimichi R., Takeuchi D. and Miyashita Y. (2005) Active maintenance of associative mnemonic signal in monkey inferior temporal cortex. Neuron 48: 839-848.
Fujimichi R., Naya Y., and Miyashita Y. (2004) Neural basis of semantic-like memory :representation, activation and cognitive control. In The Cognitive Neurosciences III, M.S Gazzaniga ed. (MIT Press), pp 905-918.
Naya Y., Yoshida M. and Miyashita Y. (2003) Forward processing of long-term associative memory in monkey inferotemporal cortex. J. Neurosci. 23: 2861-2871.
Yoshida M., Naya Y. and Miyashita Y. (2003) Anatomical organization of forward fiber projections from area TE to perirhinal neurons representing visual long-term memory in monkeys. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100:4257-4262.
Naya Y., Yoshida M., Takeda M., Fujimichi R. and Miyashita Y. (2003) Delay-period activities in two subdivisions of monkey inferotemporal cortex during pair association memory task. Eur. J. Neurosci. 18: 2915-2918.
Naya Y., Yoshida M. and Miyashita Y. (2001) Backward Spreading of Memory-Retrieval Signal in the Primate Temporal Cortex. Science 291:661-664.
Naya Y., Sakai K., and Miyashita Y. (1996) Activity of primate inferotemporal neurons related to a sought target in pair-association task. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93:2664-2669. |
