Yuka Sasaki Source Confirmed

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Professor

John Brown University

faculty

49 h-index 387 pubs 10,918 cited

Research Areas

Visual perception and processing mechanisms Neural dynamics and brain function Sleep and Wakefulness Research X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography Crystallization and Solubility Studies

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Dr. Yuka Sasaki is a Professor at John Brown University whose work encompasses visual perception, neural dynamics, and sleep research. She employs techniques such as decoded neurofeedback (DecNef) and fMRI to investigate brain function and processing mechanisms. Her research has demonstrated efficient learning through rapid GABA boosting in children, as well as explored plasticity-stability dynamics during post-training processing of learning. Additional work includes studies using decoded functional MRI neurofeedback to investigate visual perceptual learning. Sasaki's investigations extend to the study of sleep analysis using coregistration of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and polysomnography.

Metrics

  • h-index: 49
  • Publications: 387
  • Citations: 10,918

Selected Publications

  • Dissociating reward and arousal effects by EEG alpha power but not pupillary responses (2025) DOI
  • Trial-level pupillary response reveals that neural gain is robustly linked to perceptual plasticity and explains the role of feedback in learning (2025) DOI
  • Sleep is associated with reduction of excitatory signaling in medial prefrontal cortex (2025) DOI
  • Opposite polarities in alpha-band power in EEG were induced by reward and arousal: an initial discovery in the psychophysiological realm that distinctly dissociates reward from arousal (2024) DOI
  • EEG measures of consolidation of visual perceptual learning during wakefulness are distinct from consolidation during sleep (2024) DOI
  • Differential unconscious control of the medial prefrontal cortex during non-REM and REM sleep to mitigate anterograde and retrograde interferences in visual perceptual learning (2024) DOI
  • 0365 Failure to Reduce Glutamate Levels in Medial Prefrontal Cortex During NREM Sleep Could Cause Transient Insomnia (2024) DOI
  • The medial prefrontal cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex play complementary roles in facilitating visual perceptual learning during sleep (2023) DOI
  • Masking that disrupts late phases of visual processing eliminates location specificity of visual perceptual learning (2023) DOI
  • Visual perceptual learning of natural and Portilla & Simoncelli images occurs in a significantly different manner than visual perceptual learning of unnatural images (2023) DOI
  • Substantial changes in global brain processing related to face perception in body dysmorphic disorder patients by training on low spatial frequency components in faces (2021) DOI
  • Mechanisms that stabilize visual perceptual learning differ in children and adults: Evidence from psychophysics and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (2021) DOI

Collaborators

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Takeo Watanabe John Brown University 37 shared publications Takashi Yamada John Brown University 12 shared publications Yusuke Nakashima John Brown University 6 shared publications Aaron Cochrane John Brown University 5 shared publications Shazain Khan John Brown University 4 shared publications David L. Sheinberg John Brown University 3 shared publications Luke Rosedahl John Brown University 3 shared publications Hana Berhe John Brown University 3 shared publications

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