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Hama Watanabe
since Oct. 12, 2004

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• Update: Selected publications [Jul. 10, 2013]

Hama Watanabe, Ph.D.

Department of Physical and Health Education,
Graduate School of Education,
University of Tokyo

• Behavioral mechanism and brain function of young infants.
• Basic cognitive mechanism, with an emphasis on memory processes, and developmental changes across the life span.
• Relationship between human cognitive mechanisms and environments.

• 2002 Ph.D., Unit of Behavior and Infomation Processing, Graduate School of Human Infomatics, Nagoya University.

• 2001-2003 Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [Nagoya University]
• 2003-2008 Research Fellow of Japan Science and Technology Agency (CREST) [University of Tokyo, Japan]
• 2008-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [Uppsala University, Sweden]
• 2009-present Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo

• Imai, M., Watanabe, H., Yasui, K., Kimura, Y., Shitara, Y., Tsuchida, S., Takahashi, N., & Taga, G. (in press) Functional connectivity of the cortex of term and preterm infants and infants with Down’s syndrome. Neuroimage.
• Kanemaru, N., Watanabe, H., Kihara, H., Nakano, H., Takaya, R., Namkamura, T., Nakano, J., Taga, G., & Konishi, Y. (2013) Specific characteristics of spontaneous movements in preterm infants at term age are associated with developmental delays at age 3 years. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 55, 713-721.
• Watanabe, H., Homae, F., Nakano, T., Tsuzuki, D., Enkhtur, L., Nemoto, K., Dan, I., & Taga, G. (2013). Effect of auditory input on activatins in infant diverse cortical regions during audiovisual processing. Human Brain Mapping, 34, 543-565.
• Kanemaru, N., Watanabe, H., & Taga, G. (2012) Increasing selectivity of interlimb coordination during spontaneous movements in 2- to 4-month old infants. Experimental Brain Research, 218, 49-61.
• Homae, F., Watanabe, H., Nakano, T., & Taga, G. (2012) Functional development in the infant brain for auditory pitch processing. Human Brain Mapping, 33, 596-608.
• Watanabe, H., Homae, F., & Taga, G. (2012). Activation and deactivation in response to visual stimulation in the occipital cortex of 6-month-old infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 54, 1-15.
• Watanabe, H., Forssman, L., Green, D., Bohlin, G., & von Hofsten, C. (2012). Attention demands influence 10- and 12-monthold infants' perseverative behavior. Developmental Psychology, 48, 46-55.
• Taga, G., Watanabe, H., & Homae, F. (2011) Spatiotemporal properties of cortical hemodynamic response to auditory stimuli in sleeping infants revealed by multi-channel NIRS. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 369, 4495-4511.
• Yabe, Y., Watanabe, H., & Taga, G. (2011) Treadmill experience alters treadmill effects on perceived visual motion. PLoS ONE, 6, e21642
• Homae, F., Watanabe, H., Nakano, T., & Taga, G. (2011) Large-scale networs underlying language acquisition in early infancy. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 93.
• Sasai, S., Homae, F., Watanabe, H., & Taga, G. (2011) Frequency-specific functional connectivity in the brain during resting state revealed by NIRS. Neuroimage, 56, 252-257.
• Watanabe, H., Homae, F., & Taga, G. (2011). Developmental emergence of self-referential and inhibition mechanisms of body movements underling felicitous behaviors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 37, 1157-1173.
• Watanabe, H. & Taga, G. (2011). Initial-state dependency of learning in young infants. Human Movement Science, 30, 125-142.
• Homae, F., Watanabe, H., Otobe, T., Nakano, T., Go, T., Konishi, Y., & Taga, G. (2010). Development of global cortical networks in early infancy. Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 4877-4882.
• Watanabe, H., Homae, F., & Taga, G. (2010). General to specific development of functional activation in the cerebral cortexes of 2- to 3-month-old infants. Neuroimage, 50, 1536-1544.
• Watanabe, H. & Taga, G. (2009). Flexibility in infant actions during arm- and leg-based learning in a mobile paradigm. Infant Behavior and Development, 32, 79-90.
• Nakano, T., Watanabe, H., Homae, F., & Taga, G. (2009). Prefrontal cortical involvement in young infants' analysis of novelty. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 455-463.
• Nakano, T., Homae, F., Watanabe, H., & Taga, G. (2008) Anticipatory cortical activation precedes auditory events in sleeping infants. PLoS ONE, 3, e3912, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003912.
• Watanabe, H., Homae, F., Nakano, T. & Taga, G. (2008). Functional activation in diverse regions of the developing brain of human infants. Neuroimage, 43, 346-357.
• Homae, F., Watanabe, H., Nakano, T., & Taga, G. (2007). The Prosodic processing in the developing brain. Neuroscience Research, 59, 29-39.
• Taga, G., Homae, F., & Watanabe, H. (2007). Effects of source-detector distance of near infrared spectroscopy on the measurement of the cortical hemodynamic response in infants. Neuroimage, 38, 452-460.
• Kushiro, K., Taga, G. & Watanabe, H. (2007). Frame of reerence for visual perception in young infants during change of body position. Experimental Brain Research, 183, 523-529.
• Homae, F., Watanabe, H., Nakano, T., & Taga, G. (2006). The right hemisphere of sleeping infant perceives sentential prosody. Neuroscience Research, 54, 276-280.
• Watanabe, H. & Taga, G. (2006). General to specific development of movement patterns and memory for contingency between action and events in young infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 29, 402-422.
• Watanabe, H. (2005). Semantic and episodic prediction: Planning process of memory for plans . Japanese Psychological Research, 47, 40-45.
• Watanabe, H. & Kawaguchi, J. (2005). Representation of plans: Activation in memory. Memory, 13, 174-188.
• Watanabe, H. & Kawaguchi, J. (2004). Is memory for plans unique?: The study using common noun stimuli. Psychological Reports, 95, 477-484.
• Watanabe, H. (2003). Effects of encoding style, expectation of retrieval mode, and retrieval style on memory for action phrases. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 96, 707-720.
• Watanabe, H., & Kawaguchi, J. (2002). Planning over the day span: Memory for the content of plans. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 443-450.

• Watanabe, H., & Taga, G. (2006). Stability and flexibility of motor learning and memory in young infants during a mobile task. XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (Kyoto, Jun., 2006).
• Watanabe, H., Taga, G., Homae, F., & Nakano, T. (2006). Functional imaging of the occipital and prefrontal cortex of 3-month-olds during visual perception. XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (Kyoto, Jun., 2006).
• Watanabe, H., Taga, G., & Homae, F. (2005). Cortical activation in prefrontal and occipital areas in 3-month-olds. ESF Research Conference on Brain Development and Cognition in Human Infants (Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, Oct, 2005).
• Watanabe, H. (2004). Infant motor patterns and cortical activation associated with event memory. 2nd International Workshop for Young Psychologists on Evolution and Development of Cognition (Kyoto, Nov., 2004).
• Watanabe, H., Taga, G., Kushiro, K., & Asakawa, K. (2004). Effects of previous motor experience on learning for relation between infant voluntary activity and change of environment during the conjugate reinforcement mobile task. 28th International Congress of Psychology (Beijing, Aug., 2004).
• Watanabe, H., Taga, G., Kushiro, K., & Asakawa, K. (2004). Infant motor patterns and memory function in the conjugate reinforcement mobile task. XIVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (Chicago, May, 2004).
• Watanabe, H., Taga, G. Kushiro, K. & Asakawa, K. (2003). Infant motor patterns in multi-mobile conjugate reinforcement task. 44th annual meeting of the psychonomic society (Vancouver, Nov., 2003).
• Watanabe, H., Kawaguchi, J., & Hatta, T. (2003). Memory function and meta-memory in healthy aged people. Joint meeting of the "Gesellschaft for Neuropsychologie" and the International Neuropsychological Society in Berlin (Berlin, Jul., 2003).

Developmental Brain Science Lab. (in Japanese)

Developmental Brain Science Lab.
Graduate School of Education
University of Tokyo