Wataru SATO　Associate ProfessorAlumni
  • Period
    1st（Term: from Apr. 2010 to Mar. 2015）
    グローバル型
  • Research Interests
    Psychology
  • Research Topic
    The psychological mechanisms for social interaction via faces

Wataru began psychological research because he wanted to understand the mechanisms of the unconscious mind. Now he is studying the unconscious, emotional mind mechanisms that implement social interactions. Specifically, he is investigating the automatic resonant responses for others’ facial expressions and eye gaze. Wataru conducts psychological experiments to understand the processing of mental information, and performs neuroscientific experiments to reveal neuro-cognitive mechanisms. He also conducts the research on developmental disorders.

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2014.04.21 Publications
Wataru Sato (W. Sato*, T. Kochiyama*, S. Uono, K. Matsuda, K. Usui, Y. Inoue & M. Toichi [*equal contributors]) published “Rapid, high-frequency, and theta-coupled gamma oscillations in the inferior occipital gyrus during face processing” in Cortex
2013.05.09 Publications
“Atypical recognition of dynamic changes in facial expressions in autism spectrum disorders” published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
2013.05.01 Publications
“Rapid and multiple-stage activation of the human amygdala for processing facial signals” published in Communicative and Integrative Biology, 6, e24562
2013.02.28 Publications
“Relationships among facial mimicry, emotional experience, and emotion recognition.”, published in PLoS One
2012.10.17 Publications
“Impaired social brain network for processing dynamic facial expressions in autism spectrum disorders” is published from BMC Neuroscience.
2011.12.29 Publications
“Rapid amygdala gamma oscillations in response to eye gaze” (PLoS One)
2010.10.01 Publications
Impairment of unconscious, but not conscious, gaze-triggered attention orienting in Asperger’s disorder Res. Autism Spectr. Disord. 4, 782-786 (2010)