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  1. Nabata R., Niida M., Takahashi K., Ogawa K. (2026) Common neural representation between visual perception and imagery in eidetikers, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.18.705196
  2. Imai F., Shinozaki J., Saito H., Nagahama H., Sakurai Y., & Ogawa K. (2025) The common neural representation in the primary motor area between motor execution and kinesthetic motor imagery, bioRxiv, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664262v1 → ☑️published: https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1141
  3. Ogawa K., Yang Y., Yang H., Imai F., & Imamizu H. (2024) Human sensorimotor cortex reactivates recent visuomotor experience during awake rest, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.26.595974 → ☑️published: https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0134-25.2025
  4. Haruki Y., Kaneko K., & Ogawa K. (2024) No gender difference in cardiac interoceptive accuracy: potential psychophysiological contributors in heartbeat counting task, PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/syt8j → ☑️published: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02432-6
  5. Niida M., Haruki Y., Imai F., & Ogawa K. (2023) Neural substrates of top-down processing during perceptual duration-based timing and beat-based timing, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.06.543032 → ☑️published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06665-y
  6. Yamagata T., Ichikawa K., Mizutori S., Haruki Y., & Ogawa K. (2023) Are people less susceptible to the illusory sense of ownership over a fake hand if they can accurately perceive heartbeats?, PsyArXiv, doi: 10.31234/osf.io/rey4p → ☑️published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43990-2
  7. Haruki Y. & Ogawa K. (2022) Cardiac and gastric interoception have distinct neural substrates, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.18.480981 → ☑️published: https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0157-22.2023
  8. Sonobe Y*., Yamagata T*., Yang H., Haruki Y., & Ogawa K. (2022) Supramodal representation of the sense of body ownership in the human parieto-premotor and extrastriate cortices, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.28.502233 (*Equal contribution) → ☑️published: https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0332-22.2023
  9. Ogawa K. & Matsuyama Y. (2022) Heterogeneity of social cognition in temporo-parietal junction: Overlapping yet distinct representation between visual perspective-taking and theory of mind, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.04.474884 → ☑️published: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137267
  10. Haruki Y. & Ogawa K. (2021) Disrupted interoception by auditory distractor: Difficulty inferring the internal bodily states?, PsyArXiv, doi: 10.31234/osf.io/2t754 → ☑️published: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2023.11.002
  11. Ohata R., Ogawa K., & Imamizu H. (2021) Neural basis for adaptive motor behavior during car driving, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.03.462866 → ☑️published: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.788729

Refereed Papers

  1. Shibata H., Takahashi K., Niida M., & Ogawa K. (2026) Role of the left intraparietal sulcus in the comprehension of action intensity described in sentences, Imaging Neuroscience, (in press)
  2. Imai F., Shinozaki J., Saito H., Nagahama H., Sakurai Y., & Ogawa K. (2026) Shared neural representation between motor execution and kinesthetic imagery in the primary motor cortex, Imaging Neuroscience, IMAG.a.1141. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1141
  3. Haruki Y., Yang Y., Suzuki K., Imamizu H., & Ogawa K. (2025) Real-time fMRI neurofeedback boosts heartbeat perception by modulating insula activation pattern during interoceptive attention, Imaging Neuroscience, IMAG.a.142. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.142
  4. Ogawa K., Yang Y., Yang H., Imai F., & Imamizu H. (2025) Human Sensorimotor Cortex Reactivates Recent Visuomotor Experience during Awake Rest, eNeuro, 12(4):ENEURO.0134-25.2025. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0134-25.2025
  5. Haruki Y., Miyahara K., Ogawa K., & Suzuki K. (2025) Attentional bias towards smartphone stimuli is associated with decreased interoceptive awareness and increased physiological reactivity. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 42, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00225-6
  6. Haruki Y., Kaneko K. & Ogawa K. (2025) No gender difference in cardiac interoceptive accuracy: Potential psychophysiological contributors in heartbeat counting task, BMC Psychology, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02432-6
  7. Kambara, K., …, Ogawa, K. (47th author among 76 authors), … (2024) Can Online Interactions Reduce Loneliness in Young Adults During University Closures in Japan? The Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGS) Approach, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12658
  8. Shibata H. & Ogawa K. (2024) Role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in transforming format types of action descriptions between stimuli and representations, Journal of Neurolinguistics, 71, 101191, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101191
  9. Haruki Y. & Ogawa K. (2023) Disrupted interoception by auditory distractor: Difficulty inferring the internal bodily states?, Neuroscience Research, 202, 30-38, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2023.11.002
  10. Yamagata T., Ichikawa K., Mizutori S., Haruki Y., & Ogawa K. (2023) Revisiting the relationship between illusory hand ownership induced by visuotactile synchrony and cardiac interoceptive accuracy, Scientific Reports, 13, 17132, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43990-2
  11. Niida M., Haruki Y., Imai F., & Ogawa K. (2023) Neural substrates of top-down processing during perceptual duration-based timing and beat-based timing, Experimental Brain Research, 241, 2133–2143, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06665-y
  12. Ogawa K. & Matsuyama Y. (2023) Heterogeneity of social cognition between visual perspective-taking and theory of mind in the temporo-parietal junction, Neuroscience Letters, 807, 137267, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137267
  13. Sonobe Y*., Yamagata T*., Yang H., Haruki Y., & Ogawa K. (2023) Supramodal representation of the sense of body ownership in the human parieto-premotor and extrastriate cortices, eNeuro, ENEURO.0332-22.2023, https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0332-22.2023 (*Equal contribution)
  14. Haruki Y. & Ogawa K. (2023) Cardiac and gastric interoceptive awareness have distinct neural substrates, eNeuro, ENEURO.0157-22.2023, https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0157-22.2023
  15. Yang Y., Yang H., Imai F., & Ogawa K. (2023) Distinct neural representations of hand movement direction between motor imagery and execution in the presupplementary motor area, Neuroscience Research, 191, 57-65, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2023.01.001
  16. Yang H. & Ogawa K. (2022) Decoding of motor imagery involving whole-body coordination, Neuroscience, 501(1), 131-142, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2022.07.029
  17. Ohata R., Ogawa K., & Imamizu H. (2022) Neuroimaging examination of driving mode switching corresponding to changes in the driving environment, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16:788729, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.788729
  18. Haruki Y. & Ogawa K. (2021) Role of anatomical insular subdivisions in interoception: interoceptive attention and accuracy have dissociable substrates, European Journal of Neuroscience, 53(8):2669-2680. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15157
  19. Yang H., Hu Z., Imai F., Yang Y., & Ogawa K. (2021) Effects of neurofeedback on the activities of motor-related areas by using motor execution and imagery, Neuroscience Letters, 746:135653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2021.135653
  20. Ohata R., Asai T., Kadota H., Shigemasu H., Ogawa K., & Imamizu H. (2020) Sense of agency beyond sensorimotor process: Decoding self-other action attribution in the human brain, Cerebral Cortex, 30(7), 4076–4091. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa028
  21. Iwabuchi T., Ohba M., Ogawa K., & Inui T. (2020) Incongruence of grammatical subjects activates brain regions involved in perspective taking in a sentence-sentence verification task, Journal of Neurolinguistics, 55, 100893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100893
  22. Hu Z., Yang H., Yang Y., Nishida S., Madden C., Ventre-Dominey J., Dominey PF., & Ogawa K. (2019) Common neural system for sentence and picture comprehension across languages: a Chinese–Japanese bilingual study, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13:380. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00380
  23. Ogawa K., Mitsui K., Imai F., & Nishida S. (2019) Long-term training-dependent representation of individual finger movements in the primary motor cortex, Neuroimage, 202:116051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116051
  24. Shibata H. & Ogawa K. (2018) Dorsal premotor cortex is related to recognition of verbal and visual descriptions of actions in the first-person perspective, Neuroscience Letters, 687(20), 71-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2018.09.025
  25. Cai C., Ogawa K., Kochiyama T., Tanaka H., & Imamizu H. (2018) Temporal recalibration of motor and visual potentials in lag adaptation in voluntary movement, Neuroimage, 172, 654–662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.015
  26. Mealier AL., Pointeau G., Mirliaz S., Ogawa K., Finlayson M., & Dominey PF. (2017) Narrative constructions for the organization of self experience: proof of concept via embodied robotics, Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1331. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01331
  27. Nabata R., & Ogawa K. (2017) Do eidetikers have higher visuo-spatial memory abilities? (in Japanese) , The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 88(3), 260-266. https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.88.16315
  28. Ogawa K., & Imai F. (2016) Hand-independent representation of tool-use pantomimes in the left anterior intraparietal cortex, Experimental Brain Research, 234(12), 3677-3687. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-016-4765-7
  29. Ohata R., Ogawa K., & Imamizu H. (2016) Single-trial prediction of reaction time variability from MEG brain activity, Scientific Reports, 6, 27416. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep27416
  30. Murata A., Saito H., Schug J., Ogawa K., & Kameda T. (2016) Spontaneous facial mimicry is enhanced by the goal of inferring emotional states: evidence for moderation of “automatic” mimicry by higher cognitive processes. PLoS ONE, 11(4), e0153128. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153128
  31. Kim S*., Ogawa K.*, Lv J., Schweighofer N., & Imamizu H. (2015) Neural substrates related to motor memory with multiple timescales in sensorimotor adaptation, PLoS Biology, 13(12): e1002312. (*Equal contribution) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002312 [Press release]
  32. Ogawa K. & Imamizu H. (2013) Human sensorimotor cortex represents conflicting visuomotor mappings. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(15), 6412-6422. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4661-12.2013
  33. Shibata H., Inui T., & Ogawa K. (2013) Role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in understanding hand actions performed in social contexts: An fMRI study. Neuroreport, 24(14), 803-807. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e3283646287
  34. Iwabuchi T., Inui T., Ohba M., & Ogawa K. (2013) An fMRI study of a picture-sentence verification task: evidence of attention shift to the grammatical subject. Neuroreport, 24(6), 298-302. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e32835f8826
  35. Ogawa K. & Inui T. (2012) Multiple neural representations of object-directed action in an imitative context. Experimental Brain Research, 216(1), 61-69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2908-4
  36. Ogawa K. & Inui T. (2012) Reference frame of human medial intraparietal cortex in visually guided movements. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(1), 171-182. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00132
  37. Shibata H., Inui T. & Ogawa K. (2011) Understanding interpersonal action coordination: An fMRI study. Experimental Brain Research, 211(3-4), 569-579. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2648-5
  38. Ogawa K. & Inui T. (2011) Neural representation of observed actions in the parietal and premotor cortex. Neuroimage, 56(2), 728-735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.043
  39. Ogawa K. & Inui T. (2009) The role of the posterior parietal cortex in drawing by copying. Neuropsychologia, 47(4), 1013-1022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.10.022
  40. Ogawa K., Inui T. & Ohba M. (2008) Syntactic processing of complex sentences in left lateral premotor cortex. Neuroreport, 19(8), 811-815. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e3282ffda89
  41. Ogawa K. & Inui T. (2007) Lateralization of posterior parietal cortex for internal monitoring of self- versus externally generated movements. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(11), 1827-1835. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.11.1827
  42. Ogawa K., Ohba M. & Inui T. (2007) Neural basis of syntactic processing of simple sentences in Japanese. Neuroreport, 18(14), 1437-1441. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e3282e9a87c
  43. Ogawa K., Inui T., & Sugio T. (2007) Neural correlates of state estimation in visually guided movements: an event-related fMRI study. Cortex, 43(3), 289-300. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70455-6
  44. Inui T., Ogawa K., & Ohba M. (2007) Role of left inferior frontal gyrus in the processing of particles in Japanese. Neuroreport, 18(5), 431-434. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e32805dfb7e
  45. Ogawa K., Inui T., & Sugio T. (2006) Separating brain regions involved in internally guided and visual feedback control of moving effectors: an event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage, 32(4), 1760-1770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.05.012
  46. Sugio T., Ogawa K., & Inui T. (2003) Neural correlates of semantic effects on grasping familiar objects. Neuroreport, 14(18), 2297-2301. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200312190-00002

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