Kohei Asano | Research Fellow | Cognitive Neuroscience
Even when we see the same thing, it doesn’t mean that we perceive it the same way. As an elementary school teacher, I worked with students who had various personalities, which inspired my interest in individual differences in perception. I research the cognition of human vision, using images of brain function and brain structure. My current research focuses on developmental dyslexia and the brain mechanism that might cause reading disability.
B.A., Education, Fukushima University, 1984
Teacher, Fukushima Public Elementary Schools, 1984-2010
M.A., Science Education, Graduate School of Education, Fukushima University, 1998
Ph.D., Medical Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 2013
Support for Educational Research, Institute of Development, Aging, and Cancer, Tohoku University, 2013
Special Researcher, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, 2014
Program-Specific Research Fellow, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, 2015-2020
Researcher, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, 2020
Professor, Osaka University of Comprehensive Children Education, 2020
Kohei Asano (2019)
fMRI studies of developmental dyslexia.
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 270 (9), pp.829-834
Nakatani-Enomoto S, Yamazaki M, Kamimura Y, Abe M, Asano K, Enomoto H, Wake K, Watanabe S, Ugawa Y (2019)
Frequency-dependent current perception threshold in healthy Japanese adults.
Bioelectromagnetics 40 (3) 150 - 159
Kobayashi S, Asano K, Matsuda N, Ugawa Y (2019)
Dopaminergic influences on risk preferences of Parkinson's disease patients.
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience 19(1) 88 - 97
Wiratman W, Kobayashi S, Chang FY, Asano K, Ugawa Y (2019)
Assessment of Cognitive and Motor Skills in Parkinson's Disease by a Robotic Object Hitting Game.
Frontiers in neurology 10 19
Takeuchi H, Taki Y, Asano K, Asano M, Sassa Y, Yokota S, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Kawashima R (2018)
Impact of frequency of internet use on development of brain structures and verbal Hikaru
intelligence: Longitudinal analyses.
Human brain mapping 39(11) 4471 - 4479
Suzuki M, Kawagoe T, Nishiguchi S, Abe N, Otsuka Y, Nakai R, Asano K, Yamada M, Yoshikawa S, Sekiyama K (2018)
Neural Correlates of Working Memory Maintenance in Advanced Aging: Evidence From fMRI.
Frontiers in aging neuroscience 10 358
H. Takeuchi, Y. Taki, H. Hashizume, K. Asano, M. Asano, Y. Sassa, S. Yokota, Y. Kotozaki, R. Nouchi, R. Kawashima (2016)
Impact of videogame play on the brain's microstructural properties: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY 21(12) 1781 - 1789
Takeuchi H, Taki Y, Hashizume H, Asano K, Asano M, Sassa Y, Yokota S, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Kawashima R (2016)
Impact of reading habit on white matter structure: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.
NeuroImage 133 378 - 389
Matsudaira I, Yokota S, Hashimoto T, Takeuchi H, Asano K, Asano M, Sassa Y, Taki Y, Kawashima R (2016)
Parental Praise Correlates with Posterior Insular Cortex Gray Matter Volume in Children and Adolescents
PLOS ONE 11(4) e0154220
Kohei Asano (2015)
Functional brain images of developmental dyslexia
Clinical Neuroscience Vol.33(8) pp.950-953 Chugai-Igakusha
Yokota S, Takeuchi H, Hashimoto T, Hashizume H, Asano K, Asano M, Sassa Y, Taki Y, Kawashima R (2015)
Individual differences in cognitive performance and brain structure in typically developing children.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 14 1-7
Takeuchi H, Taki Y, Hashizume H, Asano K, Asano M, Sassa Y, Yokota S, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Kawashima R (2015)
The impact of television viewing on brain structures: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.
Cerebral Cortex 25(5) 1188 - 97
Takeuchi H, Taki Y, Hashizume H, Asano K, Asano M, Sassa Y, Yokota S, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Kawashima R (2015)
The impact of parent-child interaction on brain structures: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.
The Journal of Neuroscience 35(5) 2233 - 2245
Hashimoto T, Takeuchi H, Taki Y, Yokota S, Hashizume H, Asano K, Asano M, Sassa Y, Nouchi R, Kawashima R (2015)
Increased posterior hippocampal volumes in children with lower increase in body mass index: a 3-year longitudinal MRI study.
Developmental Neuroscience 37(2) 153 - 160
Asano M, Taki Y, Hashizume H, Takeuchi H, Thyreau B, Sassa Y, Kawashima R (2014)
Correlations between brain structures and study time at home in healthy children: a longitudinal analysis
Brain and Behavior 4(6) 801 - 811
Hashizume H, Taki Y, Sassa Y, Thyreau B, Asano M, Asano K, Takeuchi H, Nouchi R, Kotozaki Y, Jeong H, Sugiura M, Kawashima R (2014)
Developmental changes in brain activation involved in the production of novel speech sounds in children.
Human Brain Mapping 35(8) 4079 - 89
Asano K, Taki Y, Hashizume H, Sassa Y, Thyreau B, Asano M, Takeuchi H, Kawashima R (2014)
Healthy children show gender differences in correlations between nonverbal cognitive ability and brain activation during visual perception
Neuroscience Letters 577 66 - 71
Taki Y, Thyreau B, Hashizume H, Sassa Y, Hakeuchi H, Wu K, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Asano M, Asano K, Fukuda H, Kawashima R (2013)
Linear and curvilinear correlations of brain white matter volume, fractional anisotropy, and mean diffusivity with age using voxel-based and region-of-interest analyses in 246 healthy children.
Human Brain Mapping 34 (8) 1842 - 56
Taki Y, Hashizume H, Thyreau B, Sassa Y, Takeuchi H, Wu K, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Asano M, Asano K, Fukuda H, Kawashima R (2013)
Linear and curvilinear correlations of brain gray matter volume and density with age using voxel-based morphometry with the Akaike information criterion in 291 healthy children.
Human Brain Mapping 34 (8) 1857 - 71
Sassa Y, Taki Y, Takeuchi H, Hashizume H, Asano M, Asano K, Wakabayashi A, Kawashima R (2012)
The correlation between brain gray matter volume and empathizing and systemizing quotients in healthy children.
NeuroImage 60 (4) 2035 - 2041
Taki Y, Hashizume H, Thyreau B, Sassa Y, Takeuchi H, Wu K, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Asano M, Asano K, Fukuda H, Kawashima R (2012)
Sleep duration during weekdays affects hippocampal gray matter volume in healthy children.
NeuroImage 60 (1) 471 - 5
Taki Y, Hashizume H, Sassa Y, Takeuchi H, Asano M, Asano K, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Wu K, Fukuda H, Kawashima R (2012)
Correlation among body height, intelligence, and brain gray matter volume in healthy children.
NeuroImage 59 (2) 1023 – 1027
Taki Y, Hashizume H, Sassa Y, Takeuchi H, Wu K, Asano M, Asano K, Fukuda H, Kawashima R (2011)
Correlation Between Gray Matter Density-Adjusted Brain Perfusion and Age Using Brain MR Images of 202 Healthy Children
Human Brain Mapping 32(11) 1973 - 1985
Taki Y, Hashizume H, Sassa Y, Takeuchi H, Wu K, Asano M, Asano K, Fukuda H, Kawashima R (2011)
Gender differences in partial-volume corrected brain perfusion using brain MRI in healthy children
NeuroImage 58(3) 709 - 715
Taki Y, Hashizume H, Thyreau B, Sassa Y, Takeuchi Y, Asano M, Asano K, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Wu K, Fukuda H, Kawashima R (2010)
Breakfast staple types affect brain gray matter volume and cognitive function in healthy children
PloS one 5(12) e15213
Hiroshi H, Taki Y, Sassa Y, Asano M, Asano K, Takeuchi H, Jeong H, Sugiura M, Kawashima R (2010)
Age-dependency in brain activation involved with imitation of unfamiliar foreign language sound: an fMRI study
Neuroscience Research 68 e300 - e301