Preface

1. Higher Brain Function
Spatio-temporal analysis of activation in a visual oddball task
　　Del Gratta C, Mantini D, Marzetti L, Corbetta M, and Romani GL
Event-related fields in a common fate grouping tas
　　Jiuk Jung, and Tetsuo Kobayashi
Event-related synchronization/desynchronization of gamma band activity during
a visual go/nogo paradigm
　　Mutsumi Iijima, and Mikio Osawa
Brain Activations associated with Determination of Depth Order in Transparent
Motion Perception: An MEG study
　　Hiroaki Natsukawa, Jiuk Jung, and Tetsuo Kobayashi
Association of Event-related Potentials with Working Memory in the Presence of
Ambient Noises
　　Kazuo Kato, Kazunori Suzuki, Arimitsu Shikoda, Ken Sugawara, Atsuo Ishikawa,
　　and Tetsuo Kobayashi
Analysis of evoked response and induced response in alpha wave and gamma wave
during visual attention
　　Takahiro Matsunaga, Tetsuya Fukuta, Yoshinori Katayama and Keiji Iramina
Multisensory processing and gamma band activity in the unnaturalness and
cross-modal priming
　　Yusuke Yokota, Tetsuto Minami, and Shigeki Nakauchi
Suppressive phenomenon in the higher-order functional regions: An EEG study with
paired stimulus paradigm
　　Mingdi XU, Saki Fujiyama, and Keiji Iramina
　　
2. Language
Word Processing Related to Multi-sensory Stimulus Processing: First Results
　　W. Skrandies, S. H?rner, and A. Hiessl
Brain Imaging for SLA Research: An fMRI Study of L2 Learners' Different Levels
of Word Semantic Processing
　　Shin'ichiro Ishikawa, and Qiang Wei
Auditory perception of Japanese vowels or numbers under working memory task on MEG
　　Noriko Tsuru, Toshiaki Otsubo, Toshiro Fujimoto, Yasuhiro Haruta
Recognition of Fillers in Normal and Dementia Brains
　　Chie Yamane-Yoshinaga, Noriko Hatanaka, Hidenori Yoshida, Yasuyuki Ohta, and Koji Abe
Semantic Incongruency Activates Frontal and Parieto-temporal Cortices: an MEG Study
　　Kouichi Sutani, Sunao Iwaki
　　
3. EEG/MEG (Visual Function)
Single-Trial ERP Detection for Rapid Image Triage
　　Kaiquan Shen, Shiyun Shao, Ee Min Ho, Wu Chun Ng, Ke Yu, Kenneth Kwok,
　　Veerappa Gounder Boopathi, and Xiaoping Li
Quasi-stable phase synchrony in ongoing and evoked EEG activity
　　Andrey R. Nikolaev, Sergei Gepshtein, Pulin Gong, Junji Ito, and Cees van Leeuwen
Estimation of ambiguous states from a single-trial EEG recording
　　Yosuke Noritake, Tetsuto Minami, and Shigeki Nakauchi
Effect of Spatial/Temporal Cues and Different Target Size on Visual Spatial Attention
　　Jiajia Yang, and Jinglong Wu
Modulation of Extrastriate Visual Processing by Audio-visual Attention
　　Sunao Iwaki
The developmental change in the perception of dynamic facial emotion using ERPs
　　Kensaku Miki, Shoko Watanabe, Mika Teruya, Yasuyuki Takeshima, Tomokazu Urakawa,
　　Masahiro Hirai, Yukiko Honda, Ryusuke Kakigi
Non-arbitrary detection of the flicker fusion threshold with visual evoked magnetic field
　　Nobuyoshi Harada, Sunao Iwaki, and Mitsuo Tonoike
Steady-state visual evoked potentials for stereoscopic vision
　　Ichiro Shimoyama, Yasufumi Kasagi, Ryutaro Okamoto, Yumi Asano, Ken Nakazawa,
　　Suguru Shirato, Xiuqin Wei, and Hitoshi Shimada
Neuromagnetic responses related to the recognition of three-dimensional objects
　　Keita Tanaka, Masaki Kawakatsu, Yoshinori Uchikawa, and Gang Wang
　　
4. EEG/MEG (Auditory Function and Emotion)
Mechanisms of bone-conducted ultrasonic (BCU) perception assessed by EEG
and MEG measurements
　　Seiji Nakagawa
Stability for auditory steady-state responses
　　Ichiro Shimoyama, Ken Nakazawa, Yasufumi Kasagi, Koki Yamashita, and Xiuqin Wei
EEG/MEG exploration on human auditory temporal assimilation
　　T. Mitsudo, Y. Nakajima, G. B. Remijn, A. Nagaike, Y. Goto, and S. Tobimatsu
Spatial Brain Electric Activity Changes after Guolin-Qigong
　　Yukiko Minegishi, Toshiaki Isotani, Masafumi Yoshimura, Keizo Yamada, Keiichiro Nishida,
　　Sachi Morita, Yukiko Saito, Satoshi Irisawa, Masami Ichikawa, Toshihiko Kinoshita
　　and Hiroshi Kihara
Electroencephalographic Study of Gender Difference in Brain's Response to Cold Pain
　　Shiyun Shao, Kaiquan Shen, Wu Chun Ng, Wee Sin Tan, Einar P. V. Wilder-Smith, Xiaoping Li,
　　and Chong Jin Ong
The effects of fruity floral fragrance bath milk on sleep architecture
　　Toru Nakajima, Mari Hagihara, Masato Saito and Yoshihiko Koga
Study of long term, pre and post mental stress measurement of CNV
　　Takuya Ichikawa, Masato Sakurai, and Sakae Yamamoto
Plastic Changes of Intra-Cortical and Cortico-Muscular Circuitries Induced by
Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Humans
　　Yuki Hayashida, Murat Sa?lam, Nobuki Murayama, Kaoru Matsunaga, and Ryoji Nakanishi
　　
5. Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Near-infrared optical imaging of human prefrontal cortex activity
　　Hui Gong, Ting Li, Jiahuan Zhai, Zhongxing Zhang, Qingming Luo
Overview of Application of Brain Science in Educational Research Field
　　Yasufumi Kuroda, Britton Chance, and Shoko Nioka
Practical Research of Education and Brain Science
　　Naoko Okamoto and Takanori Maesako
Brain Activity during Perception of Reachability
　　Noriyuki Kamata, Yoshimi Matsuo, Ayako Matsuya, Satoru Inoue, Kazuo Abe
Effects of Real/Virtual Musical Performance on a Time Sequential Oxy-hemoglobin
Pattern in Frontal Cortex
　　Nanako Okabe, Tomoki Toratani, Masakazu Iwasaka, Sachiko Agehara, and Katsuo Sugita
Hemodynamic Activity of Frontal Brain during Repeating Vocal Tasks
　　Tomoki Toratani, Masakazu Iwasaka, Hiromi Okabe, and Katsuo Sugita
Individual Differences in Changes in Cerebral Hemoglobin Concentrations during
a Cognitive Task and Their Mutual Relationships
　　Tadashi Niioka and Soichiro Ohnuki
Near-infrared spectroscopy over the frontal lobes during the mirror-drawing test
　　Y. Asano, I. Shimoyama, A. Murata, Y. Kasagi, K. Nakazawa, S. Yoshida, H. Yoshizaki,
　　A. Yoshida, F. Hayashi
　　
6. Brain Computer Interface
Using Brain-Computer interfaces for Control: A virtual smart home application study
　　Günter Edlinger, Chris Groenegress, Clemens Holzner, Robert Prückl, Christoph Guger
　　and Mel Slater
Topography of Cortical Activity In Patients with Motor Disorders
　　Junichi Ushiba
An examination of cursor control using synchronous-type BCI with frequency
band power of single-channel EEG
　　Tomohiko Igasaki, Masatomo Yahata, Kana Fujiwara, and Nobuki Murayama
Classifiers of EEG Beta Rhythms between Right and Left Wrist-Bending Hand
Movements and Their Imageries
　　Teruyoshi Sasayama, Jiuk Jung, and Tetsuo Kobayashi
A Bayesian network approach to single-trial-EEG-based BCI
　　Maiko Sakamoto and Toshimasa Yamazaki
Spatial Filtering of Steady-state Somatosensory Evoked Potentials toward the
Development of Brain-machine Interface
　　Hirokazu Kawaguchi, Teruyoshi Sasayama, Jiuk Jung, Takenori Oida, and Tetsuo Kobayashi
　　
7. Basic Studies of Multimodal Imaging
Phantom measurements of magnetic field distributions by a newly developed optically
pumped atomic magnetometer: A basic study toward biomagnetic applications
　　Shuji Taue, Yasuyuki Sugihara, Tetsuo Kobayashi, Sunao Ichihara, Kiyoshi Ishikawa,
　　and Natsuhiko Mizutani
Magnetoencephalography topographies overlaid with brain surface images
　　Akira Hashizume, Kaoru Kurisu, Koji Iida, Kota Kagawa, and Tomohide Akimitsu
GPU Accelerated Lead Field Calculation by Indirect Boundary Element Method
for Voxel Models
　　Shoji Hamada
3D Cortical Dipole Imaging of Brain Electrical Activity Considering Median Plane
　　Junichi Hori and Takeshi Koide
Measurement of brain activity in children without restraint using wireless EEG
　　Saki Fujiyama, Keiji Iramina
Imaging brain function and disease with laser speckle: instruments and applications
　　Jianjun Qiu, Pengcheng Li, Hongyan Zhang, Weihua Luo, Shangbing Chen and Qingming Luo
Influence of curvature and overlying tissues on cerebral oxygenation measurement
using spatially-resolved and single-point NIRS
　　Keisuke Ohishi and Masatsugu Niwayama
Considerations on Fluctuation in Optical Topography Signals by Using an Information
Amount
　　N. Matsushiro, K. Yamashita, Y.Kasagi, X. Wei, I. Shimoyama
Acquisition parameters in MR diffusion tensor imaging for clarifying the direction
of nerve fibers
　　Takenori Oida, Shizue Nagahara, and Tetsuo Kobayashi
Appropriate MPG Parameters for Diffusion Weighted Functional MRI
　　Shizue Nagahara, Takenori Oida, and Tetsuo Kobayashi
　　
8. Clinical Studies of Multimodal Imaging
An MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study on the Disruption of Cerebral White Matter
Integrity in Schizophrenia: Fiber Tracking of the Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus
　　Utako Yamamoto, Tetsuo Kobayashi, Shinsuke Kito, and Yoshihiko Koga
Gamma Band Activity during Gaze Perception in Schizophrenia
　　Kenji Kirihara, Tsuyoshi Araki, Yuki Kawakubo, Toshiaki Onitsuka, Tetsuo Kobayashi,
　　and Kiyoto Kasai
Changes in sleep phases associated with alleviation of depressive symptoms using
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: Preliminary study
　　Takashi Hasegawa, Shinsuke Kito, Toru Nakajima, Hiroshi Yamadera and Yoshihiko Koga
Automatic discriminative dysfunction of Parkinson's disease assessed by Mismatch
Negativity
　　Yuya Hoshino, Hideaki Tanaka, Ren Asai, Hirooki Yabe, Koichi Hirata
Detection of High-Frequency EEG Oscillations in Sleep-Induced Electrical Status
Epilepticus in Childhood
　　Katsuhiro Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Makio Oka, Harumi Yoshinaga, and Yoko Ohtsuka
Cerebral hypersensitivity during photic stimulation of migraine patients
assessed by sLORETA
　　Ryotaro Takashima, Hideaki Tanaka, Yuya Hoshino, Tomohiro Ogawa, Kunihiko Sakurai,
　　Yuka Watanabe, Koichi Hirata
Suggestive sumatriptan pharmacokinetics terminating migraine attack ? in vivo
analysis with near infrared spectroscopy and skin laser flowmeter
　　Yuka Watanabe, Hideaki Tanaka, Ryotaro Takashima, Yuya Hoshino, Tomohiro Ogawa,
　　Kunihiko Sakurai, Koichi Hirata
Estimation of time-varying cortical activity and connectivity from high resolution
EEG during single subject and simultaneous multi-subject recordings
　　Laura Astolfi, F. De Vico Fallani, F. Cincotti, D. Mattia, S. Salinari, H. Witte, C. Wilke,
　　H. Yuan, B. He and Fabio Babiloni
Physiological changes observed in a woman with severe motor and intellectual disabilities
as a result of care staff intervention: A near-infrared spectroscopy case study
　　Daisuke Hirano, Takamichi Taniguchi, Kotaro Takeda, Keiko Arai, and Shinichiro Takiguchi
A Case Report: The Change of EEG Findings in General Paresis before and after
Penicillin-G Treatment
　　Keiichiro Nishida, Masafumi Yoshimura, Azusa Suwa, Satoshi Kono, Yuichi Kitaura,
　　Toshiaki Isotani, Toshihiko Kinoshita
A Study on Electroencephalogram-based Indices for Seizure Duration Prediction
and Efficacy Estimation of Electroconvulsive Therapy
　　Eiko Furutani, Takeshi Umemoto, Yasutomo Yokokawa, Taro Suwa, and Hidemichi Suga