MInoru Kimura

MInoru Kimura
Affiliation Director of Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute, Graduate School of Brain Sciences
Position Title Professor & Dean, Graduate School of Brain Sciences
Field of Specialization Neurophysiology, Brain mechanisms of decision-making and action selection
Room Number Research Center Building
Research Keywords System neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Basal Ganglia, Motivation
Professional Affiliation Physiological Society of Japan, The Japan Neuroscience Society, Society for Neuroscience, International Basal Ganglia Society

Articles

  • Coding of the long-term value of multiple future rewards in the primate striatum, Yamada H., Inokawa H., Matsumoto N., Ueda Y., Enomoto K., Kimura M., J Neurophysiol., 2013/02, 109(4), 1140 - 1151
  • The Basal Ganglia, Reinforcement Learning and the Encoding of Value In: Neuroeconomics: Decision-Making and the Brain, Kenji Doya and Minoru Kimura, Academic Press Eds: Paul Glimcher and Ernst Fehr, 2013, in press, 313 - 324
  • Serotonin2C receptors in the nucleus accumbens are involved in enhanced alcohol-drinking behavior, Yoshimoto K., Watanabe Y., Tanaka M., Kimura M., Eur J Neurosci, 2012/04, 35(8), 1368 - 1380
  • Thalamic contributions to basal ganglia-related behavioral switching and reinforcement, Smith Y, Surmeier DJ, Redgrave P, Kimura M, J Neurosci., 2011/11, 31(45), 16102 - 16106
  • Dopamine neurons learn to encode the long-term value of multiple future rewards, Enomoto K., Matsumoto N., Nakai S., Satoh T., Sato T.K., Ueda Y., Inokawa H., Haruno M., Kimura M., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2011/09, 108(37), 15462 - 15467
  • Neuronal basis for evaluating selected action in the primate striatum, Yamada H., Inokawa H., Matsumoto N., Ueda Y., Kimura M., Eur J Neurosci, 2011/08, 34(3), 489 - 506
  • Inactivation of the putamen selectively impairs reward history-based action selection, Muranishi M., Inokawa H., Yamada H., Ueda Y., Matsumoto N., Nakagawa M., Kimura M., Exp Brain Res, 2011/03, 209(2), 235 - 246
  • Juxtacellular labeling of tonically active neurons and phasically active neurons in the rat striatum, Inokawa H., Yamada H., Matsumoto N., Muranishi M., Kimura M., Neuroscience Letters, 2010/06, 168(2), 395 - 404
  • Neuronal encoding of reward value and direction of actions in the primate putamen, Hori Y, Minamimoto T, Kimura M, J Neurophysiol, 2009, 102, 3530 - 3543
  • Roles of the thalamic CM-PF complex–Basal ganglia circuit in externally driven rebias of action, Minamimoto T, Hori Y. & Kimura M, Brain Res. Bull, 2009, 78, 75 - 79
  • History- and current instruction-based coding of forthcoming behavioral outcomes in the striatum, Yamada H, Matsumoto N. & Kimura M, J. Neurophysiol, 2007, 98, 3557 - 3567
  • Representation of action-specific reward values in the striatum, Samejima K, Ueda Y, Doya K. & Kimura M, Science, 2005, 310, 1337 - 1340
  • Complementary process to response bias in the centromedian nucleus of the thalamus, Minamimoto T, Hori Y. & Kimura M, Science, 2005, 308, 1798 - 1801
  • Tonically active neurons in the primate caudate nucleus and putamen differentially encode instructed motivational outcomes of action, Yamada H, Matsumoto N. & Kimura M, J. Neurosci, 2004, 24, 3500 - 3510

International Conferences

  • Yamanaka K., Oral presentation, Optimization of action selection by resetting response bias through CM-striatum projection, 11th International Basal Ganglia Society Meeting (IBAGS XI), Princess Hotel Eilat, Taba Beach (Eilat), Israel, 2013/03/04
  • Ueda Y., Okazaki S. R., Yamanaka K., Enomoto K., Kano M., Kimura M., Impairment of reward-based adaptive choice of actions by local injection of cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonist into the striatum of behaving monkeys , Neuroscience 2012, SfN's 42nd annual meeting Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2012/10/17
  • Yamanaka K., Kimura M., Signals projected from the centromedian nucleus of thalamus to the putamen during reward-based action selection in monkey , Neuroscience 2012, SfN's 42nd annual meeting Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2012/10/15
  • Haruno M., Kimura M., Frith C., Activity in the nucleus accumbens and amygdala encodes prosocial and individualistic intuitions in social decision making, Neuroscience 2012, SfN's 42nd annual meeting Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, 2012/10/15
  • Enomoto K., Matsumoto M., Kimura M., Location-specific roles of dopamine neurons in the midbrain in learning and decision-making, Neuroscience 2012, SfN's 42nd annual meeting Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2012/10/13
  • Kimura M, Oral presentation, Neuronal basis of decision, action and evaluation in the basal ganglia , Striatum Workshop in London(Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Striatum Meeting), Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UK, 2012/05/25
  • Smith Y., Surmeier D.J., Redgrave P., Kimura M., Thalamic Contributions to Basal Ganglia-Related Behavioral Switching and Reinforcement, The 41th annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience Walter E, Washington Convention Center, USA, 2011/11/14
  • Kimura M., Enomoto K., Yamanaka K., Oral presentation, Value signals for decision and action selection in the basal ganglia, Janelia Conference Neural Circuits of Decision-Making, Janelia Farm Research Campus, VA, USA, 2011/03/06
  • Enomoto K., Matsumoto N., Haruno M., Kimura M., Differential encoding of reward value and its prediction error by dopamine neurons located in ventromedial and dorsolateral parts of the midbrain, The 40th annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA, 2010/11/17
  • Kimura M, Yamada H, Enomoto K, Matsumoto N, Hori Y, Ueda Y. & Yamanaka K, Involvement of the basal ganglia in valuation and selection of actions, The 36th Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS2009), Kyoto, JAPAN, 2009/07/29
  • Ueda Y, Samejima K, Yamanaka K, Doya K. & Kimura M, Adaptation of reward-based free-choices is impaired by D1 but not D2 dopamine receptor antagonist in the striatum, The 38th annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA, 2008/11/17
  • Yamada H, Inokawa H. & Kimura M, Representation of reward value, schedule state, and action selection in the striatum during scheduled, probabilistic reward task, The 36th annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, USA, 2006/10/16
  • Hori Y, Minamimoto T. & Kimura M, Temporal relationship between neuronal activities in the putamen and CM thalamus during an asymmetrically rewarded GO-NOGO task, The 36th annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, USA, 2006/10/16
  • Kimura M, Emotion and Frontal lobe function, The 4th International Parkinson’s Disease Symposium in Takamatsu, Kagawa, JAPAN, 2006/05/09
  • Kimura M, Neural correlates of response bias and its complementary process in the thalamus and striatum, JSPS-UCL Symposium ‘Cognition and Action’, London, UK, 2005/09/09

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