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Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.06.23.546219v1?rss=1 Authors: Iwata, T., Yanagisawa, T., Ikegaya, Y., Smallwood, J., Fukuma, R., Oshino, S., Tani, N., Khoo, H. M., Kishima, H. Abstract: Core features of human cognition, for example, the experience of mind wandering, highlight the importance of the capacity to focus on information separate from the here and now. However, the brain mechanisms that underpin these self-generated states remain unclear. An emerging hypothesis is that self-generated states depend on the process of memory replay, which, in animals, is linked to sharp-wave ripples (SWRs) originating in the hippocampus. SWRs are transient high-frequency oscillations that exhibit circadian fluctuations and, in the laboratory, are important for memory and planning. Local field potentials were recorded from the hippocampus of 11 patients with epilepsy for up to 15 days, and experience sampling was used to describe their association with ongoing thought patterns. SWRs were correlated with patterns of vivid, intrusive ongoing thoughts unrelated to the task being performed, establishing their contribution to the ongoing thoughts that humans experience in daily life. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.04.28.538785v1?rss=1 Authors: Watanabe, Y., Ikegaya, Y., Yanagisawa, T. Abstract: Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.14.528553v1?rss=1 Authors: Kubo, T., Tani, Y., Yanagisawa, H., Kikkawa, M., Oda, T. Abstract: - and {beta}-tubulin have an unstructured glutamate-rich region at their C-terminal tails (CTT). The function of this region in cilia/flagella is still unclear, except that glutamates in CTT act as the sites for posttranslational modifications that affect ciliary motility. A unicellular alga Chlamydomonas possesses only two -tubulin genes and two {beta}-tubulin genes, each pair encoding an identical protein. This simple gene organization may enable a complete replacement of the wild-type tubulin with its mutated version. Here, using CRISPR/Cas9, we generated mutants expressing tubulins with modified CTTs. We found that the mutant whose four glutamate residues in the -tubulin CTT have been replaced by alanine almost completely lacked polyglutamylated tubulin and displayed paralyzed cilia. In contrast, the mutant lacking the glutamate-rich region of the {beta}-tubulin CTT assembled short cilia without the central apparatus. This phenotype is similar to the mutants harboring a mutation in a subunit of katanin, whose function has been shown to depend on the {beta}-tubulin CTT. Therefore, our study reveals distinct and important roles of - and {beta}-tubulin CTT in the formation and function of cilia. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

This week, Tiffany has invited a prominent LGBTQ+ advocate in Japan as a guest to discuss the amazing initiatives he is conducting to support marriage equality! Born and raised in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Masa San has a perfect place for Tokyoites to go to LGBTQ+ friendly ‘Hayama Beach House' that celebrated their 10th anniversary! The conversation focuses on Masa San's career, his TedTalk 10yrs ago and his experience when coming out in Japan. Such courage brought Masa San, on one hand, face struggles with those who could not accept him and on the other, getting to connect even more deeply with the people around him. Moreover, Masa San shares his advocacy to educate about the social, economical and cultural advantages for Japan to offer such rights. Masa San hopes for Japan to achieve marriage equality, legal protection like anti-discrimination for the LGBTQ+ community, and transgender transitions that does not require surgery. And finally, we are left with an inspiring message to not give up on one's dreams, even in a society that might convince you otherwise. Let us celebrate the significant strides the LGBTQ+ community has achieved, to have more discussions, and keep supporting all for their right to love, to live and to be a family. Masa Yanagisawa has been driving LGBTQ+ inclusion both within a financial firm, as well as externally. He has secured LGBTQ+ events in Japan, including the Tokyo Pride Parade and 30th Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Movie Festival. In addition, he advocated for intersectionality and provided strategic advice on the firm's global self-identification campaign across diverse groups. He has worked with office network leads across eight APAC locations in key initiatives: Pride Month and Pink Friday, which engages internal and external workplaces to wear pink t-shirts to promote LGBTQ+ awareness. Masa is an active member of NGOs to promote LGBTQ+ rights, and published two articles in Nikkei Asia. You can find Masa San's Ted Talk here: https://youtu.be/66N6AWznzCo Twitter: @masayanagisawa Mentioned in the episode: HIMEYUKI Kimono Obi Accessories Instagram Link ~ https://www.instagram.com/himeyuuki_obi/ HIMEYUKI Official Website ~ https://himeyuki.net/en/collections/allLeave our podcast a review, comment and ratings; Spotify ~ https://open.spotify.com/show/52ySZU9QRQOkkCfM2pJaiz?si=96fc6105f4e44a93Apple Podcast (scroll further down in provided link to rate the episode) ~ https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/breakfast-with-tiffany-show/id1524300778Support the showBreakfast With Tiffany Show Official Facebook Page ~ https://www.facebook.com/breakfastwithtiffanyshow Tiffany's Instagram Account ~ https://www.instagram.com/tiffanyrossdaleofficial/ For coaching sessions & programs with Tiffany, check out her official page ~ https://www.tiffanyrossdale.com Breakfast With Tiffany Show Youtube Channel ~ https://bit.ly/3vIVzhE Breakfast With Tiffany Show Official Page ~ https://www.tiffanyrossdale.com/podcast For questions, requests, collaborations and comments, feel free to reach us via our e-mail~breakfastwithtiffanyshow@outlook.com

Japanese competitor Akiko Yanagisawa talks about bridge lessons and learning, and initiatives to promote bridge in Japan. Plus, she shares her top tip for developing players. But first, we kibitz!The Japanese Contract Bridge LeagueSend your bridge stories and comments to sorrypartnerpodcast@gmail.com.Or @sorrypartnerpodcast on Instagram.Or send us a VOICE MESSAGE at www.speakpipe.com/SorryPartnerPodcast (it's FREE!).Please consider supporting the show at Patreon: SORRY, PARTNER/PATREONLooking for some Sorry, Partner SWAG or a gift for a friend? Check out the Sorry, Partner Merch StoreJoin our MAILING LIST here.These links are also available on our website: sorrypartner.comAnd if you have a bridge-playing friend who is not yet listening to podcasts in the car, on walks, or while doing the dishes, why not show them how easy it is -- and start with SORRY, PARTNER on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/sorry-partner. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hogyan készül Japánban egy magyar nyelvű blog? Milyen témák érdeklik a Japán iránt érdeklődő hallgatókat? Hogy néz ki egy modell család? Milyen fiatalnak lenni ma Japánban? Ilyen és ehhez hasonló kérdésekre válaszol az Orient Expressz e heti vendége, Yanagisawa Horváth Gyöngyi, japanológus, a „Japán Window” című blog (https://japan-window.hu/) és podcast (https://podcast.ablak-japanra.com/) szerzője, aki már több mint 25 éve él Tokióban és célja, hogy minél több emberhez juttassa el a japán kultúra mélyebb összefüggéseit, amihez kapcsolódóan Facebook oldalán is sok érdekes információt oszt meg követőivel. (https://www.facebook.com/Yanagisawa.Gyoengyi/) Az Orient Expressz adásainak elkészültét a Magyar Nemzeti Bank támogatja. Riporterek: Decsi Dóra és Szivák Júlia Elhangzott a Civilradio.NET-en 2022. április 12-én. Az adásban elhangzott zeneszámok: The Bamboo Radicals – Széles szájú kiskutyád: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSWd69XWsTI Milet - Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce_9Ze-gf2o Nakajima Miyuki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2SlpjCz7uE Kimiko Kasai – Very Special Moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdwnL3tD8Q

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing.

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/japanese-studies

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu's retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan's early modern era. Featuring Machiko's keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women's lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English. Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Hideo Yanagisawa shares his choice for Hemingway's one true sentence, which comes from a letter to Charles Scribner about The Old Man and the Sea.

Hideo Yanagisawa shares his choice for Hemingway's one true sentence, which comes from a letter to Charles Scribner about The Old Man and the Sea.

Essa semana vamos contar a carreira de mais um dos grandes atacantes da geração de ouro do futebol japonês. O multicampeão pelo Kashima Anthers Atsushi Yanagisawa. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hinomaru/support

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.27.269811v1?rss=1 Authors: Sekoguchi, T., Yanagisawa, H. Abstract: Previous mathematical models developed to optimize the degree of novelty in product design have represented novelty by emotional dimensions such as arousal (surprise) and valence (positivity and negativity). Formalizing arousal as Bayesian information gain and valence as a function of arousal based on Berlyne's arousal potential theory, the model indicates that novelty becomes acceptable with repeated exposure and changes the preferences of the users. Hence, acceptable novelty transitions are important in the design of long-term product experience. We propose a mathematical model of acceptable novelty transitions with emotional habituation based on the emotional dimension model. We formalized valence as a function of information-theoretic free-energy and expressed free-energy as a function of three parameters: initial prediction error, initial uncertainty, and noise of sensory stimulus. To verify whether the transition speed of acceptable novelty depends on the initial uncertainty in our model, we analysed the responses of participants to historic artworks; we manipulated the uncertainty level by varying the obscurity of the presented pieces and the prediction error by rendering them in different artistic styles. We used the subjective reports of valence in response to the samples as measures of valence levels. The experimental results support our hypothesis. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.12.247775v1?rss=1 Authors: Hashimoto, H., Khoo, H. M., Yanagisawa, T., Tani, N., Oshino, S., Kishima, H., Hirata, M. Abstract: High-frequency activities (HFAs) and phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) are gaining attention as key neurophysiological biomarkers for studying human epilepsy. We aimed to clarify and visualize how HFAs are modulated by the phase of low-frequency bands during seizures. We used intracranial electrodes to record seizures of symptomatic focal epilepsy (15 seizures in seven patients). Ripples (80-250 Hz), as representative of HFAs, were evaluated along with PAC. The synchronization index (SI), representing PAC, was used to analyze the coupling between the amplitude of ripples and the phase of lower frequencies. The main low frequency band modulating ictal-ripple activities was the {theta} band (4-8 Hz), and after completion of ictal-ripple burst, {delta} (1-4 Hz)-ripple PAC occurred. We created a video in which the intracranial electrode contacts were represented by circles that were scaled linearly to the power changes of ripple. The video showed that fluctuation of the diameter of these circles indicated the rhythmic changes during significant high values of {theta}-ripple PAC. Moreover, clonic seizures were observed when values of {delta}-ripple PAC were significantly high. We inferred that ripple activities occurring during seizure evolution were modulated by {theta} rhythm, and ripple activities involved in clonic seizures were modulated by {delta} rhythm. In addition, we concluded that rhythmic circles' fluctuation presented in the video represents the PAC phenomenon. Our video is thus a useful tool for understanding how ripple activity is modulated by the low-frequency phase in relation with PAC. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.07.24.219253v1?rss=1 Authors: Ueda, K., Sekoguchi, T., Yanagisawa, H. Abstract: One becomes accustomed to repeated exposures, even for a novel event. In the present study, we investigated how predictability affects habituation to novelty by applying a mathematical model of arousal that we previously developed, and conducted a psychophysiological experiment to test the model prediction. We formalized habituation to novelty as a decrement in Kullback-Leibler divergence from Bayesian prior to posterior (i.e., information gain) representing arousal evoked from a novel event through Bayesian update. The model predicted an interaction effect between initial uncertainty and initial prediction error (i.e., predictability) on habituation to novelty: The greater the initial uncertainty, the faster the information gain decreases (i.e., the sooner one is habituated). Experimental results using subjective reports of surprise and event-related potential (P300) evoked by visual-auditory incongruity supported the model prediction. Our findings suggest that in highly uncertain situations, repeated exposure to stimuli may enhance habituation to novel stimuli. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.07.21.213868v1?rss=1 Authors: Hashimoto, H., Takahashi, K., Kameda, S., Yoshida, F., Maezawa, H., Oshino, S., Tani, N., Khoo, H. M., Yanagisawa, T., Yoshimine, T., Kishima, H., Hirata, M. Abstract: Swallowing is a unique movement because orchestration of voluntary and involuntary movement, and coordination between sensory input and motor output are indispensable. We hypothesized that neural mechanism of them were revealed by cortical oscillatory changes. Eight epileptic participants fitted with intracranial electrodes over the orofacial cortex were asked to swallow a water bolus, and cortical oscillatory changes were investigated. At the boundary time between voluntary and involuntary swallowing, high {gamma} (75-150 Hz) power achieved the peak, and subsequently, the power decreased. High {gamma} power increases (burst) were associated with both sensory input and motor output. However, phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) revealed that sensory-related coupling appeared during high {gamma}-bursts, and motor-related coupling appeared before high {gamma}-bursts. The peak of high {gamma} power suggests switching of swallowing driving force from the cortex to the brain stem, and PAC findings suggest that motor-related coupling induces later motor-related high {gamma}-activities representing endogenous neural processing. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

In this sixth episode of Live at Liberty: A Saxophone Podcast, the usual cast of characters welcomes guest Bruce Williams onto the show for the first of many interviews. Bruce discusses his background and influences, his connection to the Liberty Music family, his new record "Private Thoughts," endorsements, horror stories, and much much more.   As always, a special thanks to our friend, Bruce Williams for the music featured in this podcast.   Come visit us at:  Liberty Music Associates 1100 Globe Avenue, Moutainside NJ, 07092 908-379-3344 https://libertymusic.us/    

VIDEO - Improvised sketch from Gary's 2011 album "Calm After the Storm". Performed & arranged © GaryPHayes 2011. Yanagisawa soprano Sax, Piano, Spectrasonics Omnisphere & RMX.

Improvised sketch from Gary's 2011 album "Calm After the Storm". Performed & arranged © GaryPHayes 2011. Yanagisawa soprano Sax, Piano, Spectrasonics Omnisphere & RMX.

1-take Improvised sketch from Gary's 2011 album "Calm After the Storm". Performed & arranged © GaryPHayes 2011. Yanagisawa soprano Sax, Piano, Spectrasonics Omnisphere & RMX.

VIDEO - 1-take Improvised sketch from Gary's 2011 album "Calm After the Storm". Performed & arranged © GaryPHayes 2011. Yanagisawa soprano Sax, Piano, Spectrasonics Omnisphere & RMX.