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  1. Reduced preference for smooth over rough surfaces in autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Research in Autism, April 2026, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  2. Atypical tactile preferences in autism spectrum disorder: Reduced pleasantness responses to soft objects resembling human body parts

    Article • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, March 2025, Wiley

    Ryo Kitada

  3. Affective Touch with Mid-Air Ultrasound: A Psychophysical Comparison with Real Materials

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Haptics, January 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ryo Kitada

  4. Atypical Tactile Preferences in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Reduced Pleasantness Responses to Soft Objects Resembling Human Body Parts

    Article • October 2024, Center for Open Science

    Ryo Kitada

  5. Functional relevance of the extrastriate body area for visual and haptic object recognition: a preregistered fMRI-guided TMS study

    Article • Cerebral Cortex Communications, April 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Kitada

  6. Functional relevance of the extrastriate body area for visual and haptic object recognition: a preregistered fMRI-guided TMS study

    Article • December 2022, Center for Open Science

    Ryo Kitada

  7. Japanese Sound-Symbolic Words for Representing the Hardness of an Object Are Judged Similarly by Japanese and English Speakers

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2022, Frontiers

    Ryo Kitada

  8. Coexistence of sensory qualities and value representations in human orbitofrontal cortex

    Article • Neuroscience Research, February 2022, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  9. The Effect of Temperature on Tactile Softness Perception

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Haptics, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ryo Kitada

  10. Importance of the early visual cortex and the lateral occipito-temporal cortex for the self-hand specific perspective process

    Article • Neuroimage Reports, December 2021, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  11. Multisensory integration and its plasticity – How do innate and postnatal factors contribute to forming individual differences?

    Article • Cortex, December 2021, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  12. Physical correlates of human-like softness elicit high tactile pleasantness

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Kitada

  13. The extrastriate body area is involved in reciprocal imitation of hand gestures, vocalizations, and facial expressions: A univariate and multivariate fMRI study

    Article • Social Neuroscience, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ryo Kitada

  14. Brain networks underlying the processing of sound symbolism related to softness perception

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Kitada

  15. Tactile perception of pleasantness in relation to perceived softness

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Kitada

  16. Visual Body Part Representation in the Lateral Occipitotemporal Cortex in Children/Adolescents and Adults

    Article • Cerebral Cortex Communications, April 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Kitada

  17. Differences between children and adults in functional connectivity between the inferior frontal gyrus and extrastriate body area for gestural interaction

    Article • Social Neuroscience, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Ryo Kitada

  18. Controlled emotional tactile stimulation during functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience Methods, November 2019, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  19. Brain networks underlying tactile softness perception: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Article • NeuroImage, August 2019, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  20. Cross-cultural similarity in relationship-specific social touching

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Ryo Kitada, Professor Riitta HARI

  21. Emotional Tears Communicate Sadness but Not Excessive Emotions Without Other Contextual Knowledge

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2019, Frontiers

    Ryo Kitada

  22. Affective judgement of social touch on a hand associated with hand embodiment

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Ryo Kitada

  23. The effect of object compliance on the velvet hand illusion

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Haptics, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ryo Kitada

  24. Distinct sensitivities of the lateral prefrontal cortex and extrastriate body area to contingency between executed and observed actions

    Article • Cortex, November 2018, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  25. Brain networks underlying conscious tactile perception of textures as revealed using the velvet hand illusion

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, August 2018, Wiley

    Ryo Kitada

  26. Neural correlates underlying change in state self-esteem

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Kitada

  27. Altered perspective-dependent brain activation while viewing hands and associated imitation difficulties in individuals with autism spectrum disorder

    Article • NeuroImage Clinical, January 2018, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  28. Brain networks of social action-outcome contingency: The role of the ventral striatum in integrating signals from the sensory cortex and medial prefrontal cortex

    Article • Neuroscience Research, October 2017, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  29. The Effect of Dual-Hemisphere Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Parietal Operculum on Tactile Orientation Discrimination

    Article • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, September 2017, Frontiers

    Ryo Kitada

  30. Age-dependent atypicalities in body- and face-sensitive activation of the EBA and FFA in individuals with ASD

    Article • Neuroscience Research, June 2017, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  31. Brain networks involved in tactile speed classification of moving dot patterns: the effects of speed and dot periodicity

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Kitada

  32. Overstatement in happiness reporting with ordinal, bounded scale

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Kitada

  33. Brain networks of affective mentalizing revealed by the tear effect: The integrative role of the medial prefrontal cortex and precuneus

    Article • Neuroscience Research, December 2015, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  34. Designing Haptic Assistive Technology for Individuals Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Haptics, July 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ryo Kitada

  35. Role of the precuneus in the detection of incongruency between tactile and visual texture information: A functional MRI study

    Article • Neuropsychologia, November 2014, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  36. Attenuation of the contingency detection effect in the extrastriate body area in autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Neuroscience Research, October 2014, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  37. The Brain Network Underlying the Recognition of Hand Gestures in the Blind: The Supramodal Role of the Extrastriate Body Area

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, July 2014, Society for Neuroscience

    Ryo Kitada

  38. From gestures to words: Spontaneous verbal labeling of complex sequential hand movements reduces fMRI activation of the imitation-related regions

    Article • Neuroscience Research, March 2013, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  39. Early visual experience and the recognition of basic facial expressions: involvement of the middle temporal and inferior frontal gyri during haptic identification by the early blind

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Ryo Kitada

  40. Tactile Perception of Nonpainful Unpleasantness in Relation to Perceived Roughness: Effects of Inter-Element Spacing and Speed of Relative Motion of Rigid 2-D Raised-Dot Patterns at Two Body Loci

    Article • Perception, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Ryo Kitada

  41. Figure/Ground Segmentation via a Haptic Glance: Attributing Initial Finger Contacts to Objects or Their Supporting Surfaces

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Haptics, January 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ryo Kitada

  42. Representing Human Hands Haptically or Visually from First-Person versus Third-Person Perspectives

    Article • Perception, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Ryo Kitada

  43. Brain networks involved in haptic and visual identification of facial expressions of emotion: An fMRI study

    Article • NeuroImage, January 2010, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  44. Functional Specialization and Convergence in the Occipito-temporal Cortex Supporting Haptic and Visual Identification of Human Faces and Body Parts: An fMRI Study

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, October 2009, The MIT Press

    Ryo Kitada

  45. Haptic Recognition of Static and Dynamic Expressions of Emotion in the Live Face

    Article • Psychological Science, February 2007, SAGE Publications

    Ryo Kitada

  46. Haptic face processing.

    Article • Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ryo Kitada

  47. Multisensory Activation of the Intraparietal Area When Classifying Grating Orientation: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, July 2006, Society for Neuroscience

    Ryo Kitada

  48. Haptic face identification activates ventral occipital and temporal areas: An fMRI study

    Article • Brain and Cognition, December 2005, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  49. Tactile estimation of the roughness of gratings yields a graded response in the human brain: an fMRI study

    Article • NeuroImage, March 2005, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada

  50. Moving tactile stimuli of fingers are integrated in the intraparietal and inferior parietal cortices

    Article • Neuroreport, April 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Ryo Kitada

  51. Internally Simulated Movement Sensations during Motor Imagery Activate Cortical Motor Areas and the Cerebellum

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, May 2002, Society for Neuroscience

    Ryo Kitada

  52. Perceptual changes in illusory wrist flexion angles resulting from motor imagery of the same wrist movements

    Article • Neuroscience, February 2002, Elsevier

    Ryo Kitada