Atsushi Kikumoto

Postdoctoral research associate

Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Science

Brown University

I am interested in studying neural mechanisms that support cognitive control and working memory for flexible behavior. I use a range of methods including, EEG, eye-tracking, fMRI, and computational modeling.

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University(PI: David Badre) and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (PI: Kazuhisa Shibata). I completed my Ph.D at University of Oregon with Ulrich Mayr. During my Ph.D program, I visited the Max Planck Institute of Human Development in Berlin to join Cognitive and Neuronal Dynamic of Memory Across Lifespan team.

Interests

Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology

Education

PhD in Psychology, 2020
University of Oregon
BS in Psychology, 2014
University of Oregon

Publications and Preprints

“*” denotes that authors contributed equally to the work

Atsushi Kikumoto, Ulrich Mayr, David Badre (2022). The role of conjunctive representations in prioritizing and selecting planned actions. Elife.

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Atsushi Kikumoto, Tesufuaishin Sameshima, Ulrich Mayr (2022). The Role of Conjunctive Representations in Stopping Actions. Psychological Science.

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David Badre, Apoorva Bhandari, Haley Keglovits, Atsushi Kikumoto (2021). The Dimensionality of Neural Representations for Control. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.

Atsushi Kikumoto, Ulrich Mayr (2020). Conjunctive Representations that Integrate Stimuli, Responses, and Rules are Critical for Action Selection. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Margaret E Sereno, Kelly E Robles, Atsushi Kikumoto, Alexander J Bies (2020). The Effects of Three-Dimensional Context on Shape Perception. Psychological Science.

Melissa E Moss, Atsushi Kikumoto, Ulrich Mayr (2020). Does Conflict Resolution Rely on Working Memory?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learnning, Mememory, and Cognition.

Atsushi Kikumoto, Ulrich Mayr (2019). Balancing Model-based and Memory-free Action Selection under Competitive Pressure. Elife.

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Jason Hubbard*, Atsushi Kikumoto*, Ulrich Mayr (2019). EEG Decoding Reveals the Strength and Temporal Dynamics of Goal-Relevant Representations. Scientific Report.

Atsushi Kikumoto, Ulrich Mayr (2018). Decoding Hierarchical Control of Sequential Behavior in Oscillatory EEG Activity. Elife.

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Atsushi Kikumoto, Ulrich Mayr (2017). The Nature of Task Set Representations in Working Memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Atsushi Kikumoto, Jason Hubbard, Ulrich Mayr (2016). Dynamics of Task-set Carry-over: Evidence from Eye-movement Analyses. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

U Mayr, K Kleffner-Canucci, A Kikumoto, others (2014). Control of Task Sequences: What is the Role of Language?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learnning, Mememory, and Cognition.