Dr. Masami Tatsuno

Name: Masami Tatsuno

Phone: 403.394.3998

E-mail: tatsuno@uleth.ca

Office: SA8234

Degrees:
PhD - Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)
MSc - Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)
BEng - Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)

Biography:
Masami Tatsuno received his PhD in Applied Physics from Waseda University, Japan. From 1999 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, where he conducted information geometric analysis of spike trains under the mentorship of Shun-ichi Amari. In order to acquire experimental skills to further his interest in neural computational principles, he joined the group of Bruce McNaughton at the University of Arizona in 2002. There, he conducted multi-electrode recording from various brain areas, and studied memory-trace reactivation during slow-wave and REM sleep and the fluctuation of cortical Up and Down states. In 2005, he was appointed as a research faculty of the University of Arizona. In 2009, he accepted the faculty position at the University of Lethbridge .
Recent
Publications:

Y. Nie and M. Tatsuno, (submitted) Information-geometric measures for estimation of connection weight under correlated inputs.

Z. Navratilova, L. T. Hoang, C. D. Schwindel, M. Tatsuno and B. L. McNaughton, (submitted) Experience-dependent firing rate remapping generates directional selectivity in hippocampal place cells.

M. Tatsuno, (2010) Sleep and learning – memory consolidation and memory-trace replay during sleep -, Japanese Journal of Sleep Medicine, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 483-488 [Japanese].

M. Tatsuno, (2010) Multi-electrode recording from freely behaving animals and spike train analysis, Journal of Japan Neural Network Society, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 124-138 [Japanese].

L. A. Johnson, D. R. Euston, M. Tatsuno and B. L. McNaughton, (2010) Stored-trace reactivation in rat prefrontal cortex is correlated with down-to-up state fluctuation density, Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 2650-2661.

M. Tatsuno, (2009) Replay of behaviorally induced multi-neuronal spiking patterns during subsequent sleep, Seitai No Kagaku, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 285-294 [Japanese].

M. Tatsuno, JM. Fellous and S. Amari , (2009) Information geometric measures as robust estimators of connection strengths and external inputs, Neural Computation, Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 2309-2335.

M. Tatsuno, (2007) Memory replay and memory consolidation, Seibutsu Butsuri, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 367 – 377 [Japanese].

D. R. Euston, M. Tatsuno and B. L. McNaughton, (2007) Fast-forward playback of recent memory sequences in prefrontal cortex during sleep, Science, Vol. 318, No. 5853, pp. 1147-1150.

M. Tatsuno, P. Lipa and B. L. McNaughton, (2006) Methodological considerations on the use of template matching to study long-lasting memory trace replay, Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 26, No. 42, pp. 10727-10742.

M. Tatsuno and M. Okada, (2004) Investigation of possible neural architectures underlying information-geometric measures, Neural Computation , Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 737 - 765.

M. Tatsuno and M. Okada, (2003) How does the information-geometric measure depend on underlying neural mechanisms?, Neurocomputing , Vol. 52 - 54, pp. 649 - 654.