Cognitive Neuroscience
The qualia initiative
Ken Mogi
Last updated 5th April 2008
This site is under
construction
Mission Statement
Qualia are the subjective sensory qualities like "the redness of red" that accompany our perception. Elucidating the neural basis of qualia is central in understanding the principles of the "integrated parallelism" in cortical information processing. The so-called "binding problem" is a typical aspect of the above mentioned "integrated parallelism". My research is focused on the mathematical formulation of qualia, and its implementation in novel artificial computing processes. Here, it is essential to obtain the space-time structure characterizing our perceptual processes from the causal relationship between neural firings, and to understand the symmetries involved in the neural basis of qualia.
Mogi laboratory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology
Representative Research Interests (descriptions and resources available sometime soon)
Mircoslips, Theory of Mind, Cognitive development, Fluctuation and adaptability, Neural correlates of qualia, Minimal model of subjectivity, Visual awareness, Binocular Rivalry, Biological Motion, Psychological Time, Stochastic Intereference, Graphic Transformation Method, Neuroeconomics, Dynamical editing of memory etc.
Publications (You can download the
PDF file of some papers)
Sudo, T. & Mogi. K.
(2008) Mechanism of perceptual categorization in the pre-linguistic period.
IEICE transactions, in press.
Omata, K. & Mogi, K.
(2008) Fusion and combination in
audio-visual integration. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 464,
319–340. pdf
Zhang, Q. and Mogi, K.
(2007) REPRESENTATION OF 3-D VOLUMETRIC OBJECT FROM THE PANTOMIME EFFECT AND
SHADING CUES IN HUMAN BRAIN, International Journal of Pattern Recognitionand
Artificial Intelligence Vol. 21, 1307–1322. .
pdf
Hoshino, E., Taya, F., and
Mogi, K. (2007) Memory formation of object representation : natural scenes.
Proceedings of the ICCN
Tanabe, F. and Mogi. K.
(2006) Lability of Reactivated Human Declarative Memory. Proceedings of the
ICONIP 2006, 147-154
Omata, K. & Mogi, K. (2005) Audiovisual integration in Dichotic
listening. INTERSPEECH-2005,
1717-1720. abstract
and pdf
Sudo, T. & Mogi, K. (2005) Perceptual and Linguistic Category Formation
in Infants. INTERSPEECH-2005, 1717-1720. abstract
and pdf
Onzo, A. and Mogi, K. (2005) Dynamics of betting behavior under flat reward condition. International Journal of Neural Systems 15, 93-99. (2005) pdf file
Taya, F. and Mogi, K. (2005) Spatio-temporal dynamics of the visual system revealed in binocular rivalry. Neuroscience Letters 381 (1-2): 63-68. pdf file
Kei Omata, Ken Mogi (2004) "Integration over the hemispheres in phoneme perception" The Society for Neuroscience 34th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
Kei Omata, Ken Mogi (2004) "The McGurk effect in the dichotic listening" KIT International Symposium on Brain and Language 2004, Kanazawa
Taya, F. and Mogi, K. (2004) Variability and adaptability of the visual system in binocular rivalry. The Society for Neuroscience 34th Annual Meeting, San Diego, US.
Taya, F. and Mogi, K. (2004) Variability and adaptability of the visual system in binocular rivalry. The 27th European Conference on Visual Perception, Budapest, Hungary.
Sudo, T. and Mogi, K. (2004) "Perceptual and linguistic category formation in the prelinguistic period" The Society for Neuroscience 34th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
Sudo, T. and Mogi, K. (2004)"Perceptual and linguistic category formation in infants" KIT International Symposium on Brain and Language 2004, Kanazawa
Yanagawa, T., Mogi, K. (2004)“Ongoing activity dynamics in a heterogeneous neural network” The Society for Neuroscience 34th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA 2004.10.23-27
Qi Zhang, Ken Mogi, Masanori Idesawa, "Human brain activities in 3-D volumetric object perception", The 27th European Conference on Visual Perception, Budapest, Hungary, 2004.
Qi Zhang, Ken Mogi, "Three-Dimensional object representation in human brain",Society for Neuroscience, Program No. 824.7. Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner,2004.
Fumiko Tanabe, Ken Mogi“The recosolidation theory in human declarative memory”
Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness 8th Annual meeting (2004)
Taya, F. and Mogi, K. (2004) The variant and invariant in perception. Forma, 19, pp.25-37. pdf file
Onzo, A. and Mogi, K. (2004) Cognitive Process of Emotion under Uncertainty.(2004) Procedings of ICONIP 2004, 300-305
Mogi, K. (2003) The easy and hard problems in cognitive science. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Science (Sydney, July 2003) pp.439-443
Sudo. T. & Mogi, K. (2003) Pre-linguistic category formation in infants. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Science (Sydney, July 2003)
Mogi, K. (2003) On the nonlocal nature of the physical basis of consciousness. Quantum Mind 2003. abstract
Zhang, Q., Idesawa, M. & Mogi, K. (2002) 3D Volumetric object perception in binocular vision. Proceedings of ICONIP 2002 pp. 55- 59 pdf
Yanagawa, T., Taya, F. and Mogi, K. (2002) The Spatial Basis of neural representation. Proceedings of the ICONIP 2002, in press pdf
Mitsudo, Y. and Mogi, K. (2002) Real Eye Communicator:An Eye-mediated real world pointing device. Pervasive 2002 (Zurich, Switzerland August 2002) pdf
Nagashima, H. and Mogi, K. SENSORIMOTOR COORDINATION REVEALED IN MICRO-SLIPS. Society for Neuroscience abstracts, to appear. (Orland, November 2002). abstract
Omata, K. and Mogi, K. Time and space in phoneme perception. presented at ASSC6 Barcelona, Spain. June 2002. abstract
Yanagawa, T. , Taya, F. & Mogi, K. Variability and adaptability in the visual system. ECVP 2002 abstract
Mogi, K. (2001) Towards a systematic turn in cognitive neuroscience. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modeling of Human Functions. (ISHF 2001) pp. 67-72.
Mitsudo, Y. & Mogi, K. (2001) Real Eye Communicator:A Pointing Device for Real World Computing. Proceedings of the International Symposium:Toward a Development of KANSEI technology. pp.227-230.
Tamori, Y. and Mogi, K. Stability phase transition in binocular rivalry. Consciousness and Cognition 9, pp.52. (2000)
Taya, F. and Mogi, K. What is salient in binocular rivalry? Consciousness and Cognition 9, pp.53. (2000)
Mogi, K. Supervenience and qualia. Comment on Gold, I. & Stoljar, D. A neuron doctrine in the philosophy of neuroscience. Behavioural and Brain Sciences. 22(5). pp.84-85 (1999)
Mogi, K & Barlow, H B. The source of variability in neural responses from MT. Journal of Physiology (1999), 515.P, 101P
http://www.qualia-manifesto.com/mogibarlowjp515101p.pdf
Mogi, K. (1999) Response Selectivity, Neuron Doctrine, and Mach's Principle.
in Riegler, A. & Peschl, M. (eds.) Understanding Representation in the
Cognitive Sciences. New York: Plenum Press. 127-134. .
PDF file
Mogi, K. (1999). The explicit and implicit in visual awareness. Perception. 28 supplement 140.
Taya, F. & Mogi, K. (1999) Feature-induced spatiotemporal structure in binocular rivalry. Perception. 28 supplement 135.
Tamori, Y. & Mogi, K. (1999) Maximisation of information in binocular rivalry. Perception. 28 supplement 36.
Mogi, K. (1999) Response Selectivity, Neuron Doctrine, and Mach's Principle o be published in Riegler, A. & Peschl, M. (eds.) Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences. New York: Plenum Press. .ps file
Mogi, K. (1999) On the Explicit and Implicit in Visual Awareness. to be presented at ASSC III, June 1999, Ontario, Canada.
Taya, F. & Mogi, K. (1999) Feature Based Properties of Binocular Rivalry. to be presented at ASSC III June 1999, Ontario, Canada.
Tamori, Y. & Mogi, K. (1999) to be presented at ASSC III. June 1999, Ontario, Canada
Mogi, K. & Barlow, H. (1998) The source of variability in neural responses from MT (abstract) to be published in J. Physiol. PDF file .ps file
Mogi, K. (1998) Graphic Transformation Method applied to Asymmetric Neural Networks. Technical Report of IEICE. NC98-23, HIP98-14. p.103-110. PDF file .ps file
Mogi, K. (1997) Qualia and the Brain. Book Published from Nikkei Science, Tokyo. (English version in preparation) Cover of the Book , Synopsis of the Book
Mogi, K. (1997) Response Selectivity, Neuron Doctrine, and Mach's Principle in Perception. The Austrian Society for Cognitive Science Technical Report 97-01. p.76-183.<PDF file>
Mogi, K. & Tamori, Y. (1997) Creativity and the neural basis of Qualia. Proceedings of Mind II conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 1997 (To be published in a book form).PDF file
Mogi, K. (1994) Multiple-valued energy function in neural networks with asymmetric connections. Phys. Rev. E, 49, p.4616-4626.PDF file
Mogi, K. (1994) On the absolute meaning of energy scale ~kT in the thermal interference involved in enzyme coupled reactions. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A, 445, p.529-541.PDF file
Mogi, K. (1993) Graphic Analysis of Coupling in Biological Systems" J.theor.
Biol., 162, p.337-352. PDF
file
Mogi, K. (1993) Involvement
of "Thermal Interference" in the Multiple Working Strokes Per
Hydrolyzed ATP Observed in Muscle Contraction.
Proceedings of
the Japan Academy. Ser. B: Physical and Biological Sciences , Vol. 69
(1993) No. 8 pp.227-232. PDF
file
Contact me at:
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc.
Takanawa Muse Bldg. 3-14-13, Higashigotanda Shinagawa-ku,
Tokyo,141-0022 Japan
Tel +81-3-5448-4380 Fax +81-3-5448-4273
kenmogi@csl.sony.co.jp
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kenmogi.html
Link to http://www.qualia-manifesto.com