About

Overview

Fumiaki Sato is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Somnology RIKEN Hakubi Research Team, RIKEN. He studies how humans perceive information from the external world and come to recognize what they are seeing. His current work focuses particularly on subjective recognition and sleep, with an interest in how memory, learning, and internal states shape perception. To investigate these questions, he combines psychophysical experiments with EEG, pupillometry, MRI, and computational approaches in cognitive neuroscience.

Current affiliation

Postdoctoral researcher
Cognitive Somnology RIKEN Hakubi Research Team
RIKEN

Research areas

Neuroscience - general
Cognitive sciences

Methods

Psychophysics, EEG, pupillometry, MRI, and computational approaches

Current project

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists: “Examination of sleep-related brain activity that promotes insight in humans” (2025-04 to 2028-03)

Research interests

Sleep Perception Neuroscience Cognition Vision EEG Pupillometry

Research experience

2023-04 to present

RIKEN, Cognitive Somnology RIKEN Hakubi Research Team

Postdoctoral researcher

2021-04 to 2023-03

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Research Fellow (DC2-PD)

Education

2022-06

Ph.D. in Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology

2019-04 to 2022-06

Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology

2017-04 to 2019-03

Master's Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology

2015-04 to 2017-03

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology