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Masami Tatsuno
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Latest papers
Rise and subsequent fall in neuro-behavioral coupling during learning a skilled reaching task is revealed by generative AI.
Communications biology · 2026
Regional variation in cholinergic terminal activity determines the non-uniform occurrence of cortical slow waves during REM sleep in mice.
Cell reports · 2023
Reliable induction of sleep spindles with intracranial electrical pulse stimulation.
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2021 · senior author
Latest funding
- $149,594
Next-generation neural recording platform for the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $198,000
Decoding sleeping brain activity: Integrating experiments and computational neuroscience to elucidate the cognitive benefit of sleep
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $149,480
Replacing a Computer Cluster for Big Biological Data
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
15 publications.
Rise and subsequent fall in neuro-behavioral coupling during learning a skilled reaching task is revealed by generative AI.
Tanabe S, Eckert M, Ryait H, Whishaw IQ, Tatsuno M, Luczak A
Regional variation in cholinergic terminal activity determines the non-uniform occurrence of cortical slow waves during REM sleep in mice.
Nazari M, Karimi Abadchi J, Naghizadeh M, Bermudez-Contreras EJ, McNaughton BL, Tatsuno M, Mohajerani MH
Reliable induction of sleep spindles with intracranial electrical pulse stimulation.
Eckert MJ, Iyer K, Euston DR, Tatsuno M
Assessment of Sleep, K-Complexes, and Sleep Spindles in a T21 Light-Dark Cycle.
Deibel SH, Rota R, Steenland HW, Ali K, McNaughton BL, Tatsuno M, McDonald RJ
Memory reactivation in rat medial prefrontal cortex occurs in a subtype of cortical UP state during slow-wave sleep.
Tatsuno M, Malek S, Kalvi L, Ponce-Alvarez A, Ali K, Euston DR, Gruen S, McNaughton BL
Unsupervised Detection of Cell-Assembly Sequences by Similarity-Based Clustering.
Watanabe K, Haga T, Tatsuno M, Euston DR, Fukai T
Estimation of neural connections from partially observed neural spikes.
Iwasaki T, Hino H, Tatsuno M, Akaho S, Murata N
Reactivation of Rate Remapping in CA3.
Schwindel CD, Navratilova Z, Ali K, Tatsuno M, McNaughton BL
Influence of external inputs and asymmetry of connections on information-geometric measures involving up to ten neuronal interactions.
Nie Y, Fellous JM, Tatsuno M
Long-term recordings improve the detection of weak excitatory-excitatory connections in rat prefrontal cortex.
Schwindel CD, Ali K, McNaughton BL, Tatsuno M
Next-generation neural recording platform for the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience
Principal investigators: Gruber, Aaron
Decoding sleeping brain activity: Integrating experiments and computational neuroscience to elucidate the cognitive benefit of sleep
Principal investigators: Tatsuno, Masami
Keywords: memory consolidation; sleep; cell assembly; memory reactivation; explicit and implicit memory; rem and non-rem sleep; hippocampus; cortex; neural networks; spike timing dependent plasticity
Replacing a Computer Cluster for Big Biological Data
Principal investigators: Tatsuno, Masami
Rebuilding a Mouse Behavioural Neuroscience Facility
Principal investigators: Metz, Gerlinde
Quiescent dependent consolidation of spatial and motor-skill memory: investigation of the neural mechanisms with animal models and computational modelling
Principal investigators: Tatsuno, Masami
MRI upgrades to enable rodent and human research
Principal investigators: Sutherland, Robert
NSERC CREATE in Biological information processing: From genome to systems level
Principal investigators: Sutherland, Robert
Quiescent dependent memory consolidation: memory-trace replay during REM sleep
Principal investigators: Tatsuno, Masami
In vitro electrophysiology equipment for investigating neural dynamics
Principal investigators: Gruber, Aaron
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Artur Luczak and Hardeep Ryait: 2 shared papers
- Artur Luczak and Masami Tatsuno: 2 shared papers
- Masami Tatsuno and Karim Ali: 2 shared papers
- Hardeep Ryait and Masami Tatsuno: 1 shared paper
- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience
- Computing Science
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