Mototaka Suzuki Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of Amsterdam


Peer-reviewed publications

  • Sohn, J., Suzuki, M., Youssef, M., Hatada, S., Larkum, M.E., Kawaguchi, Y. & Kubota, Y. (2022) Presynaptic supervision of cortical spine dynamics in motor learning. Science Advances 8(30):eabm0531 [DOI] NEW
  • Press release in Japanese [WWW]
    Media coverage: covered by 3 outlets including AAAS, MyNavi News
  • Suzuki, M., Aru, J. & Larkum, M.E. (2021) Double-µPeriscope, a tool for multi-layer optical recordings, optogenetic stimulations or both. eLife 10:e72894 [DOI]
  • Preprint in bioRχiv 2021.06.28.450155 [DOI]
  • Bachmann, T., Suzuki, M. & Aru, J. (2020) Dendritic integration theory: A thalamo-cortical theory of state and content of consciousness. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences 1(2):52 [DOI]
  • Aru, J., Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (2020) Cellular mechanisms of conscious processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24(10):814-825 [DOI]
  • Selected for Best of 2020: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (2020) General anesthesia decouples cortical pyramidal neurons. Cell 180(4):666-676 [DOI]
  • Recommended in Faculty Opinions [DOI]
    Invited commentary article in Japanese (ISBN 978-4-7581-2536-9)
  • Aru, J., Suzuki, M., Rutiku, R., Larkum, M.E. & Bachmann, T. (2019) Coupling the state and contents of consciousness. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 13:43 [DOI]
  • Media coverage: covered by 7 outlets including ScienceDaily, AAAS, MedicalXpress and Neuroscience News
  • Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (2017) Dendritic calcium spikes are clearly detectable at the cortical surface. Nature Communications 8:276 [DOI]
  • Selected for Nature Index that tracks top papers.
  • Suzuki, M. & Gottlieb, J. (2013) Distinct neural mechanisms of distractor suppression in the frontal and parietal lobe. Nature Neuroscience 16(1):98-104 [DOI]
  • Featured in "News and Views" of Nature Neuroscience. [DOI]
  • Peck, C.J., Jangraw, D.C., Suzuki, M., Efem, R. & Gottlieb, J. (2009) Reward modulates attention independently of action value in posterior parietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 29(36):11182-91 [DOI]
  • Gottlieb, J., Balan, P., Oristaglio, J. & Suzuki, M. (2009) Parietal control of attentional guidance: the significance of sensory, motivational and motor factors. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 91(2):121-8 [DOI]
  • Suzuki, M., Gritti, T. & Floreano, D. (2009) Active vision for goal-oriented humanoid robot walking. Creating Brain-Like Intelligence 5436:303-313 [DOI]
  • Suzuki, M. & Floreano, D. (2008) Enactive robot vision. Adaptive Behavior 16(2-3):122-8 [DOI]
  • Suzuki, M., Noda, K., Suga, Y., Ogata, T. & Sugano, S. (2006) Dynamic perception after visually guided grasping by a human-like autonomous robot. Advanced Robotics 20(2):233-254 [DOI]
  • Suzuki, M. & Floreano, D. (2006) Evolutionary active vision toward three dimensional landmark-navigation. From Animals to Animats 9:263-273 [DOI]
  • Suzuki, M., van der Blij, J. & Floreano, D. (2006) Omnidirectional active vision for evolutionary car driving. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9:153-161 [DOI]
  • Suzuki, M., Floreano, D. & Di Paolo, E.A. (2005) The contribution of active body movement to visual development in evolutionary robots. Neural Networks 18(5-6):656-65 [DOI]
  • Floreano, D., Suzuki, M. & Mattiussi, C. (2005) Active vision and receptive field development in evolutionary robots. Evolutionary Computation 13(4):527-44 [DOI]
  • Suzuki, M., Floreano, D. & Di Paolo, E. A. (2005) Constraints on body movement during visual development affect behavior of evolutionary robots. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2778-2783 [DOI]
  • Noda, K., Suzuki, M., Tsuchiya, N., Suga, Y., Ogata, T. & Sugano, S. (2003) Robust modeling of dynamic environment based on robot embodiment. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 3565-3570 [DOI]

Conference abstracts

  • Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (postponed) General anesthesia decouples cortical pyramidal neurons. LFP Workshop, August 6-9, Bedlewo, Poland.
  • Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (postponed) General anesthesia decouples cortical pyramidal neurons. NEURONUS 2020 IBRO Neuroscience Forum, December 9-11, Krakow, Poland.
  • Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (postponed) General anesthesia decouples cortical pyramidal neurons. EMBO Workshop on dendritic anatomy, molecules, function, June 27-30, Heraklion, Greece.
  • Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (2018) Wakefulness enhances the denro-somatic coupling of cortical layer 5 pyramidal neurons. Barrels Conference, May 24-25, Göttingen, Germany.
  • Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (2016) Dendritic calcium spikes are clearly detectable at the cortical surface. EMBO Workshop on dendritic anatomy, molecules, function, June 18-21, Heraklion, Greece.
  • Suzuki, M. & Gottlieb, J. (2009) A spatio-temporal window of vulnerability for fast memory consolodation in the parietal cortex. Neuroscience 2009: The 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, October 17-21, Chicago, Ill.
  • Suzuki, M. & Gottlieb, J. (2009) Transition between attention and memory in monkey posterior parietal cortex. HFSP 20th Anniversary and 9th Awardees Annual Meeting, June 1-4, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Suzuki, M. (2008) Visuo-motor coordination in bipedal humanoid robot walking. SIP 2008: The 2008 International Conference on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, December 13-15, Hainan Island, China.
  • Peck, C., Jangraw, D., Suzuki, M. and Gottlieb, J. (2008) Visual plasticity induced by reward associations in monkey lateral intraparietal area (LIP). Neuroscience 2008: The 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, November 15-19, Washigton DC.
  • Suzuki, M. and Floreano, D. (2006) Active vision for neural development and landmark navigation. 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Ascona, Switzerland, pp. 247-248.
  • Floreano, D. and Suzuki, M. (2006) Active vision and neural development in animals and robots. The Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM'06), Trieste, Italy, pp. 10-11.

Dissertations

  • Suzuki, M. (2007) Enactive robot vision. PhD thesis. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Suzuki, M. (2004) Adaptive neural controllers for autonomous outdoor navigation. Master's thesis. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Suzuki, M. (2002) Visually guided grasping of objects by a humanoid robot. Bachelor's thesis. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

Other publlications

  • Suzuki, M. (2014) How Takashi Gomi influenced younger generations. Adaptive Behavior. 22(6):403-5 [DOI]
  • Suzuki, M. (2009) Transition between attention and memory in fronto-parietal cortical network. HFSP Newsletter, No 22.
  • Suzuki, M. and Floreano, D. (2006) Trends in dynamic and embodied cognition. International Neural Network Society Newsletter, 4(2) pp. 9-10


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