Naoya Oishi

Aberrant salience is selectively associated with ventral midbrain connectivity to the dorsal but not ventral striatum

The dorsal midbrain-striatal dopaminergic stream encodes salience in animals, while it’s unknown in humans. The midbrain-striatal dopaminergic hyperactivity is postulated to attribute aberrantly-heightened salience to ordinary stimuli, forming delusion and hallucination. While an...

Neural Assimilation and Accommodation in Trilinguals: An fMRI Study at 7 T

Understanding how multiple languages are represented in the multilingual brain is critical to theories of multilingual assimilation and accommodation. Whether a second language (L2) recruits native-like networks (assimilation) or engages additional neural resources (accommodation...