Publications

  1. Tadashi Yamazaki, Jun Igarashi, Hiroshi Yamaura. Human-scale brain simulation via supercomputer: a case study on the cerebellum. Neuroscience, 462:235-246, 2021.
  2. Hiroshi Yamaura, Jun Igarashi, Tadashi Yamazaki. Simulation of a Human-Scale Cerebellar Network Model on the K Computer. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 14, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2020.00016, 2020.
  3. Benoît Girard, Jean Lienard, Carlos Enrique Gutierrez, Bruno Delord, Kenji Doya. A biologically constrained spiking neural network model of the primate basal ganglia with overlapping pathways exhibits action selection. European Journal of Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14869, 2020.
  4. Jan Morén, Jun Igarashi, Osamu Shouno, Junichiro Yoshimoto, Kenji Doya. Dynamics of basal ganglia and thalamus in parkinsonian tremor. Cutsuridis V, Multiscale Models of Brain Disorders, Spriinger pp13-20. https://doi.org/978-3-030-18830-6_2, 2019.
  5. Jun Igarashi, Hiroshi Yamaura, Tadashi Yamazaki. Large-scale simulation of a layered cortical sheet of spiking network model using a tile partitioning method. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, Accepted (2019/11/12).
  6. Skibbe Henrik, Reisert Marco, Nakae Ken, Watakabe Akiya, Hata Junichi, Mizukami Hiroaki, Okano Hideyuki, Yamamori Tetsuo, Ishii Shin. PAT: Probabilistic axon tracking for densely labeled neu-rons in large 3D micrographs. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 38(1):69-78, 2019.
  7. Jakob Jordan, Tammo Ippen, Moritz Helias, Itaru Kitayama, Mitsuhisa Sato, Jun Igarashi, Markus Diesmann and Susanne Kunkel. Ex-tremely Scalable Spiking NeuronalNetwork Simulation Code: From　Laptops to Exascale, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 10.3389/fninf.2018.00002.
  8. Hiroshi Yamaura, Tadashi Yamazaki, Cerebellum, AI Dictionary (3rd ed.) (in Japanese), Kindai Kagakusha, 2019.
  9. Osamu Shouno, Yoshihisa Tachibana, Atsushi Nambu, Kenji Doya. Computational model of recurrent subthalamo-pallidal circuit for generation of parkinsonian oscillations, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 11, 21, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2017.00021, 2017.

Awards

  1. Jun Igarashi, Tadashi Yamazaki, Hiroshi Yamaura. OCNS*2019 Trainee Poster Competition Award, CNS2019, July 13-17, 2019.
  2. Fu, X. Poster Award Engineering Prize, RIKEN Summer School 2019, Octber 7-8, 2019.
  3. Shi L . Poster Award Engineering Prize, RIKEN Summer School 2019, Octber 7-8, 2019.
  4. Kenji Doya, Research Awards, Japanese Neural Network Society, 2019.
  5. Kenji Doya. Donald O. Hebb Award, International Neural Network Society, 2018.

Symposium

  1. Tadashi Yamazaki, Jun Igarashi. Symposium “How a supercomputer accelerates neuroscience: towards the exaflops era”. The 41st Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, July 26-29, 2018, Kobe.

Outreach

  1. Tadashi Yamazaki, Jun Igarashi. Introduction to high-performance neurocomputing. Tutorial T-7, Computational Neuroscience (CNS*2019) Barcelona, July 13-17, 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
  2. Tadashi Yamazaki. Tutorial: Introduction of high-performance computing for neuroinformatics. Advances in Neuroinformatics 2017 (AINI2017), November 20-21, 2017, RIKEN, Wako.

Major Conference Presentations
Computational Neuroscience (CNS*2019) July 13-17 2019, Barcelona, Spain

  1. Igarashi J, Yamazaki T, Yamaura H. Parallel computing of a cortico-thalamo-cerebellar circuit using tile partitioning parallelization method by MONET simulator.
  2. Gutierrez CE, et al. A whole-brain spiking neural network model linking basal ganglia, cerebellum, cortex and thalamus.
  3. Morteza H, Sun Z, Igarashi J. Hierarchy of inhibitory circuit acts as a switch key for network function in a model of the primary motor cortex.
  4. Sun Z, Morteza H, Igarashi J. Spatially organized connectivity for signal processing in a model of the rodent primary somatosensory cortex.
  5. Yamaura H, Igarashi J, Yamazaki T. Building a spiking network model of the cerebellum on K computer using NEST and MONET simulators

The 48th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2018), November 3-7 2018, San Diego, USA

  1. Igarashi J, Yamazaki T, Yamaura H. Parallel computing of a spiking neural network model of layered cortical sheet consisting of multiple regions with long-range connections.
  2. Lienard J, Girard B, Doya K. Examination of the roles of basal ganglia afferents in action selection and learning by spiking neuron models.
  3. Watakabe A, et al., Prefrontal projection mapping of the common marmoset.
  4. Yamazaki T, Yamaura H, Igarashi J. Implementation and simulationof a cerebellar model on a tile-based general spiking neural networksimulator for K supercomputer.

Misc

  1. Tadashi Yamazaki, Tomoya Hirayama, Taiki Yamada, Rin Kuriyama, Jun Igarashi. Distributed brain-body closed-loop simulation using Supercomputer Fugaku. JNSS2021, July 28-31, 2021, Kobe (Hybrid).
  2. Carlos Enrique Gutierrez, Zhe Sun, Hiroshi Yamaura, Heidarinejad  Morteza, Jun Igarashi, Tadashi Yamazaki, Kenji Doya. Simulation of resting-state neural activity in a loop circuit of the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum, and thalamus using NEST simulator. JNNS2020.
  3. Gutierrez C. Large-scale simulation of a spiking neural network model consisting of cortex, thalamus, cerebellum and basal ganglia on K computer. NEST conference 2019, Norway.
  4. Jun Igarashi. Parallelization method of cortico-thalamo-cerebellar circuits toward exascale computing. Neuromodulator of neural microcircutis NM2, 2019, Champery, Switzerland.
  5. Jun Igarashi, Hiroshi Yamaura, Tadashi Yamazaki. Introduction of large-scale neural network simulations in the project for a next-generation supercomputer in Japan. 4th EU-Japan workshop on Neurorobotics, 2019, Tokyo.
  6. Kotone Itaya, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Masaru Tomita, Koichi Takahashi.BriCA Kernel: Cognitive Computing Platform for Large-scale Distri-buted Memory Environments. JNNS2018, October 26, 2018, OIST, Okinawa
  7. Yamakawa H, Arakawa N, Takahashi K. Reinterpreting the cortical circuit. Architectures for Generality & Autonomy Workshop, August 15-20 2017, Melbourne, Australia.
  8. Sei Ueno, Masahiko Osawa, Michita Imai, Tsuneo Kato, Hiroshi Yamakawa. Re:ROS”: Prototyping of Reinforcement Learning Environ-ment for Asynchronous Cognitive Architecture. 2017 Annual Intern-ational Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures: Eighth Annual Meeting of the BICA Society (BICA 2017), Moscow, Russia.
  9. Jun Igarashi. Parallelization of a spiking neural network model of layered cortical sheet consisting of multiple cortical regions. NOLTA2017, December 2017, Cancún, Mexico.
  10. Itaya K, Takahashi K, Nakamura M, Koizumi M, Arakawa N, Tomita M, Yamakawa H. BriCA: A modular software platform for whole brain architecture. Neural information processing – 23rd international conference (ICONIP2016), October 16-21 2016, Kyoto.