Articles in Journals
Yuji Kawai , Yukie Nagai, and Minoru Asada, Prediction error in the PMd as a criterion for biological motion discrimination: A computational account , IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems , available online.Yuji Kawai , Yuji Oshima, Minoru Asada, Errors in children’s speech originating from undifferentiated grammatical categories: A model for over-production of an English past-tense morpheme and a Japanese case particle , Cognitive Studies , Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 52-66, 2017 (in Japanese).Yuji Kawai , Yuji Oshima, Yuki Sasamoto, Yukie Nagai, and Minoru Asada, A model for syntactic development of children: Acquisition processes of syntactic categories reflecting structures of Japanese, English, and Chinese languages , Cognitive Studies , Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 475-479, 2015 (in Japanese).Noriaki Kouda, Yuji Kawai , Nobuyuki Matsui, RCE Neural Network with a RBF Output Function and Its Performance , Transactions on the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol. 45, No. 11, pp. 620-627, 2007 (in Japanese).
Peer-Reviewed International Conferences (Full Paper)
Kazuki Tachikawa, Yuji Kawai , Jihoon Park, and Minoru Asada, Effectively interpreting electroencephalogram classification using the Shapley sampling value to prune a feature tree, In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks , accepted, Oct. 2018. Yuji Kawai , Tomohiro Takimoto, Jihoon Park, and Minoru Asada, Efficient reward-based learning through body representation in a spiking neural network, In Proceedings of the 8th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics , pp. 198-203, Sep. 2018. (Babybot Challenge Paper Award) Yuji Kawai , Tatsuya Tokuno, Jihoon Park, and Minoru Asada, Echo in a small-world reservoir: time-series prediction using an economical recurrent neural network , In Proceedings of the 7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics , pp. 126-131, Sep. 2017.Tomohiro Takimoto, Yuji Kawai , Jihoon Park, and Minoru Asada, Self-organization based on auditory feedback promotes acquisition of babbling , In Proceedings of the 7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics , pp. 120-125, Sep. 2017. (Babybot Challenge Participation Award) Koki Ichinose, Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai , Junichi Suzuki, Minoru Asada, and Hiroki Mori, Local over-connectivity reduces the complexity of neural activity: toward a constructive understanding of brain networks in patients with autism spectrum disorder , In Proceedings of the 7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics , pp. 233-238, Sep. 2017. Yuji Kawai , Minoru Asada, and Yukie Nagai, A model for biological motion detection based on motor prediction in the dorsal premotor area , In Proceedings of the 4th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics , pp. 241-247, Oct. 2014.Yuji Kawai , Yuji Oshima, Yuki Sasamoto, Yukie Nagai, and Minoru Asada, Computational model for syntactic development: Identifying how children learn to generalize nouns and verbs for different languages , In Proceedings of the 4th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics , pp. 78-84, Oct. 2014.Yuji Kawai , Yukie Nagai, and Minoru Asada, Perceptual development triggered by its self-organization in cognitive learning , In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , pp. 5159-5164, Oct. 2012. Yuji Kawai , Jihoon Park, Takato Horii, Kazuaki Tanaka, Hiroki Mori, Yukie Nagai, Takashi Takuma, and Minoru Asada, Throwing skill optimization through synchronization and desynchronization of degree of freedom , In Proceedings of the 16th Annual RoboCup International Symposium , Jun. 2012. (Best Paper Award Finalist, Research Award of the RoboCup Japan Open) Yukie Nagai, Yuji Kawai , and Minoru Asada, Emergence of mirror neuron system: Immature vision leads to self-other correspondence , In Proceedings of the 1st Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics , Aug. 2011. (Microsoft Student Travel Award)
Peer-Reviewed International Conferences (Short Paper / Abstract)
Tomohiro Miki, Yuji Kawai , Jihoon Park, and Minoru asada, Intrinsically bursting neurons enlarge timescales of fluctuations in firing rates , In the 27th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting , Jul. 2018. Motohiro Ogura, Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai , and Minoru Asada, An excitation / inhibition ratio impacts on organization of neural connectivity and information transfer , In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting , Jul. 2018. Ichiro Tsuda, Minoru Asada, Yuji Kawai , Mitsuru Kikuchi, Ikki Matsuda, and Tatsuya Kameda, An exploration of the principle of emerging interactions in spatiotemporal diversity , In Proceedings of the IUI Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction and Harmonious Collaboration for Wisdom Computing , Mar. 2018. Koki Ichinose, Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai , Junichi Suzuki, Hiroki Mori, and Minoru Asada, Why does neural activity in ASD have low complexity?: from a perspective of a small-world network model , In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computational Neurosciences Meeting , Jul. 2017. Jimmy Baraglia, Yukie Nagai, Yuji Kawai , and Minoru Asada, The role of temporal variance in motions for the emergence of mirror neuron systems , In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics , Nov. 2012.
Books
Yuji Kawai , Jihoon Park, Takato Horii, Yuji Oshima, Kazuaki Tanaka, Hihorki Mori, Yukie Nagai, Takashi Takuma, and Minoru Asada, Throwing Skill Optimization through Synchronization and Desynchronization of Degree of Freedom , RoboCup 2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 7500, pp. 178-189, Springer, 2013.
Invited Talks
Symposiums & Others
Yuji Kawai , Jihoon Park, and Minoru Asada, A small-world topology enhances the echo state property of partially connected recurrent networks , The 1st International Symposium on Systems Intelligence Division , Jun. 2018.Park Jihoon, Yuji Kawai , and Minoru Asada, Neural representation of behavioral transitions emerged from an oscillator network , The 1st International Symposium on Systems Intelligence Division , Jun. 2018. Kazuki Tachikawa, Yuji Kawai , Jihoon Park and Minoru Asada, Pruning a feature tree for effective estimation of the Shapley value to interpret black-box predictions , The 1st International Symposium on Systems Intelligence Division , Jun. 2018. Minoru Asada, Yuji Kawai , Komatsu Nishigai, and Tatsuhiko Inatani, Legal being: How can artificial systems be qualified as legal personhoods in a future “NAJIMI” (symbiotic and harmonized) society? , In ICDL-EpiRob 2017 Workshop, Ethical Issues of Open Ended-Learning in Autonomous Robots , Sep. 2017. Tomohiro Takimoto, Yuji Kawai , Jihoon Park, and Minoru Asada, Babbling emerges from rhythmical neural activities through STDP , The 3rd International Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics: Toward Constructive Developmental Science , Dec. 2016. Koki Ichinose, Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai , Junichi Suzuki, Hiroki Mori, and Minoru Asada, Dynamical complexity in small world network: emergence of gamma oscillation from the structure of spiking neural network , The 3rd International Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics: Toward Constructive Developmental Science , Dec. 2016. Yuji Kawai , Yuji Oshima, Yuki Sasamoto, Yukie Nagai and Minoru Asada, A Bayesian model for syntactic development: How do children generalize nouns and verbs in Japanese, English, and Chinese? , In ICIS 2014 Pre-Conference, Computational Models of Infant Development , Jul. 2014.Yuji Kawai , Yukie Nagai, and Minoru Asada, Maturational constraints lifted by self-organization in perceptual space for cognitive learning , Bielefeld-Osaka Workshop 2012 , Mar. 2012.Yuji Kawai , Takato Horii, Ryo Ninomiya, Jihoon Park, Yuki Fukushima, Dai Hirose, Ryuhei Sumita, Yuji Okuyama, Tomoki Kashima, Hiroki Mori, and Minoru Asada, JEAP Team Description , RoboCup 2012 Humanoid League Team Description Paper , Jun. 2012.Yuji Kawai , Yukie Nagai, and Minoru Asada, Self-other confusion caused by undifferentiated visual perception: A clue to the understanding of others’ action , International Workshop for Young Researchers “Knowing Self, Knowing Others” , Jun. 2011.