Tomoki Fukai

Professional Experience

• 1985 – 1986:  Research Fellow, Waseda University
• 1986 – 1988:  Visiting Fellow, Theoretical Physics Group, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Bombay)
• 1991 – 1999:  Associate Professor, Dept of Electronic Engineering, Tokai University
• 2001 – 2005:  Professor, Brain Science Research Center, Tamagawa University
• 2004 – 2019:  Team Leader, Group Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
• 2007 – 2018:  Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo

Selected Publications

• Toshitake Asabuki, Tomoki Fukai (2020) Somatodendritic consistency check for temporal feature segmentation. Nat Comm, 11(1):1554. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15367-w.
• Tatsuya Haga, Tomoki Fukai (2019) Extended temporal association memory by modulations of inhibitory circuits. Phys Rev Lett, 123(7):078101.
• Chi Chung Fung, Tomoki Fukai (2019) Discrete-attractor-like tracking in continuous attractor neural networks. Phys Rev Lett, 122(1):018102.
• Tomoki Kurikawa, Tatsuya Haga, Takashi Handa, Rie Harukuni, Tomoki Fukai (2018) Neuronal stability in medial frontal cortex sets individual variability in decision-making. Nat Neurosci, 21(12): 1764-1773.
• Naoki Hiratani, Tomoki Fukai (2018) Redundancy in synaptic connections enables neurons to learn optimally. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA 115(29): E6871-E6879.
• Tatsuya Haga, Tomoki Fukai (2018) Recurrent network model for learning goal-directed sequences through reverse replay. Elife, 7:e34171. 
• Jun-nosuke Teramae, Yasuhiro Tsubo, Tomoki Fukai (2012) Optimal spike-based communication in excitable networks with strong-sparse and weak-dense links. Sci Rep, 2(485):1-6.
• Matthieu Gilson and Tomoki Fukai (2011) Stability versus neuronal specialization for STDP: long-tail weight distributions solve the dilemma. PLoS One, 6(10): e25339, 1-18.
• Yoshikazu Isomura, Rie Harukuni, Takashi Takekawa, Hidenori Aizawa, Tomoki Fukai (2009) Microcircuitry coordination of cortical motor information in self-initiation of voluntary movements. Nat Neurosci, 12:1586-1593.
• Y Yazaki-Sugiyama, S Kang, H Câteau, T Fukai, TK Hensch (2009) Bidirectional plasticity in fast-spiking GABA circuits by visual experience. Nature 462 (7270), 218-221.
• Tomoki Fukai (1999) Sequence generation in arbitrary temporal patterns from theta-nested gamma oscillations: A model of the basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loops. Neural Netw, 12:975-987.
• Tomoki Fukai, Shigeru Tanaka (1997) A simple neural network exhibiting selective activation of neuronal ensembles: from winner-take-all to winners-share-all. Neural computation 9 (1), 77-97.
• Masatoshi Shiino and Tomoki Fukai (1993) Self-consistent signal-to-noise analysis of the statistical behavior of analog neural networks & enhancement of the storage capacity. Phys Rev E,48: 867-897.