Publications

Selected publications & Conference presentations

Primate Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

  • Kikuchi Y, Uddin M, Veltman JA, Wells S, Morris C, Woodbury-Smith M. Evolutionary constraint genes associated with autism spectrum disorders across 2,054 rhesus macaque genomes. Molecular Autism 16(1), 5, 2025.
  • Woolgar E, Nacef J, Massey D, Slater B, Agayby B, Zhang Z, Poirier C, Witham C, Wells S, Woodbury-Smith M & Kikuchi Y. Primate model of disorders of prediction: Computational modelling of sensory prediction learning and social phenotypic traits in macaques associated with autism. Computational Neuropsychiatry Conference, 2023.
  • Woodbury-Smith M, Massey D, Slater B, Witham C, Wells S & Kikuchi Y. A translational primate model of autism spectrum disorder: phenotypic traits in social and predictive behaviour and patterns of intolerance to mutation in macaque genome. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 2022.

Auditory Sequence Prediction

  • Errington SP, Agayby B, Woolgar E, Morris C, Griffiths TD, Petkov CI, Kikuchi Y. Laminae specific optogenetic perturbation of frontotemporal circuits in macaques. 10th International Workshop on Technologies for Optogenetics and Neurophotonics. Optogen Conference, 2025.
  • Calmus R et al. Structured sequence processing and combinatorial binding: neurobiologically and computationally informed hypotheses. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B.375 (1791), 20190304, 2020.
  • Kikuchi Y et al. Sequence learning modulates neural oscillatory coupling in human and monkey auditory cortex. PLoS Biology15(4): e2000219, 2017. Notable: Selected in the Biggest Hits PLoS Biology in the Media out of 262 articles published in 2017 with >13,000 views and featured in Scientific American
  • Kikuchi Y et al. Evolutionarily conserved neural signatures involved in sequencing predictions and their relevance for language. Curr. Opin. Behav. Sci. 21, 145-153, 2018.
  • Wilson B et al. Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans. Nature Communications 6(1): 1-12, 2015.
  • Attaheri A et al. EEG potentials associated with artificial grammar learning in the primate brain. Brain and Language 148, 74-80, 2015. 
  • Wilson B et al. Auditory artificial grammar learning in macaque and marmoset monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience 33 (48), 18825-188350, 2013.  

Auditory Perception & Memory

  • Berger JI, Gander PE, Kikuchi Y, Petkov CI, Kumar S, Kovach C, Oya H, Kawasaki H, Howard MA, Griffiths TD (2023).Distribution of multi-unit pitch responses recorded intracranially from human auditory cortex. Cerebral Cortex, bhad186.
  • Kocsis et al., Immediate neural impact and incomplete compensation after semantic hub disconnection. Nature Communications. 14(1):6264, 2023.
  • Kim S-G et al. MEG correlates of temporal regularity relevant to pitch perception in human auditory cortex. NeuroImage 249:118879, 2022.
  • Schneider F, Balezeau F, Distler C, Kikuchi Y, Kempen J van, Gieselmann A, Petkov CI, Thiele A, Griffiths TD. Neuronal figure-ground responses in primate primary auditory cortex. Cell Reports 35, 2021.
  • Gander PE, Kumar S, Sedley W, Nourski KV, Oya H, Kovach CK, Kawasaki H, Kikuchi Y, Patterson RD, Howard MA, Griffiths TD. Direct electrophysiological mapping of human pitch-related processing in auditory cortex. NeuroImage 202, 116076, 2019.
  • Kikuchi Y et al. The distribution and nature of responses to broadband sounds associated with pitch in the macaque auditory cortex. Cortex 120, 340-352, 2019.
  • Kikuchi Y et al. Interactions between conscious and subconscious signals: Selective attention under feature-based competition increases neural selectivity during brain adaptation. Journal of Neuroscience 39 (28), 5506-5516, 2019.
  • Schneider F et al. Auditory figure-ground analysis in rostral belt and parabelt of the macaque monkey. Scientific reports 8 (1), 1-8, 2018.
  • Kikuchi-Yorioka Y, Sawaguchi T. Parallel visuospatial and audiospatial working memory processes in the monkey dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience 3, 1075-1076, 2000.

Vocalisation processing & Musicality

  • Fitch WT, Merker B, Morley I, Zuidema W,Trainor L, Patel A, Trehub SE, Becker, J, Hoeschele M, Merchant H, Kikuchi Y, ten Cate C, Grahn J, Rohrmeier M, Peretz I, Vuvan D, Lagrois M-E, Armony J, Gingras B, Fisher SE, Hupkes D, Wiggins G, Scharff C, Tyack P, Huron D, Kursell J. Ed. Honing H. The Origin of Musicality, MIT press, 2018.
  • Banerjee A, Kikuchi Y, Mishkin M, Rauschecker JP, Horwitz B. Chronometry on spike-LFP responses reveals the functional neural circuitry for complex sound processing in auditory cortex. eNeuro 5(3): ENURO.042-17, 2018.
  • Hoeschele M, Merchant H, Kikuchi Y, Hattori Y, Cate C ten. Searching for the origins of musicality across species. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B. 370: 20140094, 2015. 
  • Kikuchi Y, Horwitz B, Mishkin M, Rauschecker JP (2014) Processing of harmonics in the lateral belt of macaque auditory cortex. Front. Neurosci. 8:204, 2014.
  • Kikuchi Y, Horwitz B, Mishkin M (2010) Hierarchical auditory processing directed rostrally along the monkey’s supratemporal plane. Journal of Neuroscience 30 (39), 13021-13030, 2010.

Auditory Pathway & Network

  • Rocchi F et al. Common fronto-temporal effective connectivity in humans and monkeys. Neuron 109: 1-17, 2021.
  • Scott BH, Leccese PA, Saleem KS, Kikuchi Y, Mullarkey MP, Fukushima M, Mishkin M, Saunders RC. Intrinsic connections of the core auditory cortical regions and rostral supratemporal plane in the macaque monkey. Cerebral Cortex 27(1): 809-840, 2017.
  • Scott BH, Saleem KS, Kikuchi Y, Fukushima M, Mishkin M, Saunders RC. Thalamic connections of the core auditory cortex and rostral supratemporal plane in the macaque monkey. J. Comp. Neurology 525(16): 3488-3513, 2017.
  • Petkov CI, Kikuchi Y, et al. Different forms of effective connectivity in primate frontotemporal pathways. Nature Communications 6(1):1-13, 2015.

Animal Welfare

  • Milham M et al. Toward next-generation primate neuroscience: A collaboration-based strategic plan for integrative neuroimaging. Neuron 110:16–20, 2022.
  • Balezeau F, Nacef J, Kikuchi Y, Schneider F, Rocchi F, Muers RS, Fernandez-Palacios O’Connor R, Blau C, Wilson B, Saunders RC, Howard M, Thiele A, Griffiths TD, Petkov CI, Murphy K. MRI monitoring of macaque monkeys in neuroscience: Case studies, resource and normative data comparisons. Neuroimage 230: 117778, 2021.

17 further publications 1998 - 2016