YUKI, Shoko

Title Assistant Professor
Email yuki.shoko.fp#@#u.tsukuba.ac.jp (please replace #@# with @)
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Degree Ph.D.
Division Psychology
Research Field Experimental Psychology, Comparative Cognition, Neurophysiology
Undergraduate Program School of Human Sciences, College of Psychology
Graduate School Program (Main) Neuroscience
Graduate School Program (Sub)
Research Themes
  • Neural, developmental, and pathological mechanisms of metacognition in rats: behavioral experiments, electrophysiology, and neural circuit recording
  • Neural mechanisms of behavioral optimization and metacognition in marmosets: behavioral experiments and neural recordings
  • Cognitive and neural mechanisms of metacognition-based behavioral optimization in humans: behavioral experiments, fMRI, and computational modeling
Publications/Major Achievements
  • Nagamura Hidekazu, Onishi Hiroshi, Kobayashi I Kohta, Yuki Shoko, “Implicit Manifestation of Prospective Metacognition in Betting Choices Enhances its Efficiency Compared to Explicit Expression”, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol. 19, March 2025.
  • Yuki Shoko, Nakatani Hironori, Tachibana O Ryosuke, Okanoya Kazuo, “Effective modulation from the ventral medial to the dorsal medial portion of the prefrontal cortex in memory confidence-based behavioral control”, Scientific Reports, Vol. 14, No. 1, May 2024.
  • Yuki Shoko, Sakurai Yoshio, Yanagihara Dai, “Rats adaptively seek information to accommodate a lack of information”, Scientific Reports, Vol. 13, No. 1, September 2023.
  • Yuki Shoko, Okanoya Kazuo, “Rats show adaptive choice in a metacognitive task with high uncertainty”, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, Vol. 43, pp. 109-118, January 2017.
Scientific Membership

Japanese Society for Animal Psychology
Japan neuroscience society

Social and Outreach Activity
Related Links

https://researchmap.jp/Shoko_Yuki?lang=en 
https://trios.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/researcher/0000005285 (Univ. of Tsukuba Researchers Information)