Ryota Kanai CV updates https://kanair-gif.github.io/cv/ Ryota Kanai is a neuroscientist, Founder and CEO of Araya, Inc., and Project Manager of Japan's Moonshot R&D Program, working on consciousness science, artificial intelligence, brain-machine interfaces, and neurotechnology ethics. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:22:11 +0000 A Control-Theoretic Formulation of Global Workspace Theory https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.15926 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.15926 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ryota Kanai, arXiv, 2026 Large-Scale Data Practicalizes EEG-Based Speech Decoding https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-25828-1_13 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-25828-1_13 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Motoshige Sato, Kenichi Tomeoka, Ilya Horiguchi, Kai Arulkumaran, Ryota Kanai, Shuntaro Sasai, Brain-Computer Interface Research, 2026 The Stream of Computation: Temporal Continuity as a Missing Ingredient for Artificial Consciousness https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.33.7.035 https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.33.7.035 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ryota Kanai, Yuwei Sun, Manuel Baltieri, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2026 Active inference for action-unaware agents https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2026.134399 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2026.134399 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Filippo Torresan, Keisuke Suzuki, Ryota Kanai, Manuel Baltieri, Neurocomputing, 2026 Intrinsic Computational Functionalism and Simulated Consciousness https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.15348 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.15348 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ryota Kanai, Shuqin Ma, arXiv, 2026 Intrinsic Computational Functionalism: From Observer-Relative Maps to Observer-Independent Structures https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.06424 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.06424 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Shuqin Ma, Ryota Kanai, arXiv, 2026 What are the Indecomposable Phenomenal Units of Qualia Structures? https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nbxdk_v1 https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nbxdk_v1 Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Ryota Kanai, PsyArXiv, 2026 Canonical Functionalism: Defining Functional Structure without Observer-Relative Semantic Maps https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.21506 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.21506 Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ryota Kanai, Shuqin Ma, arXiv, 2026 Multi-modal Ensemble Approach for Decoding Player Intentions in Table Tennis https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.04.721564 https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.04.721564 Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Trung Quang Pham, Shotaro Shiba Funai, Ryota Kanai, Junichi Chikazoe, bioRxiv, 2026 A Japan-origin motivational framework for diversive and specific curiosity: development of the English version of the Japanese Epistemic Curiosity scale https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1762069 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1762069 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Kazuji Nishikawa, Ryota Kanai, Hiro Taiyo Hamada, Jamie Ward, Takashi Kusumi, Frontiers in Psychology, 2026 Prior preferences in active inference agents: soft, hard, and goal shaping https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.03293 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.03293 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Filippo Torresan, Ryota Kanai, Manuel Baltieri, arXiv, 2025 Meta-representations as representations of processes https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaf038 https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaf038 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Ryota Kanai, Ryota Takatsuki, Ippei Fujisawa, Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2025 Steam-engine naturalism https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m4gk3_v1 https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m4gk3_v1 Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Manuel Baltieri, Ryota Kanai, PsyArXiv, 2025 Principal Bundle Geometry of Qualia: Understanding the Quality of Consciousness from Symmetry https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/agupq_v4 https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/agupq_v4 Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Masafumi Oizumi, Chanseok Lim, Ryota Kanai, PsyArXiv, 2025 Optical Neuroimage Studio (OptiNiSt): Intuitive, scalable, extendable framework for optical neuroimage data analysis https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013087 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013087 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Yutaro Yamane, Yi Li, Keita Matsumoto, Ryota Kanai, Mark Desforges, Carlos E. Gutierrez, Kenji Doya, PLOS Computational Biology, 2025 Remembering Transformer for Continual Learning https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN64981.2025.11227313 https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN64981.2025.11227313 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Yuwei Sun, Ippei Fujisawa, Arthur Juliani, Jun Sakuma, Ryota Kanai, IJCNN 2025, 2025 Decoding Vision Transformers: The Diffusion Steering Lens https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW67362.2025.00470 https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW67362.2025.00470 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Ryota Takatsuki, Sonia Joseph, Ippei Fujisawa, Ryota Kanai, CVPR Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision, 2025 Associative Transformer https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52734.2025.00426 https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52734.2025.00426 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Yuwei Sun, Hideya Ochiai, Zhirong Wu, Stephen Lin, Ryota Kanai, CVPR 2025, 2025 Cybernetic avatars: Teleoperation technologies from in-body monitoring to social interaction https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adg1842 https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adg1842 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Norihiro Hagita, Ryota Kanai, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Kouta Minamizawa, Fumihito Arai, Fumio Shimpo, Takeshi Matsumura, Yoko Yamanishi, Science Robotics, 2024 Design and evaluation of a global workspace agent embodied in a realistic multimodal environment https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2024.1352685 https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2024.1352685 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Rousslan F. J. Dossa, Kai Arulkumaran, Arthur Juliani, Shuntaro Sasai, Ryota Kanai, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2024