PublicationsBooks & Reviews

This page presents books as well as review and commentary articles authored or co-authored by Tsuyoshi Okamoto. Unlike peer-reviewed original research articles, these works organize research findings conceptually, connect perspectives across fields, and translate scientific insights into broader academic, educational, and societal contexts. The laboratory’s research has developed within an integrated framework linking fundamental studies of sensation and cognition, field neuroscience, intervention and plasticity research, and the neural basis of future-oriented thinking. The works listed here clarify the conceptual and intellectual foundations that support Future Brain Science.

I. Books

Single-author Book

2024: Tsuyoshi Okamoto: Neuroscience of Bonfires: Why Humans Are Fascinated by Fire. Kyushu University Press, 248 pages, March 20, 2024.
Selected as reading material for the 2025 Special Entrance Examination (Japanese Language) of Okayama Prefectural Public High Schools.

Contributed Volumes

2017: Masayuki Hamakawa, Tsuyoshi Okamoto: Measurement Methods of Physiological Data Related to Human Olfaction, in Practical Methods for Utilizing Biosignals in Product Development. Johokiko Co., Ltd., March 2017.
2012: Tsuyoshi Okamoto (ed. by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence): Neural Networks, in Encyclopedia of Simulation, Vol. IV: Human and Social Systems. Corona Publishing Co., February 2012.
2009: Tsuyoshi Okamoto (supervised by Toyoki Kunitake): Self-Organization in the Visual Cortex, in Handbook of Self-Organization (Basic Edition), pp.392–396. NTS Inc., November 2009.

II. Review & Commentary Articles

These publications provide theoretical overviews, interdisciplinary syntheses, and broader perspectives connecting neuroscience with society, technology, and human well-being.

2025: Tsuyoshi Okamoto: Smell, Mind, and Society. Kagaku, June 2025 issue.
2023: Tsuyoshi Okamoto: Impacts of Fragrance Exposure from a Neuroscience Perspective. Kurashi to Kyodo, No.46, 32–39, 2023.
2020: Tsuyoshi Okamoto: Understanding Human Olfaction Through Brain Science. Koryo, No.287, 2020.
2019: Tsuyoshi Okamoto: Classification and Interpretation of Odor-related Issues. Kenko Kyoshitsu, July issue, 2019.
2018: Tsuyoshi Okamoto: Neuroscience of Olfaction. Aroma Research, Vol.19, No.4, 2018.
2015: Tsuyoshi Okamoto: Visual Field Map. Brain Science Dictionary, 2015. (DOI: 10.14931/bsd.1267)
2012: Tsuyoshi Okamoto: Structure and Function of the Primary Visual Cortex: A New Hypothesis on Pinwheel Organization and Orientation Detection. Image Laboratory (Gazou Lab), December 2012 issue.; Kuniyoshi Shimizu et al.: Physiological Effects of Wood Fragrances. Aroma Research, 13(3), 202–208, 2012.; Tsuyoshi Okamoto, Koji Ikezoe: Brain Science Up Date. Brain 21, Vol.15, No.2, 140–144, 2012.
2011: Tsuyoshi Okamoto: Let’s Talk About the Future of Biomedical Engineering. Japanese Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 49(2), 402–403, 2011.
2007: Tsuyoshi Okamoto, Shozo Tobimatsu: Cognitive Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 22(2), 195–200, 2007.

First published: August 13, 2014.
Major revision: February 21, 2026.
Last updated: April 17, 2026.