A co-authored paper by Project Professor Yukie Nagai has been published in Brain and Development. In collaboration with Dr. Makoto Wada and colleagues at the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, the study investigated visual search behavior and related brain activity in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The results showed that, despite having visual cognitive abilities comparable to typically developing individuals, individuals with ASD exhibited differences in how they systematically organized and controlled visual search, as well as in prefrontal cortex activity.
- Koji Yano, Akira Yasumura, Jungpil Shin, Yukie Nagai, Makoto Wada, “Characteristics of visual search and prefrontal brain activity in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: functional near-infrared spectroscopy study,” Brain and Development, 48(6):104609, December 2026.
[10.1016/j.braindev.2026.104609]