KENTARO ONO

Last Updated :2026/06/04

Affiliations, Positions
Center for Brain, Mind and KANSEI Sciences Research, Assistant Professor
E-mail
onokenhiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Chiba University
  • Niigata University

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Stream segregation reduces the subdivision cost in auditory-motor synchronized tapping, Heliyon, 12, e44319, 20251205
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  2. ★, Exploring the neural underpinnings of chord prediction uncertainty: an electroencephalography (EEG) study, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 14(1), 20240226
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  3. Insula-cortico-subcortical networks predict interoceptive awareness and stress resilience, ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 95, 202405
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  4. Enhancement of visuomotor synchronization by a regular pattern of stimulus presentation, NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS, 786, 202208
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  5. Intertap interval dependence of the subdivision effect in auditory-synchronised tapping, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, 55(11-12), 3391-3401, 202206
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  6. ★, Modulatory effects of prediction accuracy on electroencephalographic brain activity during prediction, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 630288, 2021
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  7. Modality-dependent effect of motion information in sensory-motor synchronised tapping, Neuroscience Letters, 675, 31-35, 2018
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  8. ★, The effect of illusionary perception on mismatch negativity (MMN): an electroencephalography study, Hearing Research, 356, 87-92, 2017
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  9. Trading of dynamic interaural time and level difference cues and its effect on the auditory motion-onset response measured with electroencephalography, Neuroimage, 159, 185-194, 2017
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  10. Motion-induced disturbance auditory-motor synchronization and its modulation by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), European Journal of Neuroscience, 43, 509-516, 2016
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  11. Neural correlates of perceptual grouping effects in the processing of sound omission by musicians and nonmusicians, Hearing Research, 319, 25-31, 2015
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  12. ★, Keeping an eye on the conductor: neural correlates of visuo-motor synchronization and musical experience, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 154, 2015
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  13. Categorical speech perception during active discrimination of consonants and vowels, Neuropsychologia, 64, 13-23
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  14. Neural networks involved in learning lexical-semantic and syntactic information in a second language, Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1209
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  15. Environmental reverberation affects processing of sound intensity in right temporal cortex, European Journal of Neuroscience, 38, 3210-3220
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  16. Effects of regularity on the processing of sound omission in a tone sequence in musicians and nonmusicians, European Journal of Neuroscience, 38, 2786-2792
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  17. Preattentive processing of horizontal motion, radial motion and intensity changes of sounds, Neuroreport, 24, 861-865
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  18. The effect of musical experience on the hemispheric lateralization of musical feature processing, Neuroscience Letters, 496, 141-145
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  19. Roles of the auditory cortex in discrimination learning by rats, European journal of neuroscience, 23, 1623-1632
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  20. Endogenous fluorescence imaging of somatosensory cortical activities after discrimination learning in rats, Neuroimage, 30, 735-744
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  21. Relational discrimination learning between amplitude-modulated sounds in the rat, Neuroscience letters, 342, 171-174
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Publications such as books

  1. 2023/10/19, Book Review: Physiological Influences of Music in Perception and Action by Shannon E. Wright, Valentin Bégel, and Caroline Palmer, Perception, 2023, 10, Others, Single work
  2. 2023/02/01, A Sense of Plausibility in Vision and Music Perception, Asakura Publishing, 2023, 2, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 英語, Tatsuya Yoshizawa, Nicholas E. Scott-Samuel, Haruyuki Kojima, Goro Maekawa, Ute Leonards, Kentaro Ono, Rie Matsunaga, Haruka Shoda, Nobuhiko Asakura, 978-4-254-52035-4
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Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. A multifaceted approach to brain function through cross-species mujsic perception research, Tomoyo Shiramatsu-Isoguchi, Kentaro Ono, Victor Fernandez-Dueñas, Azusa Kamikouchi, The 48th Annual Meeting of Japan Neuroscience Society, 2025/07/26, Without Invitation, English
  2. Contribution of Interoception to Individual Differences in Loneliness: Insights from Questionnaires and Resting-state EEG, Kentaro Ono, Takafumi Sasaoka, 2025/09/05, Without Invitation, Japanese
  3. Middle frontal theta band oscillation reflects the urge to move in groovy rhythm, Kentaro Ono, Kazuki Yamamoto, Takafumi Sasaoka, The 47th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, 2024/07/24, Without Invitation, English
  4. Electroencephalographic study on Bistable Rhythm, Emi Hasuo, Kentaro Ono, Ayumu Matani, ICMPC17-APSCOM7, 2023/08/24, Without Invitation, English, The Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo
  5. Syncopated Brain: Neural substrates of sensation of groove and pleasantness, Kentaro Ono, ICMPC17-APSCOM7, 2023/08/24, Without Invitation, English, The Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Tokyo
  6. Effects of beat on the occurrence of temporal assimilation, Emi Hasuo, Yuu Masuda, Hiroshi Arao, Kentaro Ono, Ayumu Matani, 60th Perceptual Frontier Seminar, 2023/06/13, Without Invitation, English
  7. Effects of perceptual grouping on visuo-motor synchronizated tapping, Kentaro Ono, The 86th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 2022/09/08, Without Invitation, Japanese
  8. Insular response to 1-Hz transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) from human intracranial recordings, Hui-Ling Chan, Tokiko Harada, Masaya Katagiri, Koji Iida, Maro G. Machizawa, Kentaro Ono, Alan R. Fermin, Shigeto Yamawaki, The 45th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, 2022/06/30, Without Invitation, English
  9. Heartbeat evoked potential (HEP) reflects the uncertainty of prediction in musical chord sequence: an electroencephalography (EEG) study, Kentaro Ono, Ryohei Mizuochi, Kazuki Yamamoto, Takafumi Sasaoka, Shigeto Yamawaki, The 45th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, 2022/06/30, Without Invitation, English
  10. Neurobehavioral effects of thermal stimuli to the foot on emotional evaluation of emotion-eliciting pictures, Takafumi Sasaoka, Tokiko Harada, Kentaro Ono, Shigeto Yamawaki, The 44th annual meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, 2021/07/28, Without Invitation, English
  11. Event-related brain potentials reflect an expectation of chord progression, Kentaro Ono, 85th Annual Convention of Japanese Psychological Association, 2021/09/01, Without Invitation, Japanese, Japanese Psychological Association, web
  12. Changes of event-related potentials across chord progression, Kentaro Ono, 2020/10/24, Without Invitation, Japanese
  13. SOA-dependent effects of perceptual grouping on auditory-motor synchronization, Kentaro Ono, Junya Hashimoto, Takafumi Sasaoka, The 84th annual convention of Japanese psychological association, 2020/09/08, Without Invitation, Japanese
  14. Oscillatory brain activity modulated by prediction accuracy of visual imagery, Chan Hui-Ling, Kentaro Ono, Junya Hashimoto, Ryosuke Hiramoto, Takafumi Sasaoka, Shigeto Yamawaki, The 43rd annual meeting of the Japanese Neuroscience Society, 2020/07/29, Without Invitation, English
  15. Effects of perceptual grouping in the brain processing of sounds, Kentaro Ono, The 1st symposium on perception and cognition systems for nature of plausibility, 2019/11/29, With Invitation, English, Research group "Universality and diversity of perceptual and cognitive systems", The institute for Humanities Research, Kanagawa University, Kanagawa University
  16. Effect of musical experience on metrical subdivision of auditory-motor synchronization, Kentaro Ono, Junya Hashimoto, Ryosuke Hiramoto, Takafumi Sasaoka, The 83rd Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 2019/09/12, Without Invitation, Japanese
  17. Effects of ambiguity for event-related potentials during prediction and prediction error of visual stimulus, Kentaro Ono, Junya Hashimoto, Ryosuke Hiramoto, Takafumi Sasaoka, Shigeto Yamawaki, The 42th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, 2019/07/27, Without Invitation, Japanese
  18. Effects of interactions between perceptual grouping by pitch and rhythm on mismatch negativity, 2017/11, Without Invitation, Japanese
  19. Electroencephalographical evidence for early information processing in the illusionary perception of tone sequence, Ono K, Yamasaki D, Altmann CF, Mima T., The 6th conference of the Asia-Pasific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (APSCOM6), 2017/08, Without Invitation, English
  20. The effect of illusionary perception of sounds on mismatch negativity (MMN): an electroencephalography (EEG) study, Ono K, Yamasaki D, Altmann CF, Mima T., 2017/07, Without Invitation, Japanese

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. 2022, 2024
  2. 2016, 2019

Social Activities

History as Peer Reviews of Academic Papers

  1. 2026, Frontiers in Psychology, 2
  2. 2026, European Journal of Neuroscience, 1
  3. 2026, Experimental Brain Research, 1
  4. 2026, Scientific Reports, 2
  5. 2025, Brain and Cognition, 1
  6. 2025, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 1
  7. 2025, Scientific Reports, 2
  8. 2025, Communications Biology, 1
  9. 2025, Neuroimage, 3
  10. 2024, Neuroimage, 1
  11. 2024, Scientific Reports, 1
  12. 2024, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2
  13. 2023, Neuroimage, 1
  14. 2023, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2
  15. 2023, European Journal of Neuroscience, 3
  16. 2022, European Journal of Neuroscience, Others, review, 1
  17. 2022, Current Psychology, Others, review, 2