Chie has been fascinated with brain mechanisms and the modelling from both spatial and temporal aspects. Her main reserach interests encompass various perspectives of vision science and motor control, in particular, understanding how humans combine different sensory informaiton to perceive the 3D world and respond to the world. Her interests have also expanded to applied scientific fields such as virtual reality and brain-machine interface in collaboration with her multidisciplinary background.

May 2015    Two new papers published!

Brathwaite, J., Mevorach, C., & Takahashi. (2015). Stimulating the Aberrant Brain: Evidence for Increased Cortical Hyperexcitability from a transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) study of Individuals Predisposed to Anomalous Perceptions.
Cortex, 69, 1-19. DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.03.023   

Brathwaite, J., Marchant, R., Takahashi, C., Dewe, H., & Watson, D. (2015). The Cortical Hyperexcitability Index (CHi): A new measure for quantifying correlates of cortical hyperexcitability. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 20 (4), 330-348. Doi:10.1080/13546805.2015.1040152.   

7 May 2014    Oral Presentation at Annual Conference, The British Psychological Society
Title: Neuroscience and anomalous experience: Cortical hyperexcitability and the out-of-body experience. Takahashi, C. & Braithwaite, J.
Brain Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, University of Birmingham    [Link]

14 Feb, 2014    The new paper now published online in Frontiers in Psychology.

Citation: Takahashi C and Watt SJ (2014) Visual-haptic integration with pliers and tongs: signal “weights” take account of changes in haptic sensitivity caused by different tools. Front. Psychol. 5:109. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00109    [Link]

7 Feb, 2014    The new paper in press in Frontiers in Psychology. The abstract and provisional PDF are available.    [Link]

27 Jan, 2014    A new paper from my PhD research has been accepted for publication at Frontiers in Psychology.

25 Jan, 2014    Chie Takahashi's Home Page just started, although several pages and parts are still under construction.

- multisensory integration
- vision, haptics
- tool use
- psychophysics
- haptic force-beedback devices, virtual environement

- dysfunction of sensory integration
- cortical hyperexcitability
- Pattern-Glare Task
- neruocognitive correlates of hallucinatory experiences
     (including out-of-body experience, depersonalisation)
- psychophysiological responses