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Yukiko Kikuchi is a Researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the NIH. She holds a Ph.D. in Behavioral Science from Hokkaido University (2002) and a B.Sc. in Earth Science from the same institution (1997). Her research focuses on understanding auditory cortical organization and neural mechanisms underlying music perception using non-human primate models. She has collaborated extensively with leading neuroscientists including Mortimer Mishkin (NIMH), Barry Horwitz (NIDCD), and Josef Rauschecker (Georgetown University).
Her work combines electrophysiological techniques, functional imaging, and microstimulation to study auditory processing pathways and vocal region connectivity. Key projects include investigating harmonics representation in auditory cortex and hierarchical processing in the supratemporal plane of macaques.
Publications highlight contributions to auditory neuroscience, with findings presented at major conferences like Society for Neuroscience and the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. Her research bridges basic neuroscience with translational insights into human auditory perception.
