Acosta HC, Garcia MM, Andrade-Muñoz M, Kasten MR, Manis PB, Kato HK. (2026) Ascending inputs to inferior colliculus subdivisions reveal pathway-specific hybrid organization in the external cortex. J. Neurosci. in press. [PDF at Preprint Server]

Kline AM, Tsukano H, Mehra M, Schneider GP, Garcia MM, Kato HK. (2026) Large cranial windows distort auditory cortical maps and degrade feature integration in secondary auditory cortex. iScience in press. [PDF at Preprint Server]

Tsukano H, Garcia MM, Dandu PR, Kato HK. (2026) Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses. Nature Neuroscience. 29:888. [PDF at Journal] [PubMed] [PDF at Preprint Server]

Garcia MM, Kline AM, Onodera K, Tsukano H, Dandu PR, Acosta HC, Kasten M, Manis PB, Kato HK. (2025) Noncanonical Short-Latency Auditory Pathway Directly Activates Deep Cortical Layers. Nature Communications 16:5911. [PDF at Journal] [PubMed] [PDF at Preprint Server]

Ortiz-Juza MM, Ung RL, Hegel SM, Ring AL, Miller NW, Garcia-Reyes RA, Nomura H, Kato HK, Pégard NC, Rodriguez-Romaguera J. (2025) Prepronociceptin-Expressing Neurons in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Signal Escape Behavior. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 5:5. [PDF at Journal] [PDF at Preprint Server]

Kline AM†, Aponte DA†, Kato HK. (2023) Distinct nonlinear spectrotemporal integration in primary and secondary auditory cortices. Scientific Reports 13:7658. †Equally contributed. [PDF at Journal] [PubMed] [PDF at Preprint Server]

Narayanan DP†, Tsukano H*†, Kline AM†, Onodera K†, Kato HK*. (2023) Biological constraints on stereotaxic targeting of functionally-defined cortical areas. Cerebral Cortex 33:3293. †Equally contributed. *Corresponding author. [PDF at Journal] [PubMed] [PDF at Preprint Server]

Onodera K and Kato HK. (2022) Translaminar Recurrence from Layer 5 Suppresses Superficial Cortical Layers. Nature Communications 13: 2585. [PDF at Journal] [PubMed] [PDF at Preprint Server]

Kline AM, Aponte DA, Tsukano H, Giovannucci A, Kato HK. (2021) Inhibitory gating of coincidence-dependent sensory binding in secondary auditory cortex.
Nature Communications 12: 4610. [PDF at Journal] [PubMed] [Preprint of an earlier version at bioRxiv]

Aponte DA, Handy G, Kline AM, Tsukano H, Doiron B, Kato HK. (2021) Recurrent network dynamics shape direction selectivity in primary auditory cortex.
Nature Communications 12: 314. [PDF at Journal] [PubMed]

Zhou ZC, Huang WA, Yu Y, Negahbani E, Stitt IM, Alexander ML, Hamm JP, Kato HK, Fröhlich F. (2020) Stimulus-specific regulation of visual oddball differentiation in posterior parietal cortex. Scientific Reports 10: 13973. [PubMed]

Gillet SN, Kato HK, Justen M, Lai M, Isaacson JS. (2018) Fear learning regulates cortical sensory representations by suppressing habituation. Front Neural Circuits 11: 112. [PubMed]

Kato HK*, Asinof SK, Isaacson JS*. (2017) Network-level control of frequency tuning in auditory cortex. Neuron 95: 412-423. *Corresponding author. [PubMed]

Kato HK*, Gillet SN, Isaacson JS. (2015) Flexible sensory representations in auditory cortex driven by behavioral relevance. Neuron 88: 1027-1039. *Corresponding author. [PubMed]

Boyd AM, Kato HK, Komiyama T, Isaacson JS. (2015) Broadcasting of cortical activity to the olfactory bulb. Cell Reports 10:1032-1039. [PubMed}

Kato HK, Gillet SN, Peters AJ, Isaacson JS, Komiyama T. (2013) Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons Linearly Control Olfactory Bulb Output. Neuron 80:1218-1231. [PubMed]

Kato HK†, Chu MW†, Isaacson JS, Komiyama T. (2012) Dynamic sensory representations in the olfactory bulb: modulation by wakefulness and experience. Neuron 76:962-75. †Equally contributed. [PubMed]

Kato HK, Kassai H, Watabe AM, Aiba A, Manabe T. (2012) Functional coupling of the metabotropic glutamate receptor, InsP3 receptor and L-type Ca2+ channel in mouse CA1 pyramidal cells. J. Physiol. 590:3019-34. [PubMed]

Tsuboi A, Imai T, Kato HK, Matsumoto H, Igarashi KM, Suzuki M, Mori K, Sakano H. (2011) Two highly homologous mouse odorant receptors encoded by tandemly-linked MOR29A and MOR29B genes respond differently to phenyl ethers. Eur. J. Neurosci. 33:205-13. [PubMed]

Kato HK, Watabe AM, Manabe T. (2009) Non-Hebbian Synaptic Plasticity Induced by Repetitive Postsynaptic Action Potentials. J. Neurosci. 29:11153-60. [PubMed]