Publications

Note: Only English publications are listed.

Original articles

  1. Okabe, S., Suzuki, Y., Fan, Z., Jiang, L., Abe, T.* (2026). Evaluation of the Accuracy of Sleep–Wake Detection by MotionWatch 8 in Healthy Individuals. Sleep and Biological Rhythms (advance online publication). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41105-026-00631-1
  2. Moctezuma, L. A.*, Molinas, M., Abe, T. (2025). From high- to low-density EEG for automatic classification of dream experiences during stage 2 of NREM. Sleep Advances, 6(4), zpaf066.
  3. Suzuki, Y.†, Suzuki, C.†, Suzuki, Y., Kawana, F., Ohigashi, T., Maruo, K., Watanabe, T., Abe, T.* (2025). Effects of Optimal Timed Automatic Awakening from a Short Daytime Nap on Cognitive Performance, Alertness, and Fatigue. Scientific Reports, 15, 37228. (†Co-first authors)
  4. Sato, K., Okabe, S., Suzuki, Y., Abe, T.* (2025). Targeted memory reactivation during REM sleep may selectively enhance the late positive potential amplitude in previously encountered negative images: Preliminary findings. Sleep Advances, 6(2), zpaf034.
  5. Moctezuma, L. A.*, Molinas, M., Abe, T. (2025). Unlocking Dreams and Dreamless Sleep: Machine Learning Classification with Optimal EEG Channels. BioMed Research International, 2025, 3585125.
  6. Suzuki, C.†, Suzuki, Y.†, Abe, T.*, Kanbayashi, T., Fukusumi, S., Kokubo, T., Takahara, I., Yanagisawa, M.* (2025). Mobile Sleep Lab: Comparison of polysomnographic parameters with a conventional sleep laboratory. PLoS One, 20(1), e0316579. (†Co-first authors, *Co-corresponding authors)
  7. Fan, Z.†, Zhu, Y.†, Suzuki, C., Suzuki, Y., Watanabe, Y., Watanabe, T., Abe, T.* (2024). Binaural beats at 0.25 Hz shorten the latency to slow-wave sleep during daytime naps. Scientific Reports, 14, 26062. (†Co-first authors) [The 30th Publication Prize of Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR)]
  8. Moctezuma, L. A.*, Suzuki, Y., Furuki, J., Molinas, M., Abe, T. (2024). GRU-powered sleep stage classification with permutation-based EEG channel selection. Scientific Reports, 14, 17952.
  9. Suzuki, Y.*, Fan, Z., Abe, T. (2024). A preliminary study of factors influencing the occurrence of post-arousal hypersynchrony. Sleep Science and Practice, 8, 17.
  10. Horie, K.†, Miyamoto, R.†, Ota, L., Abe, T., Suzuki, Y., Kawana, F., Kokubo, T., Yanagisawa, M., Kitagawa, H. (2024). An ensemble method for improving robustness against the electrode contact problems in automated sleep stage scoring. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 21894. (†Co-first authors)
  11. Okabe, S.*, Abe, T.* (2023). Subjectively intense odor does not affect dream emotions during rapid eye movement sleep. Scientific Reports, 13, 10442.
  12. Fan, Z., Suzuki, Y., Jiang, L., Okabe, S., Honda, S., Endo, J., Watanabe, T., Abe, T.* (2023). Peripheral blood flow estimated by laser doppler flowmetry provides additional information about sleep state beyond that provided by pulse rate variability. Frontiers in Physiology, 14, 1040425.
  13. Horie, K.†, Ota, L.†, Miyamoto, R., Abe, T., Suzuki, Y., Kawana, F., Kokubo, T., Yanagisawa, M., Kitagawa, H. (2022). Automated sleep stage scoring employing a reasoning mechanism and evaluation of its explainability. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 12799. (†Co-first authors)
  14. Moctezuma, L. A.*, Abe, T., Molinas, M. (2022). Two-dimensional CNN-based distinction of human emotions from EEG channels selected by multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 3523.
  15. Suzuki, Y.*, Kawana, F., Satoh, M., Abe, T. (2021). The abrupt shift to slower frequencies after arousal from sleep in healthy young adults. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 17(12), 2373-2381. [The 27th Publication Prize of Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR)]
  16. Abe, T.*, Mishima, K., Kitamura, S., Hida, A., Inoue, Y., Mizuno, K., Kaida, K., Nakazaki, K., Motomura, Y., Maruo, K., Ohta, T., Furukawa, S., Dinges, D. F., Ogata, K. (2020). Tracking Intermediate Performance of Vigilant Attention Using Multiple Eye Metrics. Sleep, 43(3), zsz219.
  17. Kaida, K.*, Abe, T., Iwaki, S. (2020). Counteracting effect of verbal ratings of sleepiness on dual task interference. Industrial Health, 58(5), 443-450.
  18. Choi, D.*, Sato, T., Ando, T., Abe, T., Akamatsu, M., Kitazaki, S. (2020). Effects of cognitive and visual loads on driving performance after take-over request (TOR) in automated driving. Applied Ergonomics, 85, 103074.
  19. Okabe, S.*, Hayashi, M., Abe, T., Fukuda, K. (2020). Presentation of familiar odor induces negative dream emotions during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in healthy adolescents. Sleep Medicine, 66, 227-232.
  20. Kaida, K.*, Abe, T. (2018). Attentional lapses are reduced by repeated stimuli having own-name during a monotonous task. PLoS One, 13(3), e0194065.
  21. Tanno, S.†, Tanigawa, T.†, Maruyama, K., Eguchi, E., Abe, T., Saito, I. (2017). Sleep-Related Intermittent Hypoxia is Associated with Decreased Psychomotor Vigilance in Japanese Community Residents. Sleep Medicine, 29, 7-12. (†Co-first authors)
  22. Mizuno, K.*, Matsumoto, A., Aiba, T., Abe, T., Ohshima, H., Takahashi, M., Inoue, Y. (2016). Sleep patterns among shift-working flight controllers of the International Space Station: an observational study on the JAXA Flight Control Team. Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 35, 19.
  23. Goel, N.†, Abe, T.†, Braun, M. E., Dinges, D. F.* (2014). Cognitive Workload and Sleep Restriction Interact to Influence Sleep Homeostatic Responses. Sleep, 37(11), 1745-1756. (†Co-first authors) [Editorial: Fisher, S. P., Vyazovskiy, V. V. (2014). Local sleep taking care of high-maintenance cortical circuits under sleep restriction. Sleep, 37(11), 1727-1730.]
  24. Abe, T., Komada, Y., Inoue, Y.* (2012). Short sleep duration, snoring, and subjective sleep insufficiency are independent associated factors for both falling asleep and feeling sleepiness while driving. Internal Medicine, 51(23), 3253-3260.
  25. Abe, T., Inoue, Y., Komada, Y., Hori, T.* (2012). Effect of post-learning sleep versus wakefulness on advantageous decision-making: A preliminary study. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 10(1), 72-74.
  26. Asaoka, S.*, Fukuda, K., Murphy, I. T., Abe, T., Inoue, Y. (2012). The effects of a nighttime nap on the error-monitoring functions during extended wakefulness. Sleep, 35(6), 871-878.
  27. Asaoka, S., Abe, T., Komada, Y., Inoue, Y.* (2012). The factors associated with preferences for napping and drinking coffee as countermeasures for sleepiness at the wheel among Japanese drivers. Sleep Medicine, 13(4), 354-361.
  28. Abe, T.*, Nonomura, T., Komada, Y., Asaoka, S., Sasai, T., Ueno, A., Inoue, Y. (2011). Detecting deteriorated vigilance using percentage of eyelid closure time during behavioral maintenance of wakefulness tests. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 82(3), 269-274. [The 17th Publication Prize of Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR)]
  29. Abe, T., Komada, Y., Asaoka, S., Ozaki, A., Inoue, Y.* (2011). Questionnaire-based evidence of association between sleepiness while driving and motor vehicle crashes that are subjectively not caused by falling asleep. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 9(3), 134-143.
  30. Abe, T., Inoue, Y.*, Komada, Y., Nakamura, M., Asaoka, S., Kanno, M., Shibui, K., Hayashida, K., Usui, A., Takahashi, K. (2011). Relation between morningness-eveningness score and depressive symptom among patients with delayed sleep phase syndrome. Sleep Medicine, 12(7), 680-684. [Editorial: Okawa, M. (2011). Delayed sleep phase syndrome and depression. Sleep Medicine, 12(7), 621-622.]
  31. Komada, Y., Asaoka, S., Abe, T., Matsuura, N., Kagimura, T., Shirakawa, S., Inoue, Y.* (2011). Relationship between napping pattern and nocturnal sleep among Japanese nursery school children. Sleep Medicine, 13(1), 107-110.
  32. Sasai, T.*, Miyamoto, M., Iwanami, M., Abe, T., Matsuura, M., Inoue, Y. (2011). Impaired decision-making in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder. Sleep Medicine, 13(3), 301-306.
  33. Komada, Y.*, Abe, T., Okajima, I., Asaoka, S., Matsuura, N., Usui, A., Shirakawa, S., Inoue, Y. (2011). Short Sleep Duration and Irregular Bedtime Are Associated with Increased Behavioral Problems among Japanese Preschool-Age Children. Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, 224(2), 127-136.
  34. Abe, T., Komada, Y., Nishida, Y., Hayashida, K., Inoue, Y.* (2010). Short sleep duration and long spells of driving are associated with the occurrence of Japanese drivers' rear-end collisions and single-car accidents. Journal of Sleep Research, 19(2), 310-316. [Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation Award]
  35. Nomura, T.*, Inoue, Y., Högl, B., Uemura, Y., Kitayama, M., Abe, T., Miyoshi, H., Nakashima, K. (2010). Relationship between (123)I-MIBG scintigrams and REM sleep behavior disorder in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 16(10), 683-685.
  36. Ogawa, K., Abe, T., Nittono, H., Yamazaki, K., Hori, T.* (2010). Phasic brain activity related to rapid eye movements during REM sleep: Study of ERP and sLORETA. Journal of Sleep Research, 19(3), 407-414.
  37. Komada, Y.*, Nishida, Y., Namba, K., Abe, T., Tsuiki, S., Inoue, Y. (2009). Elevated risk of motor vehicle accident for male drivers with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, 219(1), 11-16.
  38. Ogawa, K., Abe, T., Nittono, H., Yamazaki, K., Hori, T.* (2009). Temporal coupling of rapid eye movements and cerebral activities during REM sleep. Clinical Neurophysiology, 120(1), 18-23.
  39. Abe, T., Ogawa, K., Nittono, H., Hori, T.* (2008). Neural generators of brain potentials before rapid eye movements during human REM sleep: A study using sLORETA. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119(9), 2044-2053. [Cover figure for Clinical Neurophysiology]
  40. Abe, T., Matsuoka, T., Ogawa, K., Nittono, H., Hori, T.* (2008). Gamma band EEG activity is enhanced after the occurrence of rapid eye movement during human REM sleep. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 6(1), 26-33. [The 14th Publication Prize of Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR)]
  41. Matsumoto, E., Tanaka, E.*, Tabe, H., Wakisaka, N., Nakata, Y., Ueda, H., Hori, T., Abe, T., Tanne, K. (2007). Sleep architecture and the apnoea-hypopnoea index in children with obstructive-sleep apnoea syndrome. Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, 34(2), 112-120.
  42. Abe, T., Ogawa, K., Nittono, H., Hori, T.* (2004). Lack of presaccadic positivity before rapid eye movements in human REM sleep. NeuroReport, 15(4), 735-738.

Review papers

Peer-reviewed

  1. Abe, T. (2023). PERCLOS-based technologies for detecting drowsiness: current evidence and future directions. Sleep Advances, 4(1), zpad006.
  2. Abe, T., Mollicone, D., Basner, M., Dinges, D. F. (2014). Sleepiness and Safety: Where Biology Needs Technology. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 12(2), 74-84.
  3. Komada, Y., Asaoka, S., Abe, T., Inoue, Y. (2013). Short sleep duration, sleep disorders, and traffic accidents. IATSS Research, 37(1), 1-7.
  4. Hori, T., Ogawa, K., Abe, T., Nittono, H. (2008). Brain potentials related to rapid eye movements and dreaming during REM sleep: a short review of psychophysiological correlates. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 6(3), 128-138.

Conference papers

Peer-reviewed

  1. Moctezuma, L. A., Ipanaque, F., Molinas, M., Abe, T. (2025). Emotion Recognition Across Wakefulness and Sleep Using High-Density EEG and Machine Learning Techniques. Brain Informatics 2025.
  2. Moctezuma, L. A., Molinas, M., Abe, T. (2025). Sleep Staging with Gradient Boosting and DWT-PSD Features from EEG/EOG Signals. ESANN 2025 proceedings, European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, 323-328.
  3. Sano, F., Kokusho, T., Horie, K., Furuki, J., Suzuki, Y., Abe, T., Kitagawa, H. (2025). Real-time Automatic Detection of Definite-REM Sleep. Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (IEEE ICHI 2025). [IEEE ICHI 2025 Conference Best Paper Award]
  4. Moctezuma, L. A., Suzuki, Y., Furuki, J., Molinas, M., Abe, T. (2024). Enhancing Sleep Stage Classification with 2-Class Stratification and Permutation-Based Channel Selection. 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC).
  5. Moctezuma, L. A., Sato, K., Molinas, M., Abe, T. (2023). Decoding emotion dimensions arousal and valence elicited on EEG responses to videos and images: a comparative evaluation. Brain Informatics 2023.
  6. Moctezuma, L. A., Ipanaque, F., Molinas, M., Abe, T. (2023). Dream emotions identified without awakenings by machine and deep learning from Electroencephalographic signals in REM sleep. Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering.
  7. Moctezuma, L. A., Molinas, M., Abe, T. (2023). EEG-based 5- and 2-class CNN for Sleep Stage Classification. IFAC-PapersOnLine series.
  8. Taniguchi, K.†, Noguchi, T.†, Iizuka, S., Ando, H., Abe, T., Fukui, K. (2023). A New Large-Scale Video Dataset of the Eyelid Opening Degree for Deep Regression-Based PERCLOS Estimation. In: Woo, J., et al. (Eds.), Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14394. Springer, Cham. (†Co-first authors)
  9. Herleiksplass, K. S., Moctezuma, L. A., Furuki, J., Suzuki, Y., Abe, T., Molinas, M. (2023). Automatic sleep-wake scoring with optimally selected EEG channels from high density EEG. Brain Informatics 2023.
  10. Stenwig, H., Soler, A., Furuki, J., Suzuki, Y., Abe, T., Molinas, M. (2022). Automatic Sleep Stage Classification with Optimized Selection of EEG Channels. 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Nassau, Bahamas, 1708-1715. doi: 10.1109/ICMLA55696.2022.00262.
  11. Soler, A., Drange, O., Furuki, J., Abe, T., Molinas, M. (2021). Automatic Onset Detection of Rapid Eye Movements in REM Sleep EEG Data. 11th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems.

Non-peer-reviewed

  1. Abe, T., Nittono, H., Hori, T. (2004). Current sources of the brain potentials before rapid eye movements in human REM sleep. International Congress Series, 1270, 241-244.

Editorial

  1. Abe, T. (2025). Forecasting Psychomotor Vigilance Test Performance from Facial Videos. Sleep, zsaf220.

Books

  1. Abe, T., Goel, N., Basner, M., Mollicone, D., Rao, H., Dinges, D. F. (2015). Integration of sleep need and fatigue mitigation into human system operation. In: Boehm-Davis, D., Durso, F., Lee, J. (Eds.), Handbook of Human Systems Integration. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, pp. 177-191.
  2. Dinges, D. F., Abe, T. (2013). Transportation safety and operator sleepiness: Where biology needs technology. In: International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (Eds.), IATSS Booklet No. 4, Traffic Safety in the Future, Session by IATSS Symposium Department. International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences, Tokyo, pp. 88-120.
  3. Spaeth, A. M., Abe, T., Schneiderman, J. S., Dinges, D. F. (2013). Sleep Restriction. In: Kryger, M. H., Avidan, A. Y., Berry, R. B. (Eds.), Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Second Edition. Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, pp. 98-104.