Kota Otani

This paper shows that inner and overt speech have distinct arousal profiles, with inner speech showing reduced pupil dilation under varying cognitive loads.

The paper links spontaneous eye-blink rate in young children to neural development of executive function through prefrontal cortex activation.

This study shows that successful Stroop-like interference control in early childhood is linked to right lateral prefrontal activation, not left frontal regions as previously thought.