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• High-level Motion Processing: Computational, Neurobiological and Psychophysical Perspectives(1998), Cambridge: MIT Press.

• Yotsumoto, Y, Sasaki, Y, Chan, P, Vasios, CE, Bonmassar, G, Ito, N, Náñez, Sr., J.E., Shimojo, S, and Watanabe T. (2009) "Location-specific cortical activation changes during sleep after training for perceptual learning. Current Biology",Current Biology, in press 　　　　
• Seitz AR, Kim, D., & Watanabe, T. (2009) "Rewards Evoke Learning of Unconsciously Processed Visual Stimuli in Adult Humans",Neuron, in press
• Yotsumoto, Y. & Watanabe, T.(2008) "Defining a link between perceptual learning and attention",PLoS Biology,6(8):e221
• Tsushima Y, Seitz, A, & Watanabe, T. (2008). "Task-irrelevant learning occurs only when the irrelevant feature is weak", Current Biology, Vol 18, No 12, R516-517
• Yotsumoto, Y., Watanabe, T., & Sasaki, Y. (2008) "Different dynamics of performance and brain activation in the time course of perceptual learning",Neuron, Mar 27;57(6):827-33.
• Tsushima Y, Sasaki Y, & Watanabe T. (2006) "Greater Disruption Due to Failure of Inhibitory Control on an Ambiguous Distractor", Science, 314, 1786-1788.
• Koyama S, Sasaki Y, Tootell R, Andersen G, Matsuura M, & Watanabe T. (2005) "Separate processing of different global motion structure in visual cortex revealed by fMRI", Current Biology, Nov 22, 2027-2032.
• Seitz, A., Yamagishi, N., Werner, B., Goda, N., Kawato, M., Watanabe, T. (2005) "Task specific disruption of perceptual learning", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 14895-14900.
• Seitz, A R., Lefebvre, C., Watanabe, T., & Jolicoeur, P. (2005). "Requirement of high-level processing in subliminal learning", Current Biology, Sep 20, 15(18):R753-5.
• Seitz, A R., Nanez, J., Holloway, S, Koyama, S., & Watanabe, T. (2005). "Seeing what is not there shows the costs of perceptual learning", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 9080-9085.
• Seitz, A R. & Watanabe, T. (2005). "A unified model for perceptual learning", Trends in Cognitive Science, 9, 329-334.
• Sasaki, Y. & Watanabe T (2004). "The primary visual cortex fills in color", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 18251-18256.
• Seitz, A.R. & Watanabe, T. (2003) "Is subliminal learning really passive?", Nature, 422, 36.
• Watanabe, T. et al (2002). "Greater plasticity in lower-level than in higher-level visual motion processing in a passive perceptual learning task", Nature Neuroscience, 5(10):1003-9
• Watanabe, T., Sasaki, Y. & Nanez, J. (2001). "Perceptual learning without perception", Nature,413, 844-848.
• Watanabe et al. (1998) "Task-dependent influences of attention on the activation of human primary visual cortex", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, 95, 11489-11492.
• Redies, C. & Watanabe, T. (1993). "Illusion and view stability", Nature, 363, 119-120.

• Current Opinion of Neurobiology: Cognitive Neuroscience 2007. Editors: Keiji Tanaka & Takeo Watanabe

• Choi, H, Seitz A.R. and Watanabe, T. (2009) "When Attention Interrupts Learning:Inhibitory Effects of Attention on Task-irrelevant Perceptual Learning", Vision Research, in press
• Beer, A., Sasaki, Y. Watanabe, T. & Andersen, G.(2009) "3D Surface Perception from Motion Involves a Tempo-parietal Network", European Journal of Neurosicence, in press
• Beer, A. & Watanabe, T. (2009) "Specificity of auditory-guided visual perceptual learning suggests crossmodal plasticity in early visual cortex", Exp Brain Res, in press
• Tsushima, Y. & Watanabe, T. (2009) "Roles of attention in perceptual learning from perspectives of psychophysics and animal learning", Learning & Behavior, in press
• Choi, H., & Watanabe, T. (2009) "Selectiveness of the exposure-based perceptual learning: what to learn and what not to learn", Learning & Perception, in press
• Seitz, A. & Watanabe, T. (2008) "Is task-irrelevant learning really task-irrelevant?", PLoS One,3(11):e3792. Epub 2008 Nov 24.
• Sasaki, Y. & Watanabe, T. (2008) "Perceptual learning", In Encyclopedia of Perception (B. Goldstein ed, Sage), in press
• Sasaki, Y. & Watanabe, T. (2008) "Types of Learning Curve", Ed. T. Ono, in Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Springer-verlag, in press
• Nishina, S., Seitz, A., Kawato, M., & Watanabe, T. (2007) "Effect of spatial distance to the task stimulus on task-irrelevant perceptual learning of static Gabors", Journal of Vision, Oct 12;7(13):2.1-10.
• Nishina, S., Yazdanbakhsh, A., Watanabe, T. & Kawato, M. (2007) "Depth Propagation Across an Illusory Surface", Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science, and Vision, Apr;24(4):905-10.
• Seitz, A., Nanez, J., Hollaway, S. & Watanabe, T. (2006) "Perceptual Learning of Motion Leads to Faster Flicker Perception", PLoS ONE, Dec 20;1:e28
• Seitz, A., Nanez, J., Holloway, S., Tsushima, Y. & Watanabe, T. (2006). "Two cases requiring external reinforcement in perceptual learning", Journal of Vision, 6(9), 966-973
• Seitz A.R. & Watanabe, T. (2005) "Visual experience can substantially alter critical flicker fusion thresholds", Human Neuropharmacology, 20, 55-60.
• Koyama, S., Harner, A., & Watanabe, T. (2004) "Task-dependent changes of the psychophysical motion-tuning functions in the course of perceptual learning", Perception, 33, 1139-1147
• Mukai, I & Watanabe, T. (2004) Vision Research and Neuroscience. In Modern Psychology (Ed. Haruhiko Shimoyama), Tokyo University Press.
• Yazdanbakhsh A & Watanabe T (2004) "Disparity and illusory contours", Vision Research, 44, 2621-7.
• Nishida S, Sasaki Y, Murakami I, Watanabe T, Tootell RB. (2003) "Neuroimaging of direction-selective mechanisms for second-order motion" J Neurophysiol, 90, 3242-3254.
• Howe, P.D.L. & Watanabe, T. (2003) The energy model versus psychophysics: a conflict resolved. Perception, 32, 415-421.
• Mukai, I. & Watanabe, T. (2001) Differential effect of attention to translation and expansion on motion aftereffects (MAE). Vision Res, 41, 1107-17.
• Mukai, I. & Watanabe, T. (1999). The influence of structure from motion on motion correspondence. Perception, 28, 331-340.
• Watanabe et al. (1998) . Attention-Regulated Activity in Human Primary Visual Cortex. J. Neurophysiology
• Watanabe, T. & Miyauchi, S. (1998). Interactions in visual motion processing: Psychophysical and brain imaging studies. In High-level motion processing- Computational, biophysiological and psychological approaches (Ed. Takeo Watanabe), MIT Press, pp95-114.
• Bressan, P., Spillmann, L., Mingolla, E. & Watanabe, T. (1998). Neon color spreading: a review, Perception, 26, 1353-1366.
• Watanabe, T. (1997) Velocity decomposition and surface decomposition, Vision Research, 37, 2879-2889.
• Watanabe, T. & Cavanagh, P. (1996). Texture laciness, Perception, 25, 293-303.
• Miyauchi, S., Watanabe, T., Sasaki, Y., Takino, R. & Putz, B. (1996). Voluntary attention to the motion of visually perceived object scan specifically activate either V1 or MT. Visualization of Information Processing in the Human Brain, 47, 155-160.
• Watanabe, T. & Nanez, J. E. Sr. (1995). Depth release of illusory contour shape. Vision Research, 35, 2845-2851.
• Watanabe, T. & Cole, R. (1995). Constraint propagation of apparent motion, Vision Research, 35, 2853-2861.
• Watanabe, T. (1995) Orientation and color processing for partially occluded objects. Vision Research, 35, 647-655.
• Watanabe, T. & Cavanagh, P. (1993). Transparent surfaces defined by implicit X junctions. Vision Research, 33, 2339-2346.
• Watanabe, T. & Cavanagh, P. (1993). Surface decomposition accompanying the perception of transparency. Spatial Vision, 7, 95-111.
• Watanabe, T. & Cavanagh, P. (1992). The role of transparency in perceptual grouping and pattern recognition. Perception, 21,131-139.
• Takeichi, H., Watanabe, T. & Shimojo, S. (1992). Illusory occluding contours and surface formation by depth propagation. Perception, 21, 177-184.
• Takeichi, H., Shimojo, S. & Watanabe, T. (1992). Processing levels of neon flank, illusory contours & neon color spreading. Perception, 21, 313-324.
• Watanabe, T., Zimmerman, G.L & Cavanagh, P. (1992). Orientation-contingent color aftereffects mediated by subjective transparent structures. Perception & Psychophysics, 52, 161-166.
• Watanabe, T. & Cavanagh, P. (1992). Depth capture of regions bounded by illusory, chromatic, and texture contours. Vision Research, 32, 527-532.
• Watanabe, T. (1992). Modularity of visual system - interdisciplinary approach. Imago, 3, 322-333.
• Watanabe, T. & Cavanagh, P. (1991). Texture and motion spreading, transparency and the aperture problem. Perception & Psychophysics, 50, 459-464.
• Watanabe, T. & Nagase, E. (1990). The mechanism for illusory contours. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 7, 223-236.
• Watanabe, T. & Takeichi, H. (1990). The relation between color spreading and illusory contours. Perception & Psychophysics, 47, 457-467.
• Watanabe, T. & Sato, T. (1989). Effects of luminance contrast on color spreading and illusory contour in the neon color spreading effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 45, 427-430.
• Watanabe, T. (1988). Effect of irrelevant differences as a function of the relationships between relevant and irrelevant dimensions in the Same-Different task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 132-142.
• Watanabe, T. & Oyama, T. (1988). Are illusory contours a cause or a consequence of apparent differences in brightness and depth in the Kanizsa square? Perception, 17, 513-521.
• Watanabe, T. (1988). Effect of the amount of the irrelevant disparity on different reaction times. Japanese Psychological Research, 30, 132-142.
• Watanabe, T. (1988). Attention to visual dimensions. Mathematical Science, 297, 15-21.
• Watanabe, T. (1987). The mechanism for a visual surface. ITEJ Technical Report, 11, 31-35.
• Watanabe, T. (1984). Model of parallel distributed associative memory. The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 3, 31-40.
• Oyama, T. Watanabe, T. & Funakawa, M. (1983). Effect of test-mask similarity on forward and backward masking of patterns by patterns. Psychological Research, 45, 303-313.