Is brain research really good for anything? Is brain research really good for anything? Cognitive neuroscience elucidates the mysteries of the human mind and behavior as a combination of information processing (cognitive processes) in the brain. To utilize this research field to address social challenges arising from issues of the mind, researchers from various fields and parties in the field gather to create "collective knowledge" that integrates diverse humanities and natural sciences, and to develop human resources in this field. We welcome your participation in various ways, including organizing research meetings, conducting joint research, and enrolling in graduate school. Upcoming events List 202603.02Event The Boundary of Future Talent Education: The Gap Between Academia and the Field In talent development and educational settings, many educators and researchers likely feel a sense of dissonance—that "practices yielding tangible results" and "research-based ins 202603.06Event SOKAP-connect Sustainable Behavior × Neuroscience Project Results Presentation Meeting SOKAP-connect Sustainable Behavior × Neuroscience Project has advanced research on cognitive processes in human life and social activities. This symposium will present findings on four topics as 202603.07Event A symposium of Japan Second Language Acquisition Research Forum Japan Second Language Acquisition Research Forum (J-SLARF) is a group of researchers in Japan working and collaborating at international levels. Following our success last year, we will once again 202604.14Information University-wide Lecture Series "Horizons of Coexistence with Artificial Superintelligence" Begins under construct 202608.17Event fMRI Data Analysis Workshop 2026 fMRI Data Analysis Workshop Do you find yourself wondering "Where do I even begin?" or struggling to grasp the overall analysis flow after attempting self-study? This workshop is designed t Events List 202602.06Information 48th Research Committee Presentation Contest Organized by the IDAC - 3rd Place Award At the 48th Research Committee Presentation Contest Organized by the IDAC, Sanami Nagata, student of Graduate School of Medicine, presented her research on “The neural basis of decision-ma 202602.06Information Self-evaluation in Social Contexts: How Social Acceptance and Rejection Shape the Self (IDAC Research Encouragement Awards) I am honored to receive a Research Encouragement Award at the 165th IDAC Biennial Meeting. In my award presentation, I introduced a series of studies examining how self-evaluation functio 202602.01Publication Is "Overpacking" Disaster Education Counterproductive? Neuroscientific Assessment of Combining Tsunami Mechanisms and Evacuation Instructions (Publication) Does conveying both the mechanism of a tsunami (the "why") and evacuation instructions (the "what to do") actually enhance the effectiveness of disaster education? While previous r 202512.19Information JSLS 2025 Prize Outstanding Paper Award At the 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS 2025), held on July 12–13, 2025, our presentation paper integrating syntactic priming and fMRI to investigate bilin 202512.18Event Future Talent Sought by Companies: The 3rd Future Talent Research Meeting The theme of the 3rd Future Talent Research Meeting is "Future Talent Sought by Companies." While AI and DX are advancing remarkably today, their momentum is expected to grow even stronger 202511.27Presentation AI Feedback and L2 Anxiety in Real-Time Communication(International Conference Poster)) Generative AI has rapidly become part of second language (L2) learning, yet little is known about how AI-generated feedback affects learners’ emotions and brain activity. In particular, the neur 202511.14Event Language, Testing, and the Brain: A Neurolinguistic Approach to Learning and Assessment How can neuroscience help us understand how languages are learned, used, and assessed? This seminar invited participants to explore the intersection of applied linguistics, testing, and cognitive neu 202510.28Event [Seminar] Gestures, Language & Brain Dynamics How do gestures shape the way we understand and process language in the brain? This seminar invited you to explore the fascinating intersection of gesture, communication, and cognition through t 202510.24Publication How the brain learns meaning-based grammatical rules (Publication) How does the brain learn grammatical rules that are grounded in meaning rather than form? To address this question, we conducted an fMRI study to examine how people learn nominal 202510.16Event [Symposium] Understanding Mind and Society With the rapid development of computational science and psychological theory, researchers now have an increasingly diverse set of tools to explore the human mind and social phenomena. However, new opp 202510.11Event Katahira Matsuri Exhibition: Heart-Racing VR Heights: Discover the Brain’s Astonishing Response Date: October 11, 2025 (Saturday) Event: Katahira Festival 2025 Organizer: Human Brain Science Laboratory (Sugiura Lab) 【Overview】 At this year’s Katahira Festival 2025, the Sugiura Lab pr 202510.10Presentation Effects of Pain Catastrophizing on Pain-Related Resting-State Functional Connectivity(Poster Presentation at International Conference) People experience pain in different ways. These differences are influenced not only by physical factors but also by psychological tendencies such as pain catastrophizing (Pain Catastrophizin 202510.02Event 【Research Group】 The Horizon of Coexistence with Super-Intelligent AI Recent advances in AI intelligence have been remarkable, with the emergence of “general-purpose AI” expected to achieve human-level ‘intelligence’ in various domains, sparking 202509.18Presentation The Effect of Social Pressure on Facial Emotion Recognition in Lonely People and Its Neural Mechanism (ICON2025 Poster Presentation) The direction of the relation between facial emotion recognition and loneliness has been showed to be mixed in the previous literature. However, among those studies, some suggested lonely people actua 202509.17Presentation Social and Embodied Language Learning (Symposium at International Conference) I had the pleasure of co-organizing and presenting at a symposium at ICON 2025 – International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (Porto, Portugal, September 15–20, 2025). On 202509.16Presentation Distinct Neural Substrates of Visceral Expressions of Emotion (Poster Presentation at International Conference/Award-winning) Using fMRI, this study investigated how the neural processing of visceral expressions of emotion (e.g., 'heart fell apart') differs from that of general emotion labels non-specific to the body
