Tohoku University Cognitive Neuroscience Application Center

Assistant Professor,Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences / Research Institute of Electrical Communication
How do we perceive “self-image”?
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We naturally perceive and evaluate ourselves, however, it is not always accurate.
For example, people with anorexia tend to think they are overweight even though they are underweight.
My aim is to uncover perception and recognition mechanisms related to "self-image" and "body-image" through psychophysical and fMRI studies.

Assistant Professor, Institute of Development, International Research Institute of Disaster and Sciences
Psychology of visual behaviours
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I am interested in memory of natural scenes and objects.
Recently I started a fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) research.
I hope to study "memory of vision" which includes not only perceptual features (e.g. shapes, colours, spatial arrays and so on) but also cognitive information (semantics and so on).

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering
Leveraging and Enhancing Human Contributions
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The safe and continuous functioning of complex systems that support our society such as aviation, railways, electricity, and healthcare, is ensured by the contributions of operator personnel. By revealing and empowering the roles and capabilities of humans lying behind “nothing happened today” or “things went well”, we aim to realize safer systems and society.

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management
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Through data analytics, I am exploring methods to utilize individual characteristics and values to solve social problems.

Professor, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Language Learning and Communication
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Lecturer, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer 
Reconsidering disability from cognitive neuroscience
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Experiences influence the maturation of the brain. Then, the brain of a person with a disability should not only be characterised by reduced function leading to difficulties in life, but should also reflect their unique life. Furthermore, through the study of disability, we could also see how the brains of people without disability can become similar. Through cognitive neuroscience based on these question, I hope to reconsider the perspective of brain-induced disability.

Assistant Prof., IDAC, Dept. Human Brain Science,
Leading Researcher, Riga Stradins University

"Reading the room" in Cognitive Science

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We have the ability to read the room. I.e., we can subconsciously recognize a person in a bad mood in our daily conversations.
I am interested in the mechanisms of how we catch signals and process them to read the room from the multidimensional perspective as cognitive science, psychology, and computer science.

 

Associate Professor,Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine
Perinatal Mental Health × Neuroscience
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Bonding (the emotional bond from parent to child) and parent-child interactions are formed by a complex interplay of biological, psychological, and sociological factors. The mechanisms, including gender differences, are not yet clearly understood. We will explore the neurological bases related to parental emotions and cognition in the early postpartum period and the formation process of bonding, and aim to generate evidence that leads to family well-being.

Professor, Graduate School of Law
consumer law/judicial politics/business law
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Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Letters
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I educate chaplains, and my speciality is spiritual care, religious care, and grief care. The stress-reducing effect of listening to sutras has been proven, but the mechanism needs to be elucidated.

Senior Lecturer,Graduate school of Education
Human, Society, Brain, and Kokoro

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https://www.ito-ayahito-lab.com/
Shed movement in Japan

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering
Pursuing “Medical systems that physicians truly need.
For medical staffs, the difficulty to use medical systems is increasing, while the performances of them are improving continuously. To solve this problem, I work for construction of “medical systems that maximize the skills of medical staffs” based on biometrics as a major tool for design, development, and evaluation of systems.
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Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Economics and Management

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Research focuses on various applications of deep learning theory and models.

Senior Lecturerer, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Second Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Learning, TESOL
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  Sciences/ Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer

Well-being through goal achievement support tailored to diverse personalities. And
communities for wellbeing with a focus on children, women, and the elderly

https://neurocog.is.tohoku.ac.jp/

The objective of our laboratory is to develop effective techniques for personalized support that encourage behavioral change and promote brain plasticity in individuals pursuing their goals. This includes acquiring new skills, mastering learning, and maintaining healthy behaviors. Our plan is to establish predictive models that can visualize and characterize diverse individuals based on brain structural differences and biological information. These models will be constructed using machine learning and deep learning on multimodal images obtained from functional brain imaging, such as MRI. Our objective is to apply biometric information, IoT technology, and behavioral economics theory to create an optimization-goal achievement support system.Furthermore, it pursues building a community that promotes the well-being of children, women, and the elderly in an aging society with a declining birthrate. Our goal is to establish a "WELL Community," a community where individuals who believe in the importance of looking after children can come together to learn and support one another in achieving a state of well-being that encompasses mental and physical health, happiness, and a sense of accomplishment.  

Associate Professor, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer Understanding complex biological phenomena using multi-omics analysis　Laboratory Website

Associate Professor,Graduate school of Education
Bridging Subjectivity and Objectivity to Explore an Old yet New Way of Learning
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When we acquire a skill or gain an insight, if it proves valuable, we naturally wish to share the method with others so they too can put it into practice. This is perhaps the most fundamental model of teaching and learning. If the skill is swimming, for example, both teacher and learner can demonstrate their technique to each other to confirm it is being performed correctly. But what if the subject is something internal and invisible, like "thinking" or "concentration"? How then can we verify the skill has been acquired? To address this challenge, we seek to connect subjective descriptions using language and physical expressions with objective measurements such as brain activity. Our goal is to discover learning methods that are easy for the practitioner to implement and for others to understand.

Professor,Tohoku Institute of Technology
Reduce human disappointment.
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In human society, there are various types of 'disappointments'. For instance, lamentable systems that cause human errors, and unfortunate communications that lead relationships in undesirable directions. Utilizing neuroimaging, we aim to clarify the mechanisms behind these disappointing circumstances and strive to reduce disappointment in human society.

Professor, Research Institute of Electrical Communication 
Director, Interdisciplinary ICT Research Center for Cyber and Real Spaces.
Conducting research on interactive content, XR, and nonverbal information communication.
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Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Letters
Astronomy is the science of space. Geology is the science of the earth. Similarly, psychology is one of the sciences of human nature.
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In contrast to brain science, which focuses on the structure of the hardware (brain), psychology is a science that focuses on the applications that run on the hardware. I hope that they will develop in a complementary manner.

Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer / International Institute of Disaster Sciences, Professor
Know your brain. Make the world better.
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How is the ‘human’ mind, behavior, and society realized in the brain? We are developing "human brain science" to unravel its secret. Utilizing function neuroimaging, physiological and behavioral measurements, and social surveys, we aim to become a "hub" that connects all disciplines related to humanity from basic to applied.