Know your brain. Make the world better.
Motoaki SUGIURA, MD PhD
Professor, Tohoku University
IDAC, Dept. Human Brain Science
IRIDeS, Cognitive Sciences Lab
CogNAC, Div. Research-Education Strategy
SARC, Div. Cognitive Neuroscience
Know your brain. Make the world better.
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. We look forward to your participation.
Research theme
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The Self in the Brain
How is the ‘self’ born in the brain and how it affects our cognition, behavior, and social adaptation? We are trying to solve mysteries about various aspects of the self, such as physical,
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Where value comes from?
The brain integrates various sensory inputs and evaluates the item or environment by referring to knowledge and memory, but the process is still full of mysteries. Various behavioral experiments and n
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Language and communication
Humans create a society through communication, and language is its powerful tool to convey feelings and move people. Elucidation of the neural bases of these functions and their acquisition is expecte
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Disaster and the power to live
We are conducting various studies on human mind and behavior in disasters. In particular, we clarified 8 factors (leadership, problem solving, altruism, stubbornness, etiquette, emotion regulation, s
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Human brain science for the future
Super aging society, increasing disasters, and ‘smart’ society to come; how do these environmental and social changes affect our lives and values? From the perspective of cognition and bra
News
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202412.20EVENT
23rd Human Neuroscience Seminar: Social Interaction and Language Communication
We are pleased to have hosted the 23rd Human Neuroscience Seminar, which focused on the neural basis
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202412.06EVENT
Year-end party in 2024
On December 6th, we held a year-end party. This event included a welcome celebration for our ne
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202411.26INFORMATION
Exploring Writing Mechanisms in Second Language Through the Integration of Behavioral and Neuroscience Methods (New Research Grant Awarded)
We are thrilled to announce the successful award of the TOEFL COE 2025 Research Program grant for ou
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202411.23EVENT
sports competition (table tennis / VICTORY!!）
We participated in a sports event (table tennis) held by the Institute of Development, Aging, and Ca
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202411.22RESEARCH
Disaster Communication Neuroscience in Foreign Languages (Selected for Tohoku University-UCL Matching Fund)
Tohoku University and University College London (UCL) have selected eight interdisciplinary collab
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202410.25RESEARCH
fMRI Study on Deep Comprehension in Second Language Reading (Poster Presentation)
How can we promote "deep comprehension" beyond surface-level understanding when reading in
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202410.25RESEARCH
The impact of conversational eyebrow movements on intention recognition: An fMRI Study (Poster presentation)
In face-to-face conversations, when asking questions, the onset of eyebrow movements usually comes e
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202410.24RESEARCH
Exploring Brain Activity with fMRI: Effects of Multimodal Input on Language Learning (Poster Presentation)
What mechanisms support reading comprehension in a second language (L2), and how does multimodal inf
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202410.24RESEARCH
The Role of Gesture in Second Language Acquisition: an fMRI study (Poster Presentation)
I attended the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2024 conference from October 24 to October 2
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202410.24RESEARCH
Cross-linguistic Sentence Production in Chinese-Japanese Bilinguals: An fMRI Study (Poster Presentation)
How do bilinguals process and integrate syntactic information when generating sentences in different
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202410.24RESEARCH
How Language Shapes Emotion: An fMRI Study of Emotion Verbalization in First and Second Languages (Poster Presentation)
I just finished a poster presentation at this year's Society for the Neurobiology of Language (S
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202410.22RESEARCH
Do you consider yourself to be superior to others in every domain? (Paper publication)
People tend to have positive self-evaluations in which they believe they are better than others. How
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202410.19RESEARCH
The effect of self-esteem to social pressure and cignitive performance
Self-esteem has an anxiety-buffering function, and rising self-esteem makes people not to feel anxie
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202410.19RESEARCH
The neural basis of preference for sad music (poster presentation / award)
I gave a poster presentation of my research at The 6th Coregulating Social Brain Group. My theme is
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202410.11EVENT
Exploring New Vocabulary Acquisition Research Using Brain Imaging Technique (22nd Human Brain Sciences Seminar)
Exploring New Vocabulary Acquisition Research Using Brain Imaging Technique (22nd Human Brain Scien
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202410.09RESEARCH
Uncovering social motivations in daily dialogue modes: an fMRI study (Poster Presentation)
There are several kinds of social motivation present in our social interactions with different peopl
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