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 ehumanf 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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202407.23EVENT
Party to send off and to welcome
We had a lunch party to report Hamamoto sensei's return, to send off Choi-san and Liu Yu-san who
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202407.22EVENT
Interdisciplinary research x Neuroscience Research meeting
In recent years, there has been a demand for collaboration with clinical practice and society and so
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202407.21EVENT
Supports for Persons with Disabilities x Neuroscience Research meeting
In cognitive neuroscience research related to disability, there have been numerous studies on brain
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202407.10EVENT
hPain x Positive Psychology x Neuroscience" symposium
We will invite professors from the fields of medicine, physiology, cognitive neuroscience, c
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202407.03EVENT
Virtual reality x Cognitive Science Research Seminar
June 3, at 3:00 p.m., RIEC and IDAC organized a seminar for sharing and discussing the results of th
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202407.03INFORMATION
Online course "Introduction to Human Brain Science" [Japanese]
Human brain science uses functional brain imaging technology to visualize the cognitive processes in
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202407.02EVENT
Neural mechanism of ASMR (Research meeting)
ASMR is a concept and term that has been discussed by some members of the public mainly on the Inter
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202406.26EVENT
Cognitive Science x Disaster Risk Reduction Research seminar
Prof. David E. Alexander from University College London visited our lab, 26th June and 5th July
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202406.25RESEARCH
Can the Brain Explain the Relationship Between Infectious Diseases and Collectivism? An fMRI Study of the Neural Basis of the Behavioral Immune System (Poster Presentation)
It is known that humans who have experienced repeated infections have developed a "behavioral i
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202406.24RESEARCH
The feelings of acceptance and rejection affect the neural processes of self-evaluation (Poster Presentation)
Self-evaluation is believed to be influenced by feelings of acceptance and rejection. Previous resea
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202406.12RESEARCH
Invited Talk at the conference in Finland
On June 6-14, 2024, I participated as a keynote speaker at a conference (Brains and Bodies in S
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202406.06EVENT
How the Brain Works to Create Sustainable Behavior (Symposium Presentation)
In order to realize a sustainable society, a system for promoting sustainable behavior that is compa
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202406.01INFORMATION
Assistant Professor/Academic Research Position (Research and Teaching in Applied Cognitive Neuroscience; - July 31)
The Cognitive Neuroscience Application Center at Tohoku University is seeking an Assistant Professor
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202405.29EVENT
Safety x Brain Science - For effective learning from safety cases -
In order to maintain a high level of safety of complex systems such as aviation, railways, healthcar
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202405.27RESEARCH
Exploring Brain Regions Associated with Risk Sensitivity and Risk Scrutiny Attitudes Toward Tsunami Evacuation Behavior(oral presentation)
In our behavioral experiments using a tsunami evacuation simulation task, we found that risk sensiti
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202405.27RESEARCH
What neural basis do emotional control characteristics contribute to tsunami evacuation decision making?:An fMRI Study (Poster Presentation)
Previous studies have found that emotional regulation characteristics contribute to immediate tsunam
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