Know your brain. Make the world better.
Motoaki SUGIURA, MD PhD
Professor, Tohoku University
IDAC, Dept. Human Brain Science
IRIDeS, Cognitive Sciences Lab
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, social, and mental health.
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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 neural measurements have revealed the mysterious reality.
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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 expected to contribute to understanding humanity and to educational applications.
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Disaster and the power to live
What psychological and behavioral characteristics do those who overcome various adversities in life have? Eight major factors of such characteristics were identified in a survey of the victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
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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 brain science, we aim to make proposals on the future of human life, technology and society.
News
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202211.24EVENT
From Multidisciplinary Cooperative Research on the Process of Believing to Multicultural Comparative Research (Conference Presentation)
Behavioral and brain research on self-transcendence, one of the eight factors of the power to live,
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202211.17EVENT
Towards Interdisciplinary Cognitive Neuroscience (Seminar)
To promote collaborative research between basic cognitive neuroscience and applied fields, it is imp
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202211.16RESEARCH
Is self-evaluation related to the feeling of being accepted? (Poster Presentation)
Negative self-evaluation is associated with social acceptance and rejection. Previous research has f
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202211.15RESEARCH
How to change recognition toward onefs own body image?(Poster presentation)
Body image disturbance is one of the biggest causes of eating disorders. It is implied that mirror e
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202211.08EVENT
Brain Science Reveals the Importance of an English-Use Environment for English Acquisition (Featured Interview)
An interview was featured in the Internet media published by the Bilingual Science Institute of Worl
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202211.05RESEARCH
Why do you wear a mask? Mask-wearing Psychology and Social Coregulation in the Post-Corona Era (Poster Presentation)
Why do Japanese people wear masks? Based on the questionnaire survey conducted to investigate the ps
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202211.01INFORMATION
Starting a social experiment of forming a local community with SNS
If you have relationships with people who can help each other in daily life, you will feel safer at
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202211.01INFORMATION
Position available (see Japanese page)
See Japanese page (native-level Japanese language-skill is mandatory for the position)
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202210.27RESEARCH
Brain hesitant to help others (paper preprints available)
While many people know that they should help the person in need in front of them, they often hesitat
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202210.27EVENT
Brain research toward understanding multiple aspects of social capabilities as a power to live (Conference presentation)
The key to human survival is sociality, which can be seen in the diverse social aspects included in
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202210.26EVENT
Human-Centered Approach to Disaster Resilience (US-Japan Workshop)
What kind of interdisciplinary approach/research infrastructure is needed to more accurately capture
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202210.16RESEARCH
Brain compensation of the attentional network supports elderlyfs driving (Poster presentation)
Kobe is a famous city for Western-style confectionery. I attended the 20th Annual Meeting of the Jap
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202210.15RESEARCH
The power of positive words (Poster Presentation)
Positive words are often used to evoke positive psychological effects to one's mind. However, it
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202210.15RESEARCH
The neural relationship between action contingency and social perception (Paper publication)
Animacy (person like appearance) enormously influence our acquisition of social perception. In addit
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202210.14EVENT
Neurocognition of Social Learning of Second Language: invited talk at Zhejiang University
I gave a talk at Zhejiang University in China on my recent work on a neurocognitive model of social
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202210.06RESEARCH
Brain basis of adaptive emotional regulation traits (Preprints release)
Cognitive reappraisal (reinterpreting situations to make them less painful) and acceptance (acceptin
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