Know your brain. Make the world better.
Motoaki SUGIURA, MD PhD
Professor, Tohoku University
IDAC, Dept. Human Brain Science
IRIDeS, Dept. Disaster-Related Cognitive Science
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, 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.
NewsList
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202012.02RESEARCH
Brain activity predicts future learning success in second language listening (Paper Publication)
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202011.19RESEARCH
Neural mechanisms of language learning from social contexts (Paper Publication)
Humans learn languages in real
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202010.16RESEARCH
For society to deal with the spread of corona infection (new research project)
There is a large gap between o
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202010.03RESEARCH
The neural mechanisms of explicit and implicit knowledge (Symposium presentation)
There is a theoretical and pra
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202010.01RESEARCH
Brain science on online communication (Start-up grant accepted)
In the post-corona online soci
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202009.17RESEARCH
Hearing with eyes, seeing with ears (Poster presentation)
How do orchestra performers st
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202008.17RESEARCH
Exploring The Benefits Of Reminiscence Evoked By Nostalgic Smells (web conference)
It has been shown that feeling
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202008.06RESEARCH
When do infants acquire abstract concepts? (paper publication)
Infants can learn semantic con
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202007.31RESEARCH
Taste-shape correspondences are associated with drive for thinness (Paper publication)
It is well known that people a
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202007.30RESEARCH
Power to live in post-Corona (New research project)
What problems do we face and h
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