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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202409.25EVENT
Tohoku University Professor Fujino Incentive Award 2024
I have received the Professor Fujino Incentive Award 2024, Tohoku University. I am very honored
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202409.25EVENT
Welcome Party!
We held a welcome party for the three new members to our lab (Tanaka san, Kaneko san and Yasumi san)
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202409.18RESEARCH
An international collaborative fMRI study to elucidate language behavior during disasters (article in press)
Successful disaster management requires appropriate language communication and correct behavioral ch
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202409.17EVENT
A Social Neuroimaging Approach to Generational Interests (Workshop)
Individual empathy can sometimes lead to co-poorness as a group. Why is this so? How can we prevent
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202409.07RESEARCH
Does the number of surrounding others influence evacuation decision (Conference Poster Presentation).
It is known that the actions of others influence evacuation behavior during a disaster, but does the
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202409.06RESEARCH
The long-term memory may have an inhibitory effect from working memory (Poster presentation)
A classic model of memory assumes that information stored in the short-term memory is automatically
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202408.28RESEARCH
the neural mechanisms underlying preference for sad music (symposium presentation)
I presented my research on the neural mechanisms underlying the preference for sad music at the symp
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202408.28RESEARCH
Brain mechanisms of self-presentation adjustment to social rejection (Symposium Presentation)
People can regulate their self-presentation to others based on the feedback of social interaction, w
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202407.31EVENT
Exploring the Potential of Cognitive Neuroscience in Declining Birthrates (Workshop)
The declining birthrate is the biggest socioeconomic issue in Japan, but the government'
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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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