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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202106.03RESEARCH
Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Bilingual Word Recognition (Paper accepted)
When Chinese-Japanese bilingua
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202105.12RESEARCH
Are you better than your peers? (preprint release)
People tend to make positive s
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202105.12RESEARCH
Cognitive Mechanisms of Language Switching (Paper accepted)
What is the cognitive mechanis
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202105.07RESEARCH
Tactile Communication (Human Brain Science Seminar)
In the online society, we tend
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202104.11EVENT
Japan and France: Video recording of the lecture (open to the public 5/22-)
At the annual meeting of Tohok
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202103.31RESEARCH
What Cognitive Factors Better Predict Learning of Linguistic Semantic Rules? (Paper publication)
The world’s languages ar
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202103.31RESEARCH
Applying findings about visual working memory to learning (research grant)
Our application for a research
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202103.23RESEARCH
Invited Colloquium at the conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics 2021
I organized an invited colloqu
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202103.18RESEARCH
Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: 51 Approaches to Disaster Science (Book Publication)
Ten years have passed since th
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202103.17RESEARCH
Exploring the Brain Mechanism of Evacuation Decision-Making (Symposium)
Is there an appropriate way to
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