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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202301.12RESEARCH
Seeing makes it more animate? (Paper publication)
Although the perception of animality is thought to be a higher-order cognitive process, simple facto
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202301.01INFORMATION
A Happy New Year
Thank you very much for your support last year. The world is looking more and more different from wh
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202212.23EVENT
School of Medicine 2022 Basic Medical Training Achievement Presentation
The presentation of the achievements of this year's basic medical training was held, and the two
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202212.22EVENT
Motor-sensory integration and self-transcendence: cognitive neuroscience connects disaster research and lifelong science (Conference lecture)
Self-transcendence refers to the sense and idea of expansion beyond the boundaries of the self in va
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202212.19EVENT
Farewell party for Dr. Ishibashi
We held a send-off party for Dr. Ishibashi. We sincerely wish him continued success in his new posit
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202212.16EVENT
Celebration and Farewell Party for Dr. Ishibashi, Ms. Yoshida, and Mr. Takubo
We held a farewell party for Dr. Ishibashi (Assistant Professor), and Ms. Yoshida (B3) and Mr. Takub
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202212.16RESEARCH
Second language acquisition and predictive coding (16th Human Brain Science Seminar)
The 16th Human Brain Science Seminar was held as follows. This year's Human Brain Science Semina
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202212.15EVENT
IDAC Sports Event Held for the First Time in Three Years
CHOI and Ogata from the department of Human Brain Science participated in IDAC sports event held on
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202212.12RESEARCH
Do the 8 factors of the gpower to liveh with disasters exist in elementary and junior high school students? (paper publication)
Eight factors of the "power to live" were extracted based on the views of adult survivors
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202212.01INFORMATION
Position available (see Japanese page)
See Japanese page (native-level Japanese language-skill is mandatory for the position)
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202211.30EVENT
Welcome & Celebration Party ( Online )
To welcome YiChuan and Kiden joining the lab, together with celebration for Choi for earning a Maste
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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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