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 ‘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,
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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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202508.21EVENT
fMRI Data Analysis Workshop (DAY 2)
Announcing an fMRI Data Analysis Workshop! (Two Days: August 18 & 21) Are you struggling with
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202508.18EVENT
fMRI Data Analysis Workshop (DAY 1)
Announcing an fMRI Data Analysis Workshop! (Two Days: August 18 & 21) Are you struggling with
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202508.08EVENT
Art x Human Resource Development.: 2nd Future Talent Study Group
The theme of the 2nd Future Talent Study Group is "Art x Human Resource Development." We
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202508.07EVENT
Workshop of Dynamic Symmetric Functional Connectivity (DySCo)
We held a workshop on Dynamic Symmetric Functional Connectivity (DySCo), an analysis method for func
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202507.30EVENT
Open Campus: Introducing Labs and fMRI Research (July 30–31, 2025)
On July 30 (Wed) and 31 (Thu), 2025, Tohoku University held its annual Open Campus, during which the
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202507.13RESEARCH
Do bilinguals share the same syntactic processing system for L1 and L2? (International Conference Oral Presentation)
When bilinguals produce sentences in their first language (L1) and second language (L2), how is synt
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202507.13RESEARCH
How Gestures Facilitate Second Language Acquisition: A Neural Perspective (International Oral Presentation)
People use gestures all the time — they’re such a natural yet essential part of our comm
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202507.11EVENT
47th Research Committee Presentation Contest Organized by the IDAC - 4th Place Award
I was honored to receive 4th-place recognition for my presentation at the 164th biannual meeting of
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202507.04RESEARCH
Embodied Emotion and Language: the Neural Substrates of Visceral Expressions of Emotion (Oral Presentation/Award-winning)
This fMRI study investigated how the neural processing of visceral expressions of emotion (e.g.,
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202507.04RESEARCH
Neural Processing of Attitudinal Prosody During Second Language Sentence Comprehension(Oral Presentation)
We attended the Korean Society of Psycholinguistics "Re"-Human Brain in Psychology and Lan
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202507.03EVENT
Language Research from a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective Using fMRI (Plenary Talk)
I gave a plenary talk titled “Language Research from a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective Usin
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202507.02RESEARCH
Decoded by Brain Data: Social Self (Data Science Cafe)
How can we empirically investigate the abstract and multifaceted concept of the social self? This st
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202507.01EVENT
Enthusiasm x Mind Study Group
Will enthusiasm sublimate into “immersion” or lean toward “dependence”? What
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202506.24RESEARCH
Beyond Words: How Gestures Shape Speech Comprehension and Retention in the Bilingual Brain (International Conference Poster Presentation)
I have attended the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) this year, aiming to share my recent
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