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Achievements (last one year)

Academic Papers(peer reviewed)

2024/03/19

Yusuke Sudo, Junko Ota, Tsunehiko Takamura, Rio Kamashita, Sayo Hamatani, Noriko Numata, Ritu Bhusal Chhatkuli, Tokiko Yoshida, Jumpei Takahashi, Hitomi Kitagawa, Koji Matsumoto, Yoshitada Masuda, Michiko Nakazato, Yasuhiro Sato, Yumi Hamamoto, Tomotaka Shoji, Tomohiko Muratsubaki, Motoaki Sugiura, Shin Fukudo, Michiko Kawabata, Momo Sunada, Tomomi Noda, Keima Tose, Masanori Isobe, Naoki Kodama, Shingo Kakeda, Masatoshi Takahashi, Shu Takakura, Motoharu Gondo, Kazufumi Yoshihara, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Eiji Shimizu, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yoshiyuki Hirano*

Comprehensive elucidation of resting-state functional connectivity in anorexia nervosa by a multicenter cross-sectional study

Psychological Medicine, 2024; published online.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291724000485

2024/03/12

Shigeyuki Ikeda*, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Yukako Sasaki, Kohei Sakaki, Shohei Yamazaki, Takayuki Nozawa, Ryuta Kawashima

Predicting conversational satisfaction of face-to-face conversation through interpersonal similarity in resting-state functional connectivity

Scientific Reports 2024; 14, 6015. 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56718-7

2024/03/06

Yumi Hamamoto*, Kentaro Oba, Ryo Ishibashi, Yi Ding, Rui Nouchi, Motoaki Sugiura

Reduced body-image disturbance by body-image interventions is associated with neural-response changes in visual and social processing regions: a preliminary study

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024; 15:1337776

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1337776

2024/02/01

Masato Takubo, Motoaki Sugiura*, Ryo Ishibashi, Naoki Miura and Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi

A risk-scrutinizing attitude is independent of risk-sensitive attitude and may hamper a proper protective response: a tsunami simulation experiment

Journal of Disaster Research,2023;19(1):81-93 

https://doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2024.p0081

2024/02/01

Masato Takubo, Motoaki Sugiura*, Ryo Ishibashi, Naoki Miura and Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi

How disaster prevention videos contribute to tsunami evacuation: subjective motivation and risk-sensitive attitude in a simulation experiment

Journal of Disaster Research,2023;19(1):94-104

https://doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2024.p0094

2024/01/30

Chunlin Liu, Hyeonjeong Jeong*, Haining Cui, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Kiyo Okamoto, Yuichi Suzuki, Motoaki Sugiura 

Effects of social interactions on the neural representation of emotional words in late bilinguals

Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 2024

https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2307630

2024/01/22

Keima Tose, Tsunehiko Takamura, Masanori Isobe, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Yasuhiro Sato, Naoki Kodama, Kazufumi Yoshihara, Norihide Maikusa, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Tomomi Noda, Ryo Mishima, Michiko Kawabata, Shun'ichi Noma, Shu Takakura, Motoharu Gondo, Shingo Kakeda, Masatoshi Takahashi, Satoru Ide, Hiroaki Adachi, Sayo Hamatani, Rio Kamashita, Yusuke Sudo, Koji Matsumoto, Michiko Nakazato, Noriko Numata, Yumi Hamamoto, Tomotaka Shoji, Tomohiko Muratsubaki, Motoaki Sugiura, Toshiya Murai, Shin Fukudo, Atsushi Sekiguchi 

Systematic reduction of gray matter volume in anorexia nervosa, but relative enlargement with clinical symptoms in the prefrontal and posterior insular cortices: a multicenter neuroimaging study

Molecular Psychiatry (in press)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-023-02378-4

2023/12/06

Hiroshi Nonami*, Kentaro Oba, Yutaka Tashiro, Toshiaki Aoki, Shoji Ohtomo.

Maximin principle, emotional aversion, and integrative judgment in the NIMBY context, including social dilemma and moral dilemma: The roles of the amygdala, angular gyrus, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

Social Neuroscience, 2023; 18(5): 282-291

https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2023.2280060

2023/08/30

Yushi Sugimoto, Ryo Yoshida, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Masatoshi Koizumi, Jonathan R. Brennan, Yohei Oseki

Localizing Syntactic Composition with Left-Corner Recurrent Neural Network Grammars

Neurobiology of Language, 2023, p1-24.

https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00118

2023/08/18

Yumi Hamamoto*, Akio Honda, Naoki Miura, Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi, Kentaro Oba, Ryo Ishibashi, Motoaki Sugiura

Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023; 14, 1230192.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1230192

2023/08/10

Yi Ding, Ryo Ishibashi, Tsuneyuki Abe, Akio Honda, Motoaki Sugiura

A multifactorial framework of psychobehavioral determinants of coping behaviors: an online survey at the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023; 14: 1200473.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1200473

2023/08/06

Ayumi Takemoto*, Inese Aispuriete, Laima Niedra, Lana Franceska Dreimane

Depression detection using virtual avatar communication and eye tracking

Journal of Eye Movement Research,(2023), 16(2).

https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.16.2.6

2023/07/13

Kanan Hirano†, Kentaro Oba, Toshiki Saito, Ryuta Kawashima, Motoaki Sugiura*†. 

Social-coalitional trait is related to coping capacity with mortality threat: association with leadership and a reduced parietal response to mortality salience.

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023; 17:1188878.  

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1188878

2023/06/19

Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi*, Ryo Ishibashi & Yasuhiro Hatori

Control of bottom-up attention in scene cognition contributes to visual working memory performance.

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2023; 85, pp.1425–1436.

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02740-2

2023/06/01

Yuichi Suzuki†, Hyeonjeong Jeong†, Haining Cui, Kiyo Okamoto, Ryuta Kawashima, Motoaki Sugiura  (†equal contribution) 

fMRI reveals the dynamic interface between explicit and implicit knowledge recruited during elicited imitation task

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2023; 2(2),100051

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100051

Other Publications

2023/12/14

Hyeonjeong Jeong, Ping Li

Neurocognition of Social Learning of L2: How can L2 be learned as L1?

In K. Morgan-Short & J.van Hell (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics, Routledge. 2024, Chapter16.

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003190912

Conference Presentation

2024/04/15

Yu Liu, Motoaki Sugiura

Posterior Cingulate Cortex Mediates Emotional Approval of Victimization in Moral Decision-making

Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2024, Sheraton Hotel Toronto, Toronro, Canaday Poster z

https://www.cogneurosociety.org/

2024/04/14

Yi Ding, Kentaro Oba, Ryo Ishibashi, Shinsuke Suzuki, Motoaki Sugiura

The impact of social acceptance on the self-referential processing across different domains: an fMRI study

Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2024, Sheraton Hotel Toronto, Toronto, Canaday Poster z

https://www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeting/

2024/03/27

Yu Liu, Motoaki Sugiura

Insula and Anterior Prefrontal Cortex Mediates Emotional and Reasoning Processes Respectively in Moral Decision-making

Soceity for Social Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2024, Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japany Poster z

https://www.s4sn.org/

2024/03/27

Xinyi He, Motoaki Sugiura

Memory Misattribution between Self and Other

Soceity for Social Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2024, Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japany Poster z

https://www.s4sn.org/

2024/03/25

Jeyoon Choi, Motoaki Sugiura

Social neuroscience of the behavioral immune system: fMRI insights into collectivism and infection responses

2024 Society for Social Neuroscience, Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Japany Poster z

https://www.s4sn.org

2024/03/19

Hyeonjeong Jeong, Yuichi Suzuki, Chunlin Liu, Motoaki Sugiura

Explicit learning and beyond : Neural evidence for automatization in L2 grammar acquisition

American Association for Applied Linguistics 2024, Houston, Texas, USA, March 2024y Œû‰‰ Oral z

https://www.aaal.org/events/aaal-2024-conference---houston-texas

2024/02/10

Yu Liu, Motoaki Sugiura

Higher values of the victim make decisions more difficult in trolley-problem-like task, indicating a new explanation for deontological decisions

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2024 Annual Meeting, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USAy Poster z

https://spsp.org/events/annual-convention

2024/02/09

Shoki Ogata, Motoaki Sugiura.

Altruism and self-transcendent traits are associated with lower decision-related brain activity related to image effect of 8 is cheap.

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2024 Annual Convention. San Diego Convention center, San Diego, USA. y Poster z

https://spsp.org/

2023/11/14

Mika Nishio, Naoki Miura, Ryo Ishibashi, Motoaki Sugiura 

Neural correlates of trust decision making

Society for Neuroscience, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, USA.y Poster z

https://www.sfn.org/

2023/10/25

Chunlin Liu, Takumi Uchihara, Motoaki Sugiura, Ping Li, Hyeonjeong Jeong

The effect of emotional cues on the learning of L2 emotional vocabulary: an fMRI study

Society for the Neurobiology of Languagey Poster z

https://www.neurolang.org/2023/

2023/10/25

Victoria-Anne FloodDiego Elisandro DardonMotoaki SugiuraHyeonjeong Jeong

Neural mechanisms of attitudinal prosody perception in a second language: an fMRI study

Society for the Neurobiology of Languagey Poster z

https://www.neurolang.org/2023/

2023/10/24

Diego Elisandro Dardon, Chunlin Liu Motoaki SugiuraHyeonjeong Jeong

The Learning of Phonological-Based Linguistic Categories: An fMRI Study

Society for the Neurobiology of Languagey Poster z

https://www.neurolang.org/2023/

2023/09/08

Yu Liu, Motoaki Sugiura

Higher Emotional Values of the Options, but not Utilitarian Ones, Make Moral Decisions More Difficult

Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology 2023, University of Porto, Porto, Portugaly Oral z

https://escop2023.org/

2023/08/27

Yi DingKentaro ObaRyo Ishibashi, Shinsuke Suzuki, Motoaki Sugiura

Association of social acceptance and rejection with self-referential processing across different domains: an fMRI study

European Brain and Behaviour Society, Amsterdam, Netherlandsy Poster z

https://ebbs2023.azuleon.org/programme

2023/08/04

Motoaki Sugiura.

Eight factors of the power to live with disasters and their neural correlates.

Panel "Psychological findings from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami into the BANI World" in the 2nd Thailand International Conference on Psychology 2023 (TICP2023), Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.y Invited symposist z

https://www.psy.chula.ac.th/th/research/ticp-2023/conference-program

2023/07/07

Victoria-Anne Flood, Hyeonjeong Jeong

How Do Second Language Learners Process Attitudinal Prosody?

2023 Joint Internatioal Conference on ELT in Korea, July 6-8, 2023 Konkuk University, Seoul y Oral z

2023/07/07

Diego Elisandro Dardon, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Motoaki Sugiura

Dissociating the Roles of Working Memory and Language Aptitude during L2 Learning: An fMRI Study

2023 Joint Internatioal Conference on ELT in Korea, July 6-8, 2023 Konkuk University, Seoul y Oral z

2023/05/22

Motoaki Sugiura*, Masato Takubo, Ryo Ishibashi, Naoki Miura, Azumi Tanabe.

Development of a fictitious scenario task for tsunami evacuation attitude assessment.

Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2023 ,MAKUHARI MESSE, Chiba, Japan.y Oral z

https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2023/

2023/05/22

Motoaki Sugiura*, Masato Takubo, Ryo Ishibashi, Naoki Miura, Azumi Tanabe.

Differences in neural processes of tsunami evacuation decision-making by information type: an fMRI study.

Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2023 ,MAKUHARI MESSE, Chiba, Japan.y Poster z

https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2023/

Other Academic Activities

2024/02/27

Motoaki Sugiura

20th Human Brain Science Seminar "Body image: where does it come from?"

IDAC, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japany Seminar organization z

2024/02/27

Yi Ding, Kentaro Oba, Ryo Ishibashi, Shinsuke Suzuki, Motoaki Sugiura

Association of social acceptance and rejection with self-referential processing across different domains

20th Human Brain Science Seminar "Body image: where does it come from?," Tohoku University, Sendai, Japany Oral z

2024/01/10

Yi Ding, Kentaro Oba, Ryo Ishibashi, Shinsuke Suzuki, Motoaki Sugiura

The impact of social acceptance on the self-referential processing: an fMRI study

Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2024, Rusutsu Resort Hotel, Hokkaido, Japany Poster z

2023/12/13

Xinyi HeMotoaki Sugiura

Memory Misattribution between Self and Other

11th Tohoku University Young Ensembley Poster Workshop z

2023/12/01

Yin May Zin Han, Sugiura Motoaki 

Connecting Cognitive Neuroscience and Education

Forum for Graduate School Educational Reform 2023, Tsukuba International Congress Center, Ibaraki, Japany Poster z

2023/09/22

Motoaki Sugiura.

18th Human Brain Science Seminar "Network and dynamic analysis of fMRI time series".

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.y Seminar Organization z

2023/09/22

Motoaki Sugiura.

Neural bases of power to live.

18th Human Brain Science Seminar "Network and dynamic analysis of fMRI time series," Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.y Oral z

2023/09/21

Yin May Zin Han,Yichuan Huang, Shirahama Sachiyuki,Hyeongjeong Jeong, Sugiura Motoaki

Neural Correlates of Motivation Behind Different Dialogue Modes

The Potential for Brain Function Research on Language, Cognition, and Emotiony Symposium z

2023/09/21

Diego Elisandro Dardon, Hyeonjeong Jeong, & Motoaki Sugiura

The Learning Mechanism of Nominal Classification Systems

The Potential for Brain Function Research on Language, Cognition, and Emotiony Symposium z

2023/08/08

Motoaki Sugiura.

Are you interested in brain research using MRI? Brain MRI Center, IDAC, Tohoku Univ.

9th Joint Workshop between Case Western Reserve University and Tohoku University, Tohoku University, Sendai.y Poster z

2023/08/08

Chunlin Liu, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Haining Cui, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Kiyo Okamoto, Yuichi Suzuki, Motoaki Sugiura

The effect of social interaction on second language emotionality perception: an fMRI study. Brain MRI Center, IDAC, Tohoku Univ.

9th Joint Workshop between Case Western Reserve University and Tohoku University, Tohoku University, Sendai y Poster z

2023/08/08

Victoria-Anne FloodDiego Elisandro Dardon, Motoaki Sugiura, Hyeonjeong Jeong

Neural mechanisms of attitudinal prosody perception in a second language: an fMRI study

9th Joint Workshop between Case Western Reserve University and Tohoku University, Tohoku University, Sendaiy Poster z

2023/07/05

Victoria-Anne Flood

Brain Mechanisms for Decoding Attitudinal Prosody in the Second Language

Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HIPCS), Hanyang University, Seoul, Koreay Seminar z

2023/07/05

Diego Elisandro Dardon

Neural Correlates of Learning Nominal Classification Rules: an fMRI study

Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HIPCS), Hanyang University, Seoul, Koreay Seminar z

2023/06/07

Motoaki Sugiura.

Exploring the neural correlates of resilient personality traits.

Tohoku – KU Leuven symposium, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.y Oral z

2023/05/27

Motoaki Sugiura.

Brain activity of self-transcendent individual during environmental thermal stress.

Conference on Religion, Spirituality, and Wellbeing, Assisi, Italy.y Oral z

2023/05/24

Motoaki Sugiura.

How to overcome stress: Brain activity of self-transcendent individual during environmental thermal stress.

Pontificia Universita Antonianum, Roma, Italy.y Invited z