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Achievements (2023)

Academic Papers(peer reviewed)

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

2023/04/12

Kelssy Hitomi dos Santos Kawata, Kanan Hirano, Yumi Hamamoto, Hajime Oi, Akitake Kanno, Ryuta Kawashima, Motoaki Sugiura*. 

Motivational decline and proactive response under thermal environmental stress are related to emotion- and problem-focused coping, respectively: Questionnaire construction and fMRI study.

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023; 7:1143450.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1143450

2023/04/03

Haining Cui, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Yoshihiro Mochizuki, Keiko Mochizuki

Word Order Typology and the Acquisition of Chinese gVerb + Resultativeh Compound Verbs: Insights from Brain Science and Learner Corpora

In: Chen, H.HJ., Mochizuki, K., Tao, H. (eds) Learner Corpora: Construction and Explorations in Chinese and Related Languages. Chinese Language Learning Sciences. Springer, Singapore, 2023, pp 319–333. 

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5731-4_15

2023/04/01

Kanan Hirano, Yo Fukushima, Hiroaki Maruya, Motoyuki Kido, Motoaki Sugiura*. 

The Anticipated Nankai Trough Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan: Determinant Factors of Residentsf Pre-Event Evacuation Intentions.

Journal of Disaster Science, 2023; 18(3): 233-245. 

https://doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2023.p0233

2023/03/24

Akio Honda*, Shosuke Sato, Motoaki Sugiura, Tsuneyuki Abe, Fumihiko Imamura.

Personality Traits and Types of Housing Recovery after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

Sustanability, 2023; 15(7): 5679. 

https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075679

2023/03/14

Vidya Gani Wijaya, Kentaro Oba, Ryo Ishibashi, Motoaki Sugiura*. 

Why people hesitate to help: Neural correlates of the counter-dynamics of altruistic helping and individual differences in daily helping tendencies.

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023; 14:1080376. 

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1080376

2023/03/06

Motoaki Sugiura, Yoko Katayori, Tomohiko Muratsubaki, Miyuki Shiratori, Sugiko Hanawa, Keyvan Kashkouli Nejad, Daisaku Tamura, Ryuta Kawashima, Shin Fukudo.

Automatic adaptive emotion regulation is associated with lower emotion-related activation in the frontoparietal cortex and other cortical regions with multi-componential organization.

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023G17:1059158. 

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1059158

2023/02/21

Yumi Hamamoto*, Shinsuke Suzuki, Kosuke Motoki, Kentaro Oba, Ryuta Kawashima, Motoaki Sugiura

Neural mechanisms of perceptual and affective body-image disturbance during own-body and ideal-body estimation

Behavioural Brain Research, 2023; 444:114349

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114349

2023/02/15

Shotaro Fujiwara*†, Ryo Ishibashi†, Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi, Ryuta Kawashima, Motoaki Sugiura.(†: equal contribution)

Sincere praise and flattery: reward value and association with the praise-seeking trait.

Frontier in Human Neuroscience, 2023G17:985047. 

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.985047

2023/01/12

Toshiki Saito*, Kosuke Motoki, Rui Nouchi, Motoaki Sugiura.

Facilitating animacy perception by manipulating stimuli exposure time.

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023; 13:1017685.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1017685

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

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 Languagey 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 Languagey 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 Languagey 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, Portugaly 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, Netherlandsy 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/

2023/03/27

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

Major Coping-behavior and Risk-perception Factors for the COVID-19 Pandemic and their Psychobehavioral Characteristics

Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, USAy Poster z

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

2023/03/21

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

Social interaction enhances second language emotionality in the brain: an fMRI study

American Association for Appliedlinguistics, 2023, Portland, USA y Oral z

https://www.aaal.org/events/aaal-2023-conference---portland-oregon

2023/03/19

Hyeonjeong Jeong, Andrea Revesz, Shungo Suzuki, Haiing Cui, Shunsui Matsuura, Kazuya Saito, Motoaki Sugiura

Investigating the neural correlates of task complexity during L1 and L2 speech production

American Association for Applied Linguistics 2023 Conference, Portland, Oregon, USAy Invitedsymposist Oral z

https://www.aaal.org/events/aaal-2023-conference---portland-oregon

2023/03/18

Hyeonjeong Jeong, Koji Kazai, Mayumi Kajiura, Yuko Nakano, Shuhei Kadota

The effect of speakerfs face on brain mechanisms during second language shadowing: An fMRI study

American Association for Applied Linguistics 2023 Conference, Portland, Oregon, USAy Oral z

https://www.aaal.org/events/aaal-2023-conference---portland-oregon

2023/02/25

Jeyoon Choi, Motoaki Sugiura

Behavioral Research on Sociality Change by Infection Concerns

Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2023, Atlanta, USA.y Poster z

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

Other Academic Activities

2023/12/13

Xinyi HeMotoaki Sugiura

Memory Misattribution between Self and Other

11th Tohoku University Young Ensembley 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, Japany 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 Emotiony 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 Emotiony 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, Sendaiy 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, Koreay 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, Koreay 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

2023/03/10

Andrea Révész, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Shungo Suzuki, Haining Cui, Shunsui Matsuura, Kazuya Saito, Motoaki Sugiura.

Neuro cognitive demands of foreign language communication in disaster situations.

World BOSAI Forum (Session 2: World-Class Disaster Science Research for Disaster Reduction) Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan.y Invited z