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202106.03
Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Bilingual Word Recognition (Paper accepted)
When Chinese-Japanese bilinguals read logograms, especially cognates (e.g., 「銀行」と「椅子」belong to both

202105.12
Are you better than your peers? (preprint release)
People tend to make positive self-evaluations that they think they are better than others. However,

202105.12
Cognitive Mechanisms of Language Switching (Paper accepted)
What is the cognitive mechanism during comprehension of language switching? Until now, the related s

202105.11
Welcome Party(Online)
A Welcome party has been held for Mr. Takamatsu, Mr. Motohashi, and Ms. He Xinyi, who newly joined o

202105.07
Tactile Communication (Human Brain Science Seminar)
In the online society, we tend to focus on the visual and auditory aspects of communication, but the

202104.11
Japan and France: Video recording of the lecture (open to the public 5/22-)
At the annual meeting of Tohoku University Gonryo Alumni Association in 2021, the special lecture by

202103.31
What Cognitive Factors Better Predict Learning of Linguistic Semantic Rules? (Paper publication)
The world’s languages are filled with various conceptual and social information infused into t

202103.31
Applying findings about visual working memory to learning (research grant)
Our application for a research grant by KDDI foundation has been accepted. I attended the grant pres

202103.23
Invited Colloquium at the conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics 2021
I organized an invited colloquium, titled Neuroscience of second language acquisition: Opportunities

202103.18
Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: 51 Approaches to Disaster Science (Book Publication)
Ten years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, which caused unprecedented damage. A bo