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Monthly：September 2025
202509.22
Farewell Party and Celebration of Degree Conferment
On September 22, we held a celebration and farewell party in the lab’s dining room for the stu
202509.18
The Effect of Social Pressure on Facial Emotion Recognition in Lonely People and Its Neural Mechanism (ICON2025 Poster Presentation)
The direction of the relation between facial emotion recognition and loneliness has been showed to b
202509.17
Social and Embodied Language Learning (Symposium at International Conference)
I had the pleasure of co-organizing and presenting at a symposium at ICON 2025 – International
202509.16
Distinct Neural Substrates of Visceral Expressions of Emotion (Poster Presentation at International Conference/Award-winning)
Using fMRI, this study investigated how the neural processing of visceral expressions of emotion (e.
202509.16
Prosody Meets Context: fMRI Evidence of Intention Comprehension in Second Language Learners (Poster Presentation at International Conference)
In this experiment on second language (L2) intention comprehension, we examined how L2 learners proc
202509.16
Neural mechanism of predictive sentence processing (Poster Presentation at the International Conference)
Using fMRI, we investigated brain activity during Korean sentence processing. The results revealed t
202509.16
Do you feel pain after being rejected? (Poster Presentation at the International Conference)
Social rejection is not only emotionally painful but also activates some of the same brain regions a
202509.12
Second Language Speech and Text Integration Mechanism (Poster Presentation at the international conference)
In collaboration with Professor Mayumi Kajiura at Nagoya City University, we conducted an fMRI study
202509.07
The Effect of Social Pressure on Facial Emotion Recognition in Lonely People and Its Neural Mechanism (Japanese Psychological Association Poster Presentation)
Lonely people perceive the social world as threatening and avoid social interactions due to biased c
202509.07
The Influence of Personality Traits and Optimism on Experimental Pain: fMRI Study(Poster Presentation)
Personality traits are known to influence pain perception. Some studies suggest that individuals wi