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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 brain science, we aim to make proposals on the future of human life, technology and society.
201912.30 Neural evidence of the effect of critical-thinking training (paper publication) Posted in RESEARCH
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Does critical-thinking training of asserting in a different opinion really promotes open-minded thinking? We provided an evidence of this intervention effect by demonstrating increased activation of the right parietal frontal network, which has been implicated in open-minded thinking, when taking another’s perspective. The collaborative work with Prof. Naoki Miura (Tohoku Institute of Technology) has been published in Social Neuroscience. (Sugiura)