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Language and communication
Humans create a society through communication, and language is its powerful tool to convey feelings and move people. Elucidation of the neural bases of these functions and their acquisition is expected to contribute to understanding humanity and to educational applications.
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)