Research theme

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.
- The Self in the Brain
- Where value comes from?
- Language and communication
- Disaster and the power to live
- Human brain science for the future
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How is intimacy improved by action? (poster presentation)
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CONSUMERS CAN EXPECT TASTES FROM MEANINGLESS SPEECH SOUNDS(PAPER ACCEPTED)
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201908.23
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In the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) hold in Helsink

201907.28
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201907.27
Non-linguistic bases of language and its acquisition (Symposium)
Does a language-specific neural substrate really exist? At least in various language-non-specific br

201907.05
NEURAL CORRELATES OF JAPANESE HONORIFIC EXPRESSIONS (ORAL PRESENTATION)
Japanese honorific expressions are known as grammaticalized honorification, which apply certain ling

201906.01
NEURAL CORRELATES OF PROCESSING L2 SOCIOPRAGMATIC KNOWLEDGE-THE CASE OF HONORIFIC EXPRESSIONS (ORAL PRESENTATION)
In the International Symposium on Diverse Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Learner Corpora

201904.24
Symposium: ESRC-AHRC UK-Japan SSH Connections Project
A joint UK-Japan project has begun, bringing together researchers from the UK and Japan to hold a sy

201903.17
Round faces are associated with sweet foods (Paper accepted)
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201903.10
Invited talks at University of Utah and Brigham Young University, USA
I was invited to give talks on March 4th – 10th by two universities: University of Utah and Br