---------- Date: Friday, December 20th, 2024 Time: 14:30 – 17:10 Venue: Department of Human Brain Science, 3F, Smart-Aging Research Center Building, IDAC, Tohoku University
Program
14:30 – 15:10 Talk 1: Student Presentation
Presenter: Yin May Zin Han (D1)
Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University
Title: Neural Mechanisms of Family Communication: An fMRI Study
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:40 Talk 2: Special Guest Speaker
Speaker: Professor Piia Astikainen
Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Title: Social Learning of Foreign Languages: Electrophysiological Studies
Abstract: In this talk, I will present preliminary results from our study investigating the social learning of foreign phonetic features in adult participants. Native Finnish speakers were taught detection and pronunciation of Mandarin tones for one hour per day on four consecutive days. Two groups of learners, learning the language alone or in pairs, were compared in terms of learning outcomes. Learning performance was tested using behavioural and brain activity (event-related potentials) measures. In addition, brain-to-brain synchrony between tutor and learner was measured during listen-and-repeat training of word pronunciation. I will also describe the research protocol of two ongoing studies. These will test social and interactive methods for teaching pronunciation and word meaning in a foreign language.
Bio: Piia Astikainen is a Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research focuses on face and speech perception and foreign language learning, using electrophysiological and behavioural methods. She has conducted several large-scale projects funded by the Research Council of Finland related to these topics, and her latest project investigates social foreign language learning. For more details, see her research group’s website: Active Mind Lab.
第23回人間神経科学セミナー「社会的相互作用と言語コミュニケーション」を開催いたします。本セミナーでは、言語コミュニケーションの脳神経基盤や、社会的相互作用を通じた言語習得の意義について脳科学の観点から探ります。今回は特別講師として、フィンランド・ユヴァスキュラ大学心理学科のPiia Astikainen教授をお招きし、最新の研究成果をご紹介いただくとともに、研究の方向性や可能性について議論を深めてまいります。(Jeong)
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Date: Friday, December 20th, 2024
Time: 14:30 – 17:10
Venue: Department of Human Brain Science, 3F, Smart-Aging Research Center Building, IDAC, Tohoku University
Program
14:30 – 15:10
Talk 1: Student Presentation
- Presenter: Yin May Zin Han (D1)
- Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University
- Title: Neural Mechanisms of Family Communication: An fMRI Study
15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break15:30 – 16:40
Talk 2: Special Guest Speaker
- Speaker: Professor Piia Astikainen
- Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Title: Social Learning of Foreign Languages: Electrophysiological Studies
Abstract: In this talk, I will present preliminary results from our study investigating the social learning of foreign phonetic features in adult participants. Native Finnish speakers were taught detection and pronunciation of Mandarin tones for one hour per day on four consecutive days. Two groups of learners, learning the language alone or in pairs, were compared in terms of learning outcomes. Learning performance was tested using behavioural and brain activity (event-related potentials) measures. In addition, brain-to-brain synchrony between tutor and learner was measured during listen-and-repeat training of word pronunciation. I will also describe the research protocol of two ongoing studies. These will test social and interactive methods for teaching pronunciation and word meaning in a foreign language.Bio: Piia Astikainen is a Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research focuses on face and speech perception and foreign language learning, using electrophysiological and behavioural methods. She has conducted several large-scale projects funded by the Research Council of Finland related to these topics, and her latest project investigates social foreign language learning. For more details, see her research group’s website: Active Mind Lab.
16:40 – 17:10
Talk 3 CogNAC Researcher Presentation
- Speaker: Professor Hyeonjeong Jeong
- GSICS, Tohoku University
- Title: Socially Embedded Language Learning: What Can fMRI Research Do?
Contact: Hyeonjeong Jeong (jeong@tohoku.ac.jp)