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Physiological Anthropology Lab
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This lab explores healthy and comfortable environments through the body's physiological responses.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring comfortable environments through the human body's responses
The physiological anthropology lab studies how the physiological characteristics humans have as living organisms are affected by lifestyle and living environment.
It is also interested in whether those effects represent adaptation to the environment.
The lab examines thermoregulatory and circulatory responses when people are exposed to cold, heat, and low-pressure, low-oxygen environments, as well as the relationship between bathing and sleep.
It aims to create healthy and comfortable environments and lifestyles for people living today.
Key terms
- Physiological anthropology
- A field that investigates how the physiological characteristics humans have as living organisms are affected by lifestyle and living environment.
- Thermoregulation
- The responses the body produces to maintain its temperature against heat or cold. The lab measures these responses in experiments.
ResearchResearch themes
How are human physiological characteristics affected by lifestyle and living environment? The lab investigates whether those effects represent adaptation to the environment, using thermoregulatory and circulatory responses as clues.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating Work Load with Thermography
The lab is verifying whether infrared thermography is valid for evaluating the load of physically demanding work. It has been working on this as an international collaborative study since March 2026.
*Illustrative imageCreating Classroom Environments in Tropical Schools
The lab is exploring ways to optimize indoor environmental quality in school classrooms in tropical climate regions. It has been working on this as an international collaborative study since April 2025.
*Illustrative imageHigh Pressure, High Oxygen, and Recovery After Exercise in the Heat
The lab investigates what effects an environment of high atmospheric pressure and abundant oxygen has on recovery after exercise in a hot environment. It has been working on this as an international collaborative study since April 2024.
*Illustrative imageBodily Changes from Bathing and Sleep
The lab investigates what physiological changes occur in the body through bathing and how they affect sleep.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTakafumi Maeda
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Environmental chamber-open” Cjp24 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating Work Load with Thermography: “Covent Garden, London, in Thermal Infrared ( )” David Skinner / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Creating Classroom Environments in Tropical Schools: “Malaysia infrasturcture 1” Amiham.singh / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- High Pressure, High Oxygen, and Recovery After Exercise in the Heat: “Hyperbaric Chamber Used For Experimental Diving” Tim Sheerman-Chase / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Bodily Changes from Bathing and Sleep: “Takanoyu Onsen Bridge and Hot Spring 005” RickardA / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Physiological Anthropology Lab): “Inuit sculpture, Canada - Arctic Museum” Fanny Schertzer / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
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