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Tsukiura Lab
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The lab explores the brain mechanisms of human memory using fMRI and other methods.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding how memory works through the lens of neuroscience
The Tsukiura Lab studies how human memory, particularly episodic memory, is supported in the brain.
The aim of the research is to use neuroscience to clarify the mental functions of memory: taking in information, then recalling and using it.
The lab combines functional brain imaging such as fMRI, neuropsychological methods with patients who have brain damage, and experimental psychology methods with healthy participants.
It also investigates how emotion, reward, and interactions with others affect memory, and how memory changes with aging.
Key terms
- fMRI
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging. One of the functional brain imaging methods that capture brain activity as images
- Neuropsychology
- A research method that studies the relationship between the brain and functions such as memory in patients with brain damage
- Hippocampus
- A structure located in the medial part of the temporal lobe. Together with the parahippocampal gyrus, it is considered a brain region important for episodic memory
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to clarify how human memory, particularly episodic memory, works in the brain. By combining functional brain imaging such as fMRI, neuropsychology, and experimental psychology, it studies everything from the basic mechanisms of memory to its relationship with emotion, social cognition, aging, and lifestyle.
*Illustrative imageBasic Mechanisms of Memory and the Brain
The lab focuses on structures in the medial temporal lobe, including the hippocampus and the parahippocampal gyrus, which are considered important for episodic memory. It investigates how this region affects memory processes, with a focus on the information processing of association and context.
*Illustrative imageEmotion, Reward, Social Factors, and Memory
Emotional events, such as happy or sad ones, are known to be remembered better, and memory is also enhanced by the motivation to obtain rewards or avoid punishment. The lab studies the brain mechanisms that link emotion and reward to memory, as well as the relationship between memory and social cognition, such as interactions with others.
*Illustrative imageMemory Changes with Aging
Memory function is affected as people age, but the brain mechanisms behind this are not yet well understood. The lab studies age-related changes in memory and the brain mechanisms underlying them.
*Illustrative imageLifestyle and Memory in Older Adults
It has been suggested that lifestyle factors such as exercise and diet may affect memory function. The lab examines the relationship between lifestyle and memory in older adults, aiming to identify which lifestyle habits help maintain and improve memory.
MembersFaculty
The Tsukiura Lab consists of faculty members, researchers, doctoral and master's students, and undergraduate students of the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakashi Tsukiura
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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: “1907 image of a brain (Labour and Childhood)” Margaret McMillan / Public domain (cropped)
- Basic Mechanisms of Memory and the Brain: “Left Hippocampal Sclerosis on MRI” Uhomachinky / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Emotion, Reward, Social Factors, and Memory: “Human Expressions” Kuiperbharat / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Memory Changes with Aging: “Old people, Llanuwchllyn NLW3364576” Thomas, John / Public domain (cropped)
- Lifestyle and Memory in Older Adults: “Elderly women walking past a roasted chestnuts vendor, Praça de Londres, Lisbon, Portugal julesvernex2” Jules Verne Times Two / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Brain Function Development and Regeneration Lab (Itaru Imayoshi)): “Neuron Classification” BruceBlaus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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