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Psychology of Individual Differences and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (Takahiro Osumi)
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The lab explores facial expression and gaze perception and the mechanisms of empathy through the workings of the brain and body.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding how people influence each other's minds, through the brain and body.
The Osumi Lab aims to clarify the mechanisms by which people's minds influence one another, through the workings of the brain and body.
From the perspective of social neuroscience, the lab studies facial expression and gaze perception, empathy, attachment, sense of agency, and related topics.
Using brain activity and peripheral physiological responses to changes in facial expression and gaze direction as indicators, the lab examines the mechanisms of understanding others' minds and empathy.
The lab has a shielded room for measuring EEG and a booth for behavioral experiments, and interaction experiments using both booths are also possible.
Key terms
- Event-Related Potential (ERP)
- Electrical brain activity that arises in response to stimuli or events such as facial expressions. It is extracted from EEG and measured.
- Interoception
- The sense of perceiving the state inside one's own body, such as the heartbeat.
- Sense of Agency
- The feeling that one has caused an action or its result.
NewsLab news
A paper on psychopathy and the detection of fearful expressions has been accepted by Personality and Individual Differences
A paper on thermal sensation and attachment style has been accepted by Ningen Kankyogaku Kenkyu (Journal of Human Environmental Studies)
Research results obtained with a master's student won the Young Researcher Excellent Presentation Award of the Japan Society for Research on Emotions
ResearchResearch themes
The lab specializes in the psychology of individual differences and cognitive neuroscience, and studies the information processing that underlies interaction between self and others. Using brain activity and peripheral physiological responses as indicators, it examines the mechanisms of understanding others' minds and empathy, and is also interested in how referring to one's own bodily information modulates social cognition.
Facial Expressions, Gaze, and Understanding and Empathy for Others
Using brain activity (event-related potentials) in response to changes in facial expression and gaze direction, and peripheral physiological responses such as facial muscle activity, mental sweating, and heart rate, as indicators, the lab examines the mechanisms of understanding others' minds and empathy, and their relationship to impairments in these abilities.
Bodily Sensation and Social Cognition
The lab is interested in how referring to one's own bodily information modulates social cognition. It studies the effect of interoception related to cardiac activity on facial expression recognition, and the relationship between skin sensations of warmth and coolness and attachment.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Osumi Lab consist of faculty members and graduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorTakahiro Osumi
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