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Cognitive Science Lab (Masaki Matsubara)
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A lab that explores self-awareness through bodily sensation and artistic expression.
AboutAbout the lab
Nurturing self-awareness through artistic expression of embodied knowledge.
The Matsubara Lab studies how artistic expressions of embodied knowledge, such as voice, song, dance, and prayer, awaken self-awareness.
The lab holds that bodily artistic expression, which draws on art therapy and embodied-knowledge education, can bring about a transformation of consciousness at the bodily level, nonverbally and unconsciously.
The lab collects such practices for transforming consciousness and is developing theory-based models of them.
Through this modeling, the lab aims to develop kata-kotoba (words in set forms), bodywork, and experiential curricula, and to deliver them to the people who need them.
Key terms
- Embodied knowledge
- Knowledge gained through bodily sensation. The lab also deals with how to refine and convey sensibilities that are hard to put into words.
- Bodywork
- Practices that use the body, such as meditation and introspection, to become aware of one's own bodily sensations.
- Umwelt
- The world as each living creature perceives it through its own senses.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the process by which artistic expression, guided by images welling up from within the body, fosters awareness of one's authentic self and compassion for others. Rather than letting their senses be dulled by the average output of AI, the lab recognizes that each person has a different body and sensibility, and it values knowing one's own standards of value and way of being.
*Illustrative imageArt Therapy and Learning Embodied Knowledge
The lab studies meditation and introspective bodywork that cultivate awareness of bodily sensations rooted in one's own life story, as well as theater work and various Steiner education practices in which sensibilities are shared with others and brought back to oneself.
*Illustrative imageTacit Knowledge in Indigenous Folk Performing Arts and Martial Arts
The lab studies ways to refine and convey sensibilities that are hard to put into words. It works with bodywork that helps people notice how the body is aware of the earth and the cosmos and interacts with nature, with kata-kotoba, and with the design of interactions with AI that promote metacognition.
*Illustrative imageConveying and Sharing Umwelten
The lab studies the modeling of individual characteristics for enriching sensibility by taking in the perspectives of others, as well as sensory-exchange mechanisms in which one is possessed by another person. It also works on inclusive bodywork in which people with different sensibilities can learn embodied knowledge together.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorMasaki Matsubara
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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: “Padmasana - Yoga Class - Chamrail - Howrah” Biswarup Ganguly / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Art Therapy and Learning Embodied Knowledge: “Meditation at Empty Cloud” Rikku411 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Tacit Knowledge in Indigenous Folk Performing Arts and Martial Arts: “Suzu MET DP353272” 作者不詳 / CC0 (cropped)
- Conveying and Sharing Umwelten: “Autism Aspect Sensory Sensitivity 1” MissLunaRose12 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (School Libraries Lab (Haruki Ono)): “Students at the library of Taihoku High School 02” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Higher Education Lab): “Students in a university classroom in Tennessee 05” Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cultural Anthropology (Junko Teruyama) Lab): “Children's Playground at King George V Playing Fields - geograph.org.uk - 3929911” Geographer / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Communication Understanding Lab): “Sign language interpreter, 2012 (01)” Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (boellstiftung) / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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