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Ito Lab
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A cognitive science lab that explores how human intelligence works through thinking games such as shogi.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring human intelligence through the thinking behind shogi and Go
The Ito Lab studies, using methods from cognitive science, how the human mind works when people play thinking games such as shogi and Go.
The lab repeatedly predicts models of human information processing from the results of psychological experiments with expert players as participants, implements those models on computers, and examines their behavior.
The lab also works on measuring players' strength (playing rank) using game AI that has become sufficiently strong.
Key terms
- Cognitive science
- A field that tries to clarify how humans work by imitating human thought and behavior on computers.
- Intuitive thinking
- Thinking in which a person does not enumerate every possible move, but narrows down promising moves using knowledge backed by experience and makes a judgment.
- Game AI
- Computer programs that play games such as shogi and Go.
NewsLab news
Page for 2026 undergraduate thesis lab assignments is now available
A student received the Young Researcher Encouragement Award at the Special Interest Group on Game Informatics
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to clarify the mechanisms of expertise and intuitive thinking by investigating intelligent human behavior, moving back and forth between psychological experiments and models on computers. Using thinking games such as shogi and Go as subjects, it investigates how human experts think and decide on their next move.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Ito Lab are faculty members, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and collaborating researchers.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakeshi Ito
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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: “Kyoto Shogi-initial position” Surligne / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Extending Human Intelligence with Strong Game AI: “Go (13×” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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