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Furuyama Lab
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A lab that scientifically studies how gestures and storytelling function within interaction.
AboutAbout the lab
Investigating the role of the body in interaction
The Furuyama Lab studies what role the body plays in interactions between people.
Its foundations are the sociocultural approach in cognitive science and ecological psychology, and the graduate research program is named "Sociocultural Psychology."
The lab also draws on neighboring fields such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and semiotics, and conducts research across disciplines.
The lab proposes and conducts empirical studies of embodied behavior such as gestures and speech.
Key terms
- Ecological psychology
- A psychology that does not separate people from their environment, and understands perception and action in terms of their relationship with it
- Affordance
- The cues that an object or environment offers to a person using it, indicating what can be done with it
- Interaction
- People creating a shared situation together by responding to each other's movements and words
ResearchResearch themes
The lab proposes and conducts empirical research from the perspectives of the sociocultural approach in cognitive science, ecological psychology, and neighboring fields such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and semiotics. Its main focus is communication involving the body, such as gestures and speech.
*Illustrative imageHow Ensemble Players Synchronize
In ensemble playing, who leads and who follows shows up in bodily movement. By recording actual performances, the lab studies the movements of violin ensembles and how the relationships players build during rehearsal affect their performance on the day.
*Illustrative imageJudging Whether You Can Fit Through a Gap
People judge in an instant, while approaching, whether they can pass through a narrow gap. The lab proposes a new hypothesis, extending the tau theory of ecological psychology, about the perceptual information used for that judgment.
*Illustrative imagePlaying Different Roles in Kabuki
In kabuki, a single actor plays both female roles (onnagata) and male roles (tachiyaku). The lab analyzes where and how the difference appears in the actor's body movements, as a study of embodied expression.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorNobuhiro Furuyama
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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: “Female Bunraku puppet Japan, early 20th century” Hiart / CC0 (cropped)
- How Ensemble Players Synchronize: “Casals Forum, Arensky string quartet encore” Gerda Arendt / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Judging Whether You Can Fit Through a Gap: “D 93 Luc direction Gap - Claps - Rétrécissement” Tabl-trai / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Playing Different Roles in Kabuki: “Children kabuki theater in Nagahama (lady Shizuka, 10 y.o.); 2013” lensonjapan from Osaka, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Ohta Lab): “Seawifs global biosphere” Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Kazama Lab): “Black-tailed gull” Bamse / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Toyama Lab): “Kamai Park Composite Playground Equipment” Harimawood / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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