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Tanabe Lab
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A cognitive neuroscience lab that simultaneously measures the brain activity of two people while they interact.
AboutAbout the lab
Measuring the brain activity of two interacting people at the same time.
The Cognitive Neuroscience Lab studies the psychological and neural mechanisms of social interaction, focusing on two people who are actually interacting.
Using EEG, MRI, eye trackers, and other tools, the lab simultaneously records the brain activity and behavior of two people who exchange gazes and words.
In collaboration with other researchers, the lab also continues research that estimates the shape of the brains of human ancestors from fossil skulls.
The lab belongs to the Psychology Division, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University.
Key terms
- hyperscanning
- A method for simultaneously measuring brain activity and other signals from multiple people who are interacting. This lab has built a hyperscanning setup in its laboratory
- inter-brain synchrony
- A phenomenon in which the brain activity of two interacting people changes in concert. It has been reported to increase depending on the task
- electroencephalography (EEG)
- A recording of the brain's electrical activity taken from the surface of the head
NewsLab news
A paper from a collaborative study was accepted by Human Brain Mapping, with a press release
A paper compiling the graduation research of a master's student was accepted by Human Environmental Studies (Ningen Kankyogaku Kenkyu)
A doctoral student received the Baba Encouragement Prize Outstanding Paper Award from the Association of Mathematical Education of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The Cognitive Neuroscience Lab simultaneously measures the brain activity of two people who are actually interacting with each other. It also works on research that reconstructs the shape of the brains of human ancestors from fossil skulls.
*Illustrative imageBrain activity when two people interact
The lab uses hyperscanning to simultaneously measure the brain activity of two people who exchange gazes and words. In a series of studies by a group at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (at the time), led by Professor Norihiro Sadato, inter-brain synchrony has been shown to increase in tasks where two people interact.
*Illustrative imageReconstructing the brain shapes of fossil humans
In collaboration with Professor Naomichi Ogihara and others, the lab estimated and reconstructed brain shapes from fossil skulls of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens and compared them. It is now continuing attempts to infer cognitive abilities from the brain shapes of australopithecines and early Homo.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members are faculty members and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiroki Tanabe
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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: “Institut of Psychology Szeged EEG Laboratory 1” Csaba Segesvári camera-man at Délmagyarország lapcom Kft. / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Brain activity when two people interact: “InclusiveGameLab Eyetracker 1 CC-BY-SA” InclusiveGameLab / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Reconstructing the brain shapes of fossil humans: “Skulls of our Ancestors” Ryan Somma from Occoquan, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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