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Kyoto University Institute for the Evolution of Human Behavior (Katsuki Nakamura) Lab
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The lab investigates the brain mechanisms and evolution of social behavior and language in humans and monkeys.
AboutAbout the lab
How did the brain that supports language and sociality evolve?
The Division of Cognitive Neural Mechanisms (Institute for the Evolution of Human Behavior) studies humans and monkeys, and aims to clarify the brain mechanisms that form the foundation of human behavioral traits such as social behavior, communication, and memory, as well as their evolutionary origins.
The lab uses a variety of methods, including neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and imaging methods.
Its central themes are elucidating the neural basis of spoken language, which is unique to humans, and the evolution of the cognitive functions that underlie language.
Key terms
- Neuroanatomy
- The field that studies the structure of the brain and nerves, such as which neurons connect to which
- Imaging methods
- Methods that make brain activity visible as images
- Disease model
- A model, such as an animal, in which a condition resembling a disease is reproduced in order to study how the disease works
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies humans and monkeys, and aims to clarify the neural mechanisms that underlie human behavioral traits such as social behavior, communication, and memory, and their evolutionary origins.
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MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKatsuki Nakamura
- Associate ProfessorIkuma Adachi
- Assistant ProfessorYuko Hattori
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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: “PSM V42 D022 Monkey brain displaying motor areas” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Evolution of the neural basis of language and cognition: “PSM V27 D081 Lateral aspect of monkey brain” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Human Evolution Studies Lab): “Chimpanzee in the wild variation” D.G.Kulakov https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:D.G.Kulakov&action=edit&redlink=1 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kyoto University Museum Lab): “Kyoto University Museum” J o / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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