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Tomonori Sano, Professor
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Sano Lab conducts practical research on the usability, ease of understanding, and safety of architecture, cities, and interiors. With human-centered design as its main focus in planning architecture and cities, the lab proposes solutions to problems through field surveys and laboratory experiments. It uses a variety of methods suited to each subject, such as observing human behavior, investigating psychology, and exploring mechanisms through experiments and simulations. With the keyword "human–space–time system," the lab views the relationship between people and the environment from a perspective that combines three "ma" (間), the character shared by the words for people (人間), space (空間), and time (時間).
Noriko Toyama, Professor
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Toyama Lab studies child development. Its research supervision title in the graduate school is "Developmental Motivation Theory." From the very earliest stages of development, children have built-in biases to direct attention to particular information and process it in particular ways. The lab views development as what proceeds through the interaction between this cognitive foundation and the environment, including other people, objects, and the customs of a society. Through observation and experiments, it explores the acquisition of knowledge and skills, the kind of environment that supports children's motivation, children's behavior in that environment, and their interactions with others.
Nobuhiro Furuyama, Professor
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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.
Noburo Saji, Associate Professor
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The Saji Lab studies how people come to acquire the meanings of words. The graduate research program is named "Developmental Science of Meaning Generation." The lab holds that word meaning arises in the gap between two things: perception, which makes sense of the world in front of us through the body, and culture, the ways of making meaning that members of a society have built up over a long time. The lab addresses how children and adults acquire linguistic meaning, and how this affects the development of thought and communication. It examines these questions experimentally from several angles: embodiment, social cognitive abilities, the nature of language as a system of signs, features of individual languages, and features of culture.
Atsushi Yamamoto, Lecturer
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The Yamamoto Lab specializes in cognitive science. The undergraduate lab seminar is called "Social Affordance Psychology." The lab studies how perception and the body work when people interact with their surrounding environment and with other people. It focuses on bodily skills and on how multiple cues, such as gaze, gestures, and words, are used at the same time. The lab uses interaction analysis, a method of recording actual interactions and describing them in fine detail.
Rieko Osu, Professor
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Osu Lab is a cognitive neuroscience lab that investigates how the mind and body work, using the functions of the brain as a clue. In choosing actions and in learning, brain processes that never reach awareness, and that questionnaires cannot capture, play a major role. The lab therefore measures brain activity, behavioral indicators, and physiological indicators to shed light on these hidden mechanisms. Centered on embodiment, learning and plasticity, emotion, and sociality, it pursues basic research as well as applications such as rehabilitation and marketing.
Jun Kohyama, Professor
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Kohyama Lab studies how neurons are generated, using the functions of stem cells as a clue. Its fields are stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, and it uses methods from physiology, neuroscience, and molecular biology. The lab generates neural cells from human iPS cells and investigates how the function of genes determines cell fate. These findings are expected to provide clues for understanding the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders and brain tumors.
Shinichi Sakakibara, Professor
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Sakakibara Lab studies, at the molecular level, how the brain is built and protected. Building a mammalian brain requires strict control of the division and differentiation of neural stem cells. The lab therefore searches for new molecules that regulate neural stem cells and investigates how proteins are regulated after they are made. The genes it has found act beyond the brain: in a collaboration with another university, they were also shown to support lipid metabolism in the liver.
Takuya Chiba, Professor
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The Chiba Lab studies how aging works and develops ways to prevent it. This field, which approaches aging with the methods of molecular biology and experimental pathology, is also known as biogerontology. Aging is one of the major risk factors for cancer, lifestyle-related diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. The lab therefore aims to lead to the development of drugs, Kampo and herbal medicines, and functional foods that slow aging.
Taichi Hara, Professor
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The Hara Lab uses the methods of food science and life science to tackle the health problems of a rapidly aging, low-birthrate society. The lab searches for functional ingredients in foods and natural products and clarifies how they act on the body. It aims to restore the "mibyo" stage, in which a person is not ill but not well, through the power of diet before relying on medication. The goal is to apply these results to disease prevention and to improving quality of life (QOL).
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