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Ayahito Ito
Section
Graduate School of Education
Job title
Senior Assistant Professor
Degree

  • Ph.D. (Tohoku University)

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00722307
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略歴：1984年北海道生まれ。北海道大学医学部保健学科作業療法学専攻卒業（作業療法士免許取得）。東北大学大学院医学系研究科博士後期課程修了（博士（障害科学））。京都大学こころの未来研究センター（現・人と社会の未来研究院）JSPS特別研究員PD、東北福祉大学感性福祉研究所特任講師、英国ヨーク大学心理学部およびサウサンプトン大学心理学部JSPS海外特別研究員、高知工科大学フューチャー・デザイン研究所講師を経て、2023年より現職。専門は社会神経科学・社会心理学。リアルワールド・パラダイムを用いたヒトのコミュニケーションに関わる認知・神経メカニズムの研究を基盤に、近年は地域における居場所づくり（「コミュニティー・シェッド」「メンズ・シェッド」など）を中心とした社会的孤立・孤独の一次予防に関する実践・効果検証・基礎研究に取り組む（JST-RISTEX「シチズンサポートプロジェクトによる社会的孤立・孤独の一次予防」（内閣府第3回総合知活用事例採択）、JSPS海外連携研究「コミュニティーを基盤とした孤独・孤立予防の国際研究拠点 」など）。日本コミュニティー・シェッド協会創立者・代表理事、国際コンソーシアムInternational Centre for Community-based Loneliness Prevention (ICCLP) Founder, Executive Director。 これまでに第22回（令和7年度）日本学術振興会賞、令和6年度科学技術分野の文部科学大臣表彰若手科学者賞などを受賞。

伊藤研究室HP　

JST-RISTEX「シチズンサポートプロジェクトによる社会的孤立・孤独の一次予防」

日本コミュニティー・シェッド協会

Biography: Ayahito Ito was born in Hokkaido in 1984. He graduated from the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University (licensed occupational therapist), and received his Ph.D. in Disability Science from the Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University. He subsequently served as a JSPS Research Fellow (PD) at the Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University (now the Institute for the Future of Human Society), a Specially Appointed Lecturer at the Kansei Fukushi Research Institute, Tohoku Fukushi University, and a JSPS Overseas Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of York, and the Department of Psychology, University of Southampton. He later worked as a Lecturer at the Research Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology, before assuming his current position in 2023. His research specializes in social neuroscience and social psychology. Building on studies of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying human communication, his recent work focuses on the creation of inclusive community spaces (“Community Sheds” and “Men’s Sheds”) and the primary prevention of social isolation and loneliness. He has been engaged in practical initiatives, evaluation studies, and basic research in this field, including the JST-RISTEX project “Citizen Support Project for Preventing Social Isolation and Loneliness” (adopted as a Cabinet Office Comprehensive Knowledge Utilization Case, 3rd round), and the JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Collaborative Research) “An International Research Hub for Community-based Prevention of Loneliness and Social Isolation.” He is the Founder and Chair of the Japan Community Sheds Association, and the Founder and Executive Director of the international consortium International Centre for Community-based Loneliness Prevention (ICCLP). His awards include the JSPS Prize (2025), the MEXT Young Scientists’ Prize (2024) among others.

Ito lab HP

JST-RISTEX Citizen Support Project for Preventing Social Isolation and Loneliness

Japan Community Sheds Association (JCSA)

Research History 9

  • 2025/12 - Present
    Nottingham Trent University　School of Social Sciences　Senior Visiting Fellow

  • 2024/05 - Present
    Tohoku University

  • 2023/04 - Present
    Tohoku University　Graduate School of Education　Lecturer

  • 2019/08 - 2023/03
    Kochi University of Technology　Research Institute for Future Design　Lecturer

  • 2018/09 - 2019/07
    University of Southampton　Department of Psychology　research associate

  • 2017/08 - 2018/08
    University of York　Department of Pschology　Postdoctoral research associate

  • 2014/10 - 2017/07
    Tohoku Fukushi University　Kansei Fukushi Research Institute　Research Lecturer

  • 2013/04 - 2014/09
    Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University　JSPS Research Fellow (PD)

  • 2010/04 - 2012/03
    Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine　JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)

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Education 3

  • Tohoku University　Graduate School of Medicine　Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience

    2010/04 - 2013/03

  • Tohoku University　Graduate School of Medicine　Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience

    2008/04 - 2010/03

  • Hokkaido University　Faculty of Health Sciences　Division of Occupational Therapy

    2004/04 - 2008/03

Committee Memberships 5

  • International Centre for Community-based Lonelienss Prevention (ICCLP)　Ayahito Ito, Clifford Stevenson, Alex Haslam, Catherine Haslam, Niamh McNamara, Risa Takashima

    2024/05 - Present

  • Japan Community Sheds Association　Executive director

    2022/10 - Present

  • 作業療法神経科学研究会　理事

    2014 - Present

  • Frontiers in Psychology (Cognitive Science)　Guest Associate Editor

    2021 - 2023

  • Frontiers in Psychology (Emotion Science)　Review Editor

    2021 - 2022

Research Interests 10

  • social interaction

  • social identity

  • social connectedness

  • Men's Shed

  • Community Shed

  • 作業療法

  • 社会心理学

  • 実験心理学

  • social neuroscience

  • cognitive neuroscience

Research Areas 4

  • Life sciences / Rehabilitation science /

  • Humanities & social sciences / Experimental psychology /

  • Humanities & social sciences / Cognitive sciences /

  • Life sciences / Neuroscience - general /

Awards 5

  1. JSPS

    2025

  2. The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, The Young Scientists’ Award

    2024

  3. Top proize, Shinyu Graduate Research Excellent Award at Tohoku University

    2013　東北大学大学院医学系研究科

  4. 若手奨励賞

    2012　第14回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会

  5. 若手奨励賞

    2011　第13回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会

Papers 32

  1. Neurocomputational mechanisms of maladaptive behaviors in loneliness Peer-reviewed

    Gabriele Bellucci, Hirotaka Imada, Anne-Kathrin Fett, Ayahito Ito

    Trends in Cognitive Sciences　30　251-263　2026/03

  2. Self-referential judgments from the same personality trait scales show increased representational similarity in mPFC Peer-reviewed

    Keise Izuma, Ayahito Ito, Kazuki Yoshida, Ryuta Aoki

    Communications Psychology　3　(187)　2025/12

  3. Online Social Identity Mapping (oSIM) in Japan Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Toshiyuki Himichi, Hirotaka Imada, Risa Takashima, S. Alexander Haslam, Blake Mcmillan, Tasuku Igarashi

    Japanese Psychological Research　2025/05/30

    DOI： 10.1111/jpr.12591 　

  4. The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries Peer-reviewed

    Kimberly C Doell, Boryana Todorova, Madalina Vlasceanu, Joseph B Bak Coleman, Ekaterina Pronizius, Philipp Schumann, Flavio Azevedo, Yash Patel, Michael M Berkebile-Wineberg, Cameron Brick, Florian Lange, Samantha J Grayson, Yifei Pei, Alek Chakroff, Karlijn L van, den Broek, Claus Lamm, Denisa Vlasceanu, Sara M Constantino, Steve Rathje, Danielle Goldwer, Ke Fang, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Mark Alfano, Andy J Alvarado-Yepez, Angélica Andersen, Frederik Anseel, Matthew AJ, Apps, Chillar Asadli, Fonda Jane Awuor, Piero Basaglia, Jocelyn J Bélanger, Sebastian Berger, Paul Bertin, Michał Białek, Olga Bialobrzeska, Michelle Blaya-Burgo, Daniëlle NM Bleize, Simen Bø, Lea Boecker, Paulo S Boggio, Sylvie Borau, Sylvie Borau, Björn Bos, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Markus Brauer, Tymofii Brik, Roman Briker, Tobias Brosch, Ondrej Buchel, Daniel Buonauro, Radhika Butalia, Héctor Carvacho, Sarah AE Chamberlain, Hang-Yee Chan, Dawn Chow, Dongil Chung, Luca Cian, Noa Cohen-Eick, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Davide Contu, Vladimir Cristea, Jo Cutler, Silvana D’Ottone, Jonas De keersmaecker, Sarah Delcour, Sylvain Delouvée, Kathi Diel, Benjamin D Douglas, Moritz A Drupp, Shreya Dubey, Jānis Ekmanis, Christian T Elbaek, Mahmoud Elsherif, Iris M Engelhard, Yannik A Escher, Tom W Etienne, Laura Farage, Ana Rita Farias, Stefan Feuerriegel, Andrej Findor, Lucia Freira, Malte Friese, Neil Philip Gains, Albina Gallyamova, Sandra J Geiger, Oliver Genschow, Biljana Gjoneska, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Beth Goldberg, Amit Goldenberg, Sarah Gradidge, Simone Grassini, Kurt Gray, Sonja Grelle, Siobhán M Griffin, Lusine Grigoryan, Ani Grigoryan, Dmitry Grigoryev, June Gruber, Johnrev Guilaran, Britt Hadar, Ulf JJ Hahnel, Eran Halperin, Annelie J Harvey, Christian AP Haugestad, Aleksandra M Herman, Hal E Hershfield, Toshiyuki Himichi, Donald W Hine, Wilhelm Hofmann, Lauren Howe, Enma T Huaman-Chulluncuy, Guanxiong Huang, Tatsunori Ishii, Ayahito Ito, Fanli Jia, John T Jos, Veljko Jovanović, Dominika Jurgiel, Ondřej Kácha, Reeta Kankaanpää, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Keren Kaplan Mintz, Ilker Kaya, Ozgur Kaya, Narine Khachatryan, Anna Klas, Colin Klein, Christian A Klöckner, Lina Koppel, Alexandra I Kosachenko, Emily J Kothe, Ruth Krebs, Amy R Krosch, Andre PM Krouwel, Yara Kyrychenko, Maria Lagomarsino, Julia Lee Cunningham, Jeffrey Lees, Tak Yan Leung, Neil Levy, Patricia L Lockwood, Chiara Longoni, Alberto López Ortega, David D Loschelder, Jackson G Lu, Yu Luo, Joseph Luomba, Annika E Lutz

    Scientific Data　11　(1)　1066　2024/10/01

  5. Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly C Doell, Joseph B Bak-Coleman, Boryana Todorova, Michael M Berkebile-Weinberg, Samantha J Grayson, Yash Patel, Danielle Goldwert, Yifei Pei, Alek Chakroff, Ekaterina Pronizius, Karlijn L van den Broek, Denisa Vlasceanu, Sara Constantino, Michael J Morais, Philipp Schumann, Steve Rathje, Ke Fang, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Mark Alfano, Andy J Alvarado-Yepez, Angélica Andersen, Frederik Anseel, Matthew A J Apps, Chillar Asadli, Fonda Jane Awuor, Flavio Azevedo, Piero Basaglia, Jocelyn J Bélanger, Sebastian Berger, Paul Bertin, Michał Białek, Olga Bialobrzeska, Michelle Blaya-Burgo, Daniëlle N M Bleize, Simen Bø, Lea Boecker, Paulo S Boggio, Sylvie Borau, Björn Bos, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Markus Brauer, Cameron Brick, Tymofii Brik, Roman Briker, Tobias Brosch, Ondrej Buchel, Daniel Buonauro, Radhika Butalia, Héctor Carvacho, Sarah A E Chamberlain, Hang-Yee Chan, Dawn Chow, Dongil Chung, Luca Cian, Noa Cohen-Eick, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Davide Contu, Vladimir Cristea, Jo Cutler, Silvana D'Ottone, Jonas De Keersmaecker, Sarah Delcourt, Sylvain Delouvée, Kathi Diel, Benjamin D Douglas, Moritz A Drupp, Shreya Dubey, Jānis Ekmanis, Christian T Elbaek, Mahmoud Elsherif, Iris M Engelhard, Yannik A Escher, Tom W Etienne, Laura Farage, Ana Rita Farias, Stefan Feuerriegel, Andrej Findor, Lucia Freira, Malte Friese, Neil Philip Gains, Albina Gallyamova, Sandra J Geiger, Oliver Genschow, Biljana Gjoneska, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Beth Goldberg, Amit Goldenberg, Sarah Gradidge, Simone Grassini, Kurt Gray, Sonja Grelle, Siobhán M Griffin, Lusine Grigoryan, Ani Grigoryan, Dmitry Grigoryev, June Gruber, Johnrev Guilaran, Britt Hadar, Ulf J J Hahnel, Eran Halperin, Annelie J Harvey, Christian A P Haugestad, Aleksandra M Herman, Hal E Hershfield, Toshiyuki Himichi, Donald W Hine, Wilhelm Hofmann, Lauren Howe, Enma T Huaman-Chulluncuy, Guanxiong Huang, Tatsunori Ishii, Ayahito Ito, Fanli Jia, John T Jost, Veljko Jovanović, Dominika Jurgiel, Ondřej Kácha, Reeta Kankaanpää, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Keren Kaplan Mintz, Ilker Kaya, Ozgur Kaya, Narine Khachatryan, Anna Klas, Colin Klein, Christian A Klöckner, Lina Koppel, Alexandra I Kosachenko, Emily J Kothe, Ruth Krebs, Amy R Krosch, Andre P M Krouwel, Yara Kyrychenko, Maria Lagomarsino, Claus Lamm, Florian Lange, Julia Lee Cunningham, Jeffrey Lees, Tak Yan Leung, Neil Levy, Patricia L Lockwood, Chiara Longoni, Alberto López Ortega, David D Loschelder, Jackson G Lu, Yu Luo, Joseph Luomba, Annika E Lutz, Johann M Majer, Ezra Markowitz, Abigail A Marsh, Karen Louise Mascarenhas, Bwambale Mbilingi, Winfred Mbungu, Cillian McHugh, Marijn H C Meijers, Hugo Mercier, Fenant Laurent Mhagama, Katerina Michalakis, Nace Mikus, Sarah Milliron, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Fredy S Monge-Rodríguez, Youri L Mora, David Moreau, Kosuke Motoki, Manuel Moyano, Mathilde Mus, Joaquin Navajas, Tam Luong Nguyen, Dung Minh Nguyen, Trieu Nguyen, Laura Niemi, Sari R R Nijssen, Gustav Nilsonne, Jonas P Nitschke, Laila Nockur, Ritah Okura, Sezin Öner, Asil Ali Özdoğru, Helena Palumbo, Costas Panagopoulos, Maria Serena Panasiti, Philip Pärnamets, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Yuri G Pavlov, César Payán-Gómez, Adam R Pearson, Leonor Pereira da Costa, Hannes M Petrowsky, Stefan Pfattheicher, Nhat Tan Pham, Vladimir Ponizovskiy, Clara Pretus, Gabriel G Rêgo, Ritsaart Reimann, Shawn A Rhoads, Julian Riano-Moreno, Isabell Richter, Jan Philipp Röer, Jahred Rosa-Sullivan, Robert M Ross, Anandita Sabherwal, Toshiki Saito, Oriane Sarrasin, Nicolas Say, Katharina Schmid, Michael T Schmitt, Philipp Schoenegger, Christin Scholz, Mariah G Schug, Stefan Schulreich, Ganga Shreedhar, Eric Shuman, Smadar Sivan, Hallgeir Sjåstad, Meikel Soliman, Katia Soud, Tobia Spampatti, Gregg Sparkman, Ognen Spasovski, Samantha K Stanley, Jessica A Stern, Noel Strahm, Yasushi Suko, Sunhae Sul, Stylianos Syropoulos, Neil C Taylor, Elisa Tedaldi, Gustav Tinghög, Luu Duc Toan Huynh, Giovanni Antonio Travaglino, Manos Tsakiris, İlayda Tüter, Michael Tyrala, Özden Melis Uluğ, Arkadiusz Urbanek, Danila Valko, Sander van der Linden, Kevin van Schie, Aart van Stekelenburg, Edmunds Vanags, Daniel Västfjäll, Stepan Vesely, Jáchym Vintr, Marek Vranka, Patrick Otuo Wanguche, Robb Willer, Adrian Dominik Wojcik, Rachel Xu, Anjali Yadav, Magdalena Zawisza, Xian Zhao, Jiaying Zhao, Dawid Żuk, Jay J Van Bavel

    Science advances　10　(6)　eadj5778　2024/02/09

    DOI： 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778 　

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    Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions' effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior-several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people's initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors.

  6. A priori prediction of therapist-client compatibility for better therapy outcomes: Possible procedure using resting-state fMRI data and machine learning algorithm Peer-reviewed

    Shogo Kajimura, Ayahito Ito

    Journal of Rehabilitation Neurosciences　23　(1)　231701　2023

  7. Validity and Reliability of the Japanese Version of the Sustainability Consciousness Questionnaire International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Hiroyoshi Ogishima, Ayahito Ito, Shogo Kajimura, Toshiyuki Himichi

    Frontiers in Psychology　14　1130550-1130550　2023

    DOI： 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1130550 　

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    The sustainable development goals (SDGs) are required to be achieved by 2030, and measurement indicators are needed to properly visualize individual efforts toward SDGs. Here, we developed a Japanese version of the Sustainability Consciousness Questionnaire (SCQ), the most well-known individual measure of SDGs, and examined its reliability and validity. Three online surveys were conducted with 1,268 Japanese adults. The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Japanese version of the SCQ consists of two single-level factors: sustainability knowingness/attitude and sustainability behavior. These two factors demonstrated sufficient internal consistency by Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega coefficient, which ensured measurement reliability. Additionally, cocorrelations with other scales indicated that the higher the level of sustainability knowledge and attitude, the less positive attitude toward climate change and the higher the level of sustainability behavior, indicating the construct validity of these factors. These results indicate that the Japanese version of the SCQ is reliable and valid.

  8. Quality of therapy and mental health among occupational therapists during the COVID-19 pandemic International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Daisuke Sawamura, Shogo Kajimura, Hideki Miyaguchi, Haruki Nakamura, Toshiyuki Ishioka

    Frontiers in Public Health　10　1053703-1053703　2022/12

    Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

    DOI： 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1053703 　

    eISSN： 2296-2565

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    Introduction The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has had a severe psychological impact on occupational therapists. Clarifying the mental health status of occupational therapists and its relationship with therapy quality is essential for maintaining the quality of care and patients' quality of life. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate whether and how mental health problems are related to the quality of occupational therapy. Methods A nationwide cross-sectional online survey was conducted during Japan's second national state of emergency (January 2021). A total of 4,418 registered occupational therapists who were members of the Japanese Association of Occupational Therapists participated in this study. After screening for the exclusion criteria, data from 1,966 participants were analyzed. Results Path analysis showed that insufficient information provision by the workplace and increased workload were associated with depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Specifically, depression was associated with decreased therapy quality. Furthermore, one's therapy quality showed a strong positive correlation with colleagues' therapy quality. Discussion These results demonstrated a direct link between therapists' mental health conditions and therapy quality and suggested that decreased therapy quality might occur at the institutional rather than individual level. A reassessment of the support system and prompt detection and support for professionals with psychological symptoms may be the key to enhancing therapy quality and patients' quality of life. The present results contribute to the understanding of these relationships, considering the current pandemic context for occupational therapists.

  9. The Brain Understands Social Relationships: The Emerging Field of Functional-Connectome-Based Interpersonal Research Invited Peer-reviewed

    Shogo Kajimura, Ayahito Ito

    Neuroscience Insights　17　1-5　2022/01

    DOI： 10.1177/26331055221119443 　

  10. Different Impacts of COVID-19 on Quality of Therapy, Psychological Condition, and Work Life Among Occupational Therapists in Physical and Mental Health Fields International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Daisuke Sawamura, Ayahito Ito, Hideki Miyaguchi, Haruki Nakamura, Toshiyuki Ishioka

    Frontiers in Public Health　10　887069-887069　2022

    DOI： 10.3389/fpubh.2022.887069 　

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    BACKGROUND: The negative impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have worsened the quality of therapy, psychological condition, and work life of second-line healthcare workers and occupational therapists (OTs). However, no study has investigated whether the impact of COVID-19 varies among OTs working in different fields. This study aimed to investigate the differences on the impact of COVID-19 between OTs in the physical and mental health fields. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in Japan between January 20 and January 25, 2021. A total of 4,418 registered OTs who were members of the Japanese Association of Occupational Therapists volunteered for this study. After screening using the exclusion criteria, 1,383 participants were classified into two groups based on their field (mental health and physical health), and their quality of therapy, psychological condition, and work life were analyzed. RESULTS: OTs in the mental health field showed a greater decrease in therapy quality and increase in workload and a lower rate of decrease in working hours than those in the physical health field. In the multinomial logistic regression analysis, decreased and increased therapy quality and decreased therapy quality were significantly associated with depression in the physical health field, and decreased therapy quality was associated with insomnia in the mental health field. Furthermore, insomnia and anxiety were commonly associated with increased workload and working hours, respectively, in both fields, whereas anxiety and depression were associated with increased workload only in the physical health field. CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate that COVID-19 differently impacted quality of treatment, workload, work time, and psychological condition in the physical and mental health fields; moreover, the relationships among these are different in these two fields. These results highlight the importance of investigating the field-specific negative impacts of COVID-19 on OTs and may provide helpful information for devising tailored and effective prevention and intervention strategies to address these challenges.

  11. The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in preferential decisions for own- and other-age faces International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Kazuki Yoshida, Ryuta Aoki, Toshikatsu Fujii, Iori Kawasaki, Akiko Hayashi, Aya Ueno, Shinya Sakai, Shunji Mugikura, Shoki Takahashi, Etsuro Mori

    Frontiers in Psychology　13　822234-822234　2022

    DOI： 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.822234 　

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    Own-age bias is a well-known bias reflecting the effects of age, and its role has been demonstrated, particularly, in face recognition. However, it remains unclear whether an own-age bias exists in facial impression formation. In the present study, we used three datasets from two published and one unpublished functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study that employed the same pleasantness rating task with fMRI scanning and preferential choice task after the fMRI to investigate whether healthy young and older participants showed own-age effects in face preference. Specifically, we employed a drift-diffusion model to elaborate the existence of own-age bias in the processes of preferential choice. The behavioral results showed higher rating scores and higher drift rate for young faces than for older faces, regardless of the ages of participants. We identified a young-age effect, but not an own-age effect. Neuroimaging results from aggregation analysis of the three datasets suggest a possibility that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) was associated with evidence accumulation of own-age faces; however, no clear evidence was provided. Importantly, we found no age-related decline in the responsiveness of the vmPFC to subjective pleasantness of faces, and both young and older participants showed a contribution of the vmPFC to the parametric representation of the subjective value of face and functional coupling between the vmPFC and ventral visual area, which reflects face preference. These results suggest that the preferential choice of face is less susceptible to the own-age bias across the lifespan of individuals.

  12. Brain Knows Who Is on the Same Wavelength: Resting-State Connectivity Can Predict Compatibility of a Female-Male Relationship. International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Shogo Kajimura, Ayahito Ito, Keise Izuma

    Cerebral cortex　31　5077-5089　2021/10/06

    DOI： 10.1093/cercor/bhab143 　

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    Prediction of the initial compatibility of heterosexual individuals based on self-reported traits and preferences has not been successful, even with significantly developed information technology. To overcome the limitations of self-reported measures and predict compatibility, we used functional connectivity profiles from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data that carry rich individual-specific information sufficient to predict psychological constructs and activation patterns during social cognitive tasks. Several days after collecting data from resting-state fMRIs, participants undertook a speed-dating experiment in which they had a 3-min speed date with every other opposite-sex participant. Our machine learning algorithm successfully predicted whether pairs in the experiment were compatible or not using (dis)similarity of functional connectivity profiles obtained before the experiment. The similarity and dissimilarity of functional connectivity between individuals and these multivariate relationships contributed to the prediction, hence suggesting the importance of complementarity (observed as dissimilarity) as well as the similarity between an individual and a potential partner during the initial attraction phase. The result indicates that the salience network, limbic areas, and cerebellum are especially important for the feeling of compatibility. This research emphasizes the utility of neural information to predict complex phenomena in a social environment that behavioral measures alone cannot predict.

  13. Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Occupational Therapists: An Online Survey in Japan Peer-reviewed

    Ishioka T, Ito A, Miyaguchi H, Nakamura H, Sawamura D

    American Journal of Occupational Therapy　75　7504205010　2021/06

  14. Testing the reinforcement learning hypothesis of social conformity. International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Marie Levorsen, Ayahito Ito, Shinsuke Suzuki, Keise Izuma

    Human brain mapping　42　(5)　1328-1342　2021/04/01

    DOI： 10.1002/hbm.25296 　

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    Our preferences are influenced by the opinions of others. The past human neuroimaging studies on social conformity have identified a network of brain regions related to social conformity that includes the posterior medial frontal cortex (pMFC), anterior insula, and striatum. Since these brain regions are also known to play important roles in reinforcement learning (i.e., processing prediction error), it was previously hypothesized that social conformity and reinforcement learning have a common neural mechanism. However, although this view is currently widely accepted, these two processes have never been directly compared; therefore, the extent to which they shared a common neural mechanism had remained unclear. This study aimed to formally test the hypothesis. The same group of participants (n = 25) performed social conformity and reinforcement learning tasks inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. Univariate fMRI data analyses revealed activation overlaps in the pMFC and bilateral insula between social conflict and unsigned prediction error and in the striatum between social conflict and signed prediction error. We further conducted multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) for more direct evidence of a shared neural mechanism. MVPA did not reveal any evidence to support the hypothesis in any of these regions but found that activation patterns between social conflict and prediction error in these regions were largely distinct. Taken together, the present study provides no clear evidence of a common neural mechanism between social conformity and reinforcement learning.

  15. How can neuroscience contribute to the science of intergenerational sustainability?

    Aoki R, Ito A, Izuma K, Saijo T

    Social Design Engineering Series　http://www.souken.kochi-tech.ac.jp/seido/wp/SDES-2020-11.pdf　2020/08

  16. The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in automatic formation of impression and reflected impression. International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Kazuki Yoshida, Kenta Takeda, Daisuke Sawamura, Yui Murakami, Ai Hasegawa, Shinya Sakai, Keise Izuma

    Human brain mapping　41　(11)　3045-3058　2020/08/01

    DOI： 10.1002/hbm.24996 　

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    Previous neuroimaging studies demonstrated that ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) activity reflects how much an individual positively views each person (impression). Here, we investigated whether the degree to which individuals think others positively view them (reflected impression) is similarly tracked by activity in the vmPFC by using fMRI and speed-dating events. We also examined whether activity of the vmPFC in response to the faces of others would predict the impression formed through direct interactions with them. The task consisted of three sessions: pre-speed-dating fMRI, speed-dating events, and post-speed-dating fMRI (not reported here). During the pre-speed-dating fMRI, each participant passively viewed the faces of others whom they would meet in the subsequent speed-dating events. After the fMRI, they rated the impression and reflected impression of each face. During the speed-dating events, the participants had 3-min conversations with partners whose faces were presented during the fMRI task, and they were asked to choose the partners whom they preferred at the end of the events. The results revealed that the value of both the impression and reflected impression were automatically represented in the vmPFC. However, the impression fully mediated the link between the reflected impression and vmPFC activity. These results highlight a close link between reflected appraisal and impression formation and provide important insights into neural and psychological models of how the reflected impression is formed in the human brain.

  17. Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of rehabilitation therapists Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Toshiyuki Ishioka

    Journal of Rehabilitation Neurosciences　20　(1)　19-23　2020

    Publisher: Japanese Society for Brain Function and Rehabilitation

    DOI： 10.24799/jrehabilneurosci.200512 　

    ISSN： 2434-2629

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    Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a profound impact on our society, and health care professionals are challenged by the present outbreak. A recent study showed that a significant proportion of second-line workers and frontline workers experienced psychological distress. Although these findings suggest the possibility that rehabilitation therapists, especially those who work at the hospital, experience psychological distress, their mental health state has been largely dismissed and the number of an evidence-based practice is limited. Here, we discuss the importance of focusing on the mental health of therapists by introducing studies that focus on the mental health of health care workers during the COVID-19, SARS, and H1N1 influenza pandemics. We then noted the need to track the dynamic relationship between the mental health of therapists and the COVID-19 pandemic by employing longitudinal data collection with psychological measures that reliably and validly capture the mental health of therapists. This approach would be effective for preparation for future pandemics, as we have learned much from previous pandemics. We hope that our Tutorial Note will help readers who are interested in the mental health of rehabilitation therapists and encourage future studies.

  18. Effect of aging on choice-induced cognitive conflict. International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Yousuke Kawachi, Iori Kawasaki, Toshikatsu Fujii

    Behavioural brain research　363　94-102　2019/05/02

    DOI： 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.01.053 　

    ISSN： 0166-4328

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    When individuals are forced to choose between similarly preferable alternatives, a negatively arousing cognitive conflict occurs, and the preference attitudes toward the chosen and rejected alternatives diverge. This phenomenon, often referred to as "cognitive dissonance", is of interest in psychological and decision neuroscience research. The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) is involved in representing the cognitive conflict induced by difficult-choice tasks. Previous studies have shown age-related decline of the dACC function. However, whether the heightened activity of the dACC regarding cognitive conflict, and choice-induced preference change that behaviorally occur in young subjects also occur in the elderly is unclear. Furthermore, recent studies have noted substantial methodological flaw with the free-choice paradigm that often used in studies focusing on cognitive dissonance. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a modified free-choice paradigm to formally test the effect of aging on choice-induced cognitive conflict. In the young participants, behavioral data confirmed the existence of cognitive conflict and preference change for the alternatives that they rejected in the difficult-choice trials. The imaging data revealed that the right dACC displayed an interaction effect associated with cognitive conflict. In contrast, we did not observe such effects in the elderly participants. These suggest a possibility that elderly people likely feel less cognitive dissonance.

  19. Autistic traits modulate the activity of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in response to female faces. International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yui Murakami, Shinya Sakai, Kenta Takeda, Daisuke Sawamura, Kazuki Yoshida, Takamichi Hirose, Chisa Ikeda, Hiroki Mani, Toru Yamamoto, Ayahito Ito

    Neuroscience research　133　28-37　2018/08

    DOI： 10.1016/j.neures.2017.11.003 　

    ISSN： 0168-0102

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    Previous findings have revealed abnormal visual attention or processing of faces among individuals with autism spectrum condition (ASC). However, little attention has been paid to the relationship between autistic traits and neural mechanisms associated with representing facial values. Using fMRI, we investigated the patterns of brain activity in the vmPFC and VS in response to faces of elderly males, elderly females, young males, and young females. During fMRI, subjects with a relatively high autism quotient (high group) and those with a relatively low autism quotient (low group) were presented with a face and asked to rate its pleasantness. After fMRI, the subjects were presented with pairs of faces and asked to select the face that they preferred. Our results indicate a dissociable modulatory effect of autistic traits on the vmPFC and VS: The vmPFC activity in the low group was more sensitive to age differences in female faces compared to that in the high group, whereas VS activity did not show differences between groups. These results suggest that, in the BVS, autistic traits selectively modulate the vmPFC activity associated with facial value representation.

  20. Activity changes in the left superior temporal sulcus reflect the effects of childcare training on young female students’ perceptions of infants’ negative facial expressions Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Katsuko Niwano, Motoko Tanabe, Yosuke Sato, Toshikatsu Fujii

    Neuroscience Research　131　36-44　2018/06/01

    Publisher: Elsevier Ireland Ltd

    DOI： 10.1016/j.neures.2017.09.003 　

    ISSN： 1872-8111 0168-0102

    eISSN： 1872-8111

  21. Reduced orbitofrontal cortical volume is associated with interdependent self-construal Peer-reviewed

    Shinobu Kitayama, Kuniaki Yanagisawa, Ayahito Ito, Ryuhei Ueda, Yukiko Uchida, Nobuhito Abe

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA　114　(30)　7969-7974　2017/07

    DOI： 10.1073/pnas.1704831114 　

    ISSN： 0027-8424

  22. Gender differences in ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity associated with valuation of faces. International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Toshikatsu Fujii, Nobuhito Abe, Iori Kawasaki, Akiko Hayashi, Aya Ueno, Kazuki Yoshida, Shinya Sakai, Shunji Mugikura, Shoki Takahashi, Etsuro Mori

    Neuroscience　328　194-200　2016/07/22

    DOI： 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.04.047 　

    ISSN： 0306-4522

    eISSN： 1873-7544

  23. Differential activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex between male and female givers of social reputation Peer-reviewed

    Iori Kawasaki, Ayahito Ito, Toshikatsu Fujii, Aya Ueno, Kazuki Yoshida, Shinya Sakai, Shunji Mugikura, Shoki Takahashi, Etsuro Mori

    NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH　103　27-33　2016/02

    DOI： 10.1016/j.neures.2015.07.010 　

    ISSN： 0168-0102

    eISSN： 1872-8111

  24. Medial temporal lobe activity associated with the successful retrieval of destination memory Peer-reviewed

    Shunji Mugikura, Nobuhito Abe, Ayahito Ito, Iori Kawasaki, Aya Ueno, Shoki Takahashi, Toshikatsu Fujii

    EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH　234　(1)　95-104　2016/01

    DOI： 10.1007/s00221-015-4415-5 　

    ISSN： 0014-4819

    eISSN： 1432-1106

  25. Distinct neural correlates of the preference-related valuation of supraliminally and subliminally presented faces Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Nobuhito Abe, Yousuke Kawachi, Iori Kawasaki, Aya Ueno, Kazuki Yoshida, Shinya Sakai, Yoshihiko Matsue, Toshikatsu Fujii

    HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING　36　(8)　2865-2877　2015/08

    DOI： 10.1002/hbm.22813 　

    ISSN： 1065-9471

    eISSN： 1097-0193

  26. The neural basis of dishonest decisions that serve to harm or help the target Peer-reviewed

    Nobuhito Abe, Toshikatsu Fujii, Ayahito Ito, Aya Ueno, Yuta Koseki, Ryusaku Hashimoto, Akiko Hayashi, Shunji Mugikura, Shoki Takahashi, Etsuro Mori

    BRAIN AND COGNITION　90　41-49　2014/10

    DOI： 10.1016/j.bandc.2014.06.005 　

    ISSN： 0278-2626

    eISSN： 1090-2147

  27. Neural activity associated with enhanced facial attractiveness by cosmetics use Peer-reviewed

    Aya Ueno, Ayahito Ito, Iori Kawasaki, Yousuke Kawachi, Kazuki Yoshida, Yui Murakami, Shinya Sakai, Toshio Iijima, Yoshihiko Matsue, Toshikatsu Fujii

    NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS　566　142-146　2014/04

    DOI： 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.02.047 　

    ISSN： 0304-3940

    eISSN： 1872-7972

  28. Dissociable neural systems for moral judgment of anti- and pro-social lying Peer-reviewed

    Akiko Hayashi, Nobuhito Abe, Toshikatsu Fujii, Ayahito Ito, Aya Ueno, Yuta Koseki, Shunji Mugikura, Shoki Takahashi, Etsuro Mori

    BRAIN RESEARCH　1556　46-56　2014/03

    DOI： 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.02.011 　

    ISSN： 0006-8993

    eISSN： 1872-6240

  29. The contribution of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to the preparation for deception and truth-telling Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Nobuhito Abe, Toshikatsu Fujii, Akiko Hayashi, Aya Ueno, Shunji Mugikura, Shoki Takahashi, Etsuro Mori

    BRAIN RESEARCH　1464　43-52　2012/06

    DOI： 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.05.004 　

    ISSN： 0006-8993

  30. Neural basis of pleasant and unpleasant emotions induced by social reputation Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Toshikatsu Fujii, Aya Ueno, Yuta Koseki, Manabu Tashiro, Etsuro Mori

    NEUROREPORT　22　(14)　679-683　2011/10

    DOI： 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834a20b8 　

    ISSN： 0959-4965

  31. 意味記憶障害を伴った知覚型視覚性失認例に対するリハビリテーションの効果 Peer-reviewed

    稲垣侑士, 境信哉, 伊藤文人, 大槻美佳, 浅野友佳子, 平山和美

    高次脳機能研究　31　(1)　8-18-18　2011/03

    Publisher: Japan Society for Higher Brain Dysfunction

    DOI： 10.2496/hbfr.31.8 　

    ISSN： 1348-4818

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    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We performed rehabilitation for a female patient with apperceptive visual agnosia and impaired semantic memory after cerebral hypoxia. Three types of training were performed in series : 1) visual search and discrimination, 2) colored picture matching, 3) errorless learning of identification after enumerating visual features of objects. After the training, she became able to search and discriminate the stimuli quickly and systematically. This effect was maintained in follow-up. Her performance of colored picture matching improved, generalized to include other colored pictures, and was maintained in follow-up. Her visual identification of the objects used in the training also improved, and part of the improvement was maintained in follow-up. On the other hand, visual identification of new objects which were not used in the training did not improve. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However, she became accustomed to identifying objects after enumerating the visual features of objects in her daily life, and this habit improved her recognition of each object, after sufficient repetition. These results suggest that this training is available when we select objects having important roles in the daily life of the patient.

  32. The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in deception when remembering neutral and emotional events Peer-reviewed

    Ayahito Ito, Nobuhito Abe, Toshikatsu Fujii, Aya Ueno, Yuta Koseki, Ryusaku Hashimoto, Shunji Mugikura, Shoki Takahashi, Etsuro Mori

    NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH　69　(2)　121-128　2011/02

    DOI： 10.1016/j.neures.2010.11.001 　

    ISSN： 0168-0102

    eISSN： 1872-8111

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Misc. 11

  1. コミュニティー・シェッドによる孤独・孤立の一次予防

    内閣府 第3回総合知活用事例（③総合知の活用方法の進化を目指す事例）　2025/06

  2. 作業がつなぐ未来―コミュニティー・シェッドと作業療法士の挑戦 Invited

    髙島理沙, 伊藤文人, 松尾崇史

    作業療法ジャーナル　59　(4)　353-358　2025/04

  3. シチズンサポートプロジェクトによる社会的孤立・孤独の一次予防(JST-RISTEX)

    山本麻里, 内閣官房孤独, 孤立対策推進室

    孤独・孤立対策官民連携プラットフォーム　2024/06

  4. 日本のコミュニティー・シェッド ー日本におけるコミュニティー・シェッドの立ち上げ・運営のための手引書ー

    伊藤文人, 髙島理沙, 東登志夫, 松尾崇史, 森内剛史, 丸田道雄

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/11fLtqyhWihszRe8yk8nmuRXIqwAoRjUo/view　2024/01

  5. Editorial: Recent Advances and Future Directions in Facial Appearance Research International-journal Invited Peer-reviewed

    Yoshiyuki Ueda, Koyo Nakamura, Chihiro Saegusa, Ayahito Ito

    Frontiers in Psychology　14　1154703-1154703　2023

    DOI： 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1154703 　

  6. 研究者として働く 作業療法から脳科学研究の道へ Invited

    伊藤文人

    作業療法ジャーナル　55　(7)　2021/06

  7. 感情を科学する 脳画像から見た感情 Invited

    伊藤文人, 森悦朗

    最新精神医学　19　(4)　277-285　2014/07

  8. 嘘の反応と正直な反応を準備する際の背外側前頭前野の役割 Invited

    伊藤文人

    東北医学雑誌　125　(1)　126-129　2013/06

    ISSN： 0040-8700

  9. 情動的場面と中性的場面想起中の欺瞞行動における背外側前頭前野の役割 Invited

    伊藤文人

    東北医学雑誌　124　(1)　97-98　2012/06

    ISSN： 0040-8700

  10. Neural basis of pleasant and unpleasant emotions induced by social reputation Invited

    Ito A, Fujii T, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Tashiro M, Mori E

    CYRIC Annual Report 2010-2011　100-102　2012

  11. 欺瞞行動における背外側前頭前野の役割について-情動的場面、中性的場面を用いた検討- Invited

    伊藤文人

    宮城県放射線技師会会報　110　43-44　2011/10

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Books and Other Publications 3

  1. Recent Advances and Future Directions in Facial Appearance Research

    Ito, A, Nakamura, K, Ueda, Y, Saegusa, C

    Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-83251-849-6　2023

  2. 脳科学辞典

    伊藤文人, 藤井俊勝

    日本神経科学学会、脳科学辞典編集委員会　2016

  3. 脳科学辞典

    伊藤文人, 藤井俊勝

    日本神経科学学会、脳科学辞典編集委員会　2012

Presentations 89

  1. Neural Correlates of Social Identity in Older Men: An fMRI Study

    Mao Morinaga, Risa Takashima, Kazuki Yoshida, Ryuta Onishi, Rika Hirayama, Shan Yun, Ayahito Ito

    International Conference for Social Identity and Health 7

  2. Community Sheds as Infrastructure for Social Prescribing Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    The 17th Annual Conference of Japan Primary Care Association　2026/05/31

  3. Community Sheds as a Pathway for Social Prescribing in Japan: A Social Identity Approach Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    International Social Prescribing Conference (ISPC2026)　2026/05/28

  4. 社会的アイデンティティの特徴に関する社会神経科学研究: fMRI研究

    森永雅央, 髙島理沙, 吉田一生, 大西竜太, 平山理花, 杉雲, 伊藤文人

    第28回日本ヒト脳マッピング学会　2026/03/21

  5. 社会的孤立と孤独の脳構造と文化差：UKバイオバンクと東北メディカルメガバンクデータを利用した検討

    吉田一生, 青木隆太, 五十嵐祐, 麦倉俊司, 伊藤文人

    第28回日本ヒト脳マッピング学会　2026/03/20

  6. 日本のコミュニティー・シェッド ー新たな居場所の社会実装と効果検証ー Invited

    日本コミュニティー・シェッド協会(伊藤文人)

    社会的処方EXPO2026　2026/03/15

  7. Co-producing the Men’s Shed concept in Japan: A participatory action research study

    Risa Takashima, Rika Hirayama, Mari Sakaue, Ayahito Ito, Takashi Matsuo, Hiroki Okada, Clifford Stevenson, Niamh McNamara, Kazuko Saeki

    19th WFOT Congress　2026/02

  8. Understanding and Enhancing Human Communication: From Social Neuroscience to Community Practice Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    AIST　2025/12/03

  9. コミュニティー・シェッドが紡ぐ高齢者の社会的つながり Invited

    伊藤文人

    第20回日本応用老年学会大会　2025/11/09

  10. 中⾼年男性の社会的つながりに対するメンズ・シェッドの効果：⾮ランダム化⽐較試験

    平山理花, 髙島理沙, 大西竜太, 伊藤文人, 雲杉, 坂上真理, 佐伯和子

    第84回⽇本公衆衛⽣学会総会　2025/10/29

  11. 地域コミュニティーを基盤とした 国際コミュニティー・データベースの構築 Invited

    伊藤文人

    研究データエコシステム構築事業シンポジウム2025　2025/10/09

  12. 解離性同一症における交代人格の脳科学的実証

    梶村昇吾, 植野仙経, 平井愛子, 山田順子, 福井晴那, 伊藤文人, 阿部修士, 中井隆介, 野間俊一, 岡野憲一郎, 村井俊哉

    日本心理学会第89回大会　2025/08/06

  13. Understanding and Enhancing Human Communication through Social Neuroscience Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University　2025/07/02

  14. コミュニティー・シェッドによる壮年・高齢期の孤独・孤立予防 Invited

    伊藤文人

    自民党政調、孤独・孤立対策特命委員会有識者ヒアリング　2025/05/07

  15. 地域コミュニティーを基盤とした 国際コミュニティー・データベースの構築 Invited

    岩成玲子, 伊藤文人

    研究データエコシステム構築事業シンポジウム2024　2024/10/08

  16. 安全性の知覚と持続可能性意識・未来思考の関連

    日道 俊之, 伊藤 文人, 梶村 昇吾, 荻島 大凱, 伊﨑 翼

    日本心理学会第88回大会　2024/09/06

  17. 孤独‧孤⽴の予防に基礎研究は貢献できるのか？ 心理学・神経科学の可能性

    伊藤文人

    日本心理学会第88回大会 公募シンポジウム「孤独・孤立の予防に基礎研究は貢献できるのか？」　2024/09/07

  18. 日本人におけるオンライン社会的アイデンティティーマッピングの妥当性検証

    伊藤文人, 日道俊之, 今田大貴, 髙島理沙, ハスラムアレックス, マクミランブレイク, 五十嵐祐

    第48回 日本神経心理学会学術集会　2024/09/06

  19. Validity of online social identity mapping (oSIM) in Japan

    Ayahito Ito, Toshiyuki Himichi, Hirotaka Imada, Risa Takashima, Alex Haslam, Blake McMillan, Tasuku Igarashi

    The 6th International Conference on Social Identity and Health　2024/06/20

  20. Community Sheds Initiative in Japan Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    1st International Symposium on Social Identity and Loneliness: Community-based approaches to loneliness reduction　2024/06/14

  21. 多機関共同研究における研究データ管理と機関管理の必要性 Invited

    伊藤文人

    学術情報基盤オープンフォーラム2024　2024/06/12

  22. 高齢者向けの居場所の構築と効果検証 Invited

    伊藤文人

    日本心理学会 公開シンポジウム 「誰一人取り残さない」社会の実現のために： 心理学者が考える「持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）」 第4回「孤独について考える(2)」　2024/03/20

  23. Neural correlates of formation of impression and reflected impression Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    Pusan National University Social Neuroscience Lab　2023/11/24

  24. An fMRI Study Utilizing Speed Dating Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    2023 Korean Magnetics Society Winter Conference　2023/11/23

  25. Citizen Support Project for Preventing Social Isolation and Loneliness Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    EHESS-JST Joint Workshop　2023/10/18

  26. Neural predictors of the person impression

    Ayahito Ito, Ryuta Aoki, Akihiro Watanabe, Yukina Tokikuni, Kazuki Yoshida, Yui Murakami, Shunichi Ogawa, Daisuke Sawamura, Hiroyoshi Ogishima, Ryuichi Tamai, Shogo Kajimura, Mie Kito, Masanori Yamanaka, Keise Izuma

    The 46th Annual Meeting of The Japan Neuroscience Society　2023/08/03

  27. 対人コミュニケーションの脳科学 Invited

    伊藤文人

    教育学研究科×加齢医学研究所ジョイント・シンポジウム 人文科学×脳科学－未来の教育に脳科学を活かすには－　2023/07/12

  28. Therapy quality and mental health among Japanese occupational therapists during the COVID-19 pandemic Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    2023 Korea-Japan Joint Symposium on Occupational Therapy　2023/05/13

  29. Speed datingを活用した脳機能画像研究 Invited

    伊藤文人

    2022年度生理研研究会 第12回社会神経科学研究会「社会神経科学研究の今後の展開に向けて」　2022/10/28

  30. 作業療法士における治療の質，心理状態，ワークライフへの領域特異的なCOVID-19の影響

    澤村大輔, 伊藤文人, 石岡俊之

    第81回日本公衆衛生学会総会　2022/10/09

  31. Therapy quality and mental health among Japanese occupational therapists during the COVID-19 pandemic Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    Northeast Asia Occupational Therapy Forum 2022　2022/05/14

  32. 自己に対する他者からの評判の予測に関する脳メカニズムの解明 Invited

    伊藤文人

    大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科社会心理学セミナー　2021/12/15

  33. Young-age bias of face preference in the human brain

    伊藤文人, 吉田一生, 川崎伊織, 境信哉

    2021/09

  34. 顔選好における年齢バイアス

    伊藤文人, 吉田一生, 川崎伊織, 境信哉

    第27回脳機能とリハビリテーション研究会学術集会　2021/09

  35. The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in automatic formation of impression and reflected impression

    Ayahito Ito, Kazuki Yoshida, Kenta Takeda, Daisuke Sawamura, Yui Murakami, Ai Hasegawa, Shinya Sakai, Keise Izuma

    32nd International Congress of Psychology　2021/07

  36. Young-age bias in valuation of faces

    Ayahito Ito, Kazuki Yoshida, Ryuta Aoki, Toshikatsu Fujii, Iori Kawasaki, Akiko Hayashi, Aya Ueno, Etsuro Mori, Shinya Sakai, Shunji Mugikura, Shoki Takahashi, Nobuhito Abe

    European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2021　2021/06

  37. 顔の選好判断におけるown-age biasの神経基盤 -機能的MRIとdrift-diffusion modelによる検討-

    吉田一生, 伊藤文人

    第23回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会　2021/03/05

  38. 選択に伴う認知的葛藤の加齢変化 ～機能的MRIによる検討～

    伊藤文人, 河地庸介, 川崎伊織, 藤井俊勝

    第54回日本作業療法学会　2020/09

  39. 腹内側前頭前野における「他者からどう思われそうか」の表象過程

    伊藤文人, 吉田一生, 武田賢太, 澤村大輔, 村上優衣, 長谷川愛, 境信哉, 出馬圭世

    第22回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会　2020/08

  40. Formation of reflected impression in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex: Implications for Mental illness and social inequality

    Ayahito Ito

    The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society Symposia "Can Social Neuroscience Address 'Real' Social Issues?"　2020/07

  41. Can brain activity predict outcomes of real-world social interaction? Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    Social Neuroscience Addressing Real Social Issues (Online Symposium)　2020/06/24

  42. Testing the reinforcement learning hypothesis of social conformity

    Levorsen M, Ito A, Suzuki S, Izuma K

    CNS 2020 Virtual Meeting　2020/05/05

  43. Impression formation in human social interaction Invited

    伊藤文人

    長崎大学大学院神経障害リハビリテーション学研究室　2020/01

  44. The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in automatic formation of impression and reflected impression

    Ito A, Yoshida K, Takeda K, Sawamura D, Murakami Y, Hasegawa A, Sakai S, Izuma K

    2019/11

  45. 顔に対する選好と選好予想の認知・神経メカニズム Invited

    伊藤文人

    高知工科大学フューチャーデザイン研究所公開ワークショップ　2018/12

  46. 顔に対する選好と選好予想の認知・神経基盤 Invited

    伊藤文人

    東北大学加齢医学研究所・人間脳科学セミナー　2018/12

  47. 顔に対する選好の神経基盤

    Ayahito Ito

    日本心理学会第82回大会シンポジウム　2018/09

  48. コミュニケーション・モチベーションと心身機能の回復アプローチ

    Ayahito Ito

    日本心理学会第82回大会シンポジウム　2018/09

  49. より効果的な作業療法実践を探る：社会脳科学によるコミュニケーションのコツ Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    作業療法神経科学研究会第4回学術集会　2018/06

  50. The ventromedial prefrontal responses toward faces automatically represent belief about “being-liked” International-presentation

    Ito A, Yoshida K, Takeda K, Sawamura D, Murakami Y, Hasegawa A, Sakai S, Izuma K

    8th International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making　2018/05

  51. 自閉症傾向が顔の選好判断および脳活動に与える影響

    村上優衣, 境信哉, 武田賢太, 澤村大輔, 吉田一生, 廣瀬喬道, 池田千紗, 萬井太規, 山本徹, 伊藤文人

    日本健康行動学会 第16回学術大会　2017/09

  52. An fMRI study of the relationship between neuroticism and neural responses to infant emotional faces

    Niwano K, Ito A, Tanabe M, Sato Y, Fujii T

    15th European Congress of Psychology　2017/07

  53. Individual differences in autistic traits affect vmPFC activity associated with preference-related valuation.

    Murakami Y, Sakai S, Takeda K, Sawamura D, Yoshida K, Hirose T, Ikeda C, Mani H, Yamamoto T, Ito A

    FHS International Conference　2017/07

  54. 他者の顔に対する価値判断に関わる認知・神経メカニズム Invited

    Ayahito Ito

    高知工科大学平成29年度第1回BrainCom主催（共催）講演会　2017/06

  55. The effect of wearing a medical mask and sunglasses on perceiver’s impression

    Fujii T, Ito A, Jenkins R, Sanders J, Yoshida K, Murakami Y, Sakai S

    31th International Congress of Psychology　2016/07

  56. The effect of childcare training on perception of infant’s emotional facial expression.

    Ito A, Niwano K, Tanabe M, Sato Y, Fujii T

    31th International Congress of Psychology　2016/07

  57. Age-related reduction of cognitive dissonance and choice-induced preference change

    Ito A, Kawachi Y, Kawasaki I, Fujii T

    31th International Congress of Psychology　2016/07

  58. Correlations between the brain responses of nulliparous females when viewing infants’ facial expressions and their personality

    Tanabe M, Niwano K, Ito A, Sato Y, Fujii T

    31th International Congress of Psychology　2016/07

  59. Regional brain responses in female young adults to emotional infant faces correlated with their personality traits.

    Niwano K, Ito A, Tanabe M, Sato Y, Fujii T

    31th International Congress of Psychology　2016/07

  60. 選択に伴う選好の変化は加齢によって減少する

    伊藤文人, 河地庸介, 川崎伊織, 藤井俊勝

    第18回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会　2016/03

  61. 消極的な嘘の神経基盤

    阿部修士, 柳澤邦昭, 伊藤文人

    第18回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会　2016/03

  62. Distinct neural correlates of preference-related valuation of supraliminally and subliminally presented faces

    Ito A, Abe N, Kawachi Y, Kawasaki I, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Matsue Y, Fujii T

    The 38th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society　2015/07

  63. Distinct neural correlates of preference of supraliminally and subliminally presented faces International-presentation

    Ito A, Abe N, Kawachi Y, Kawasaki I, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Matsue Y, Fujii T

    21th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping　2015/06

  64. 性差と加齢がもたらす他者の顔に対する価値表象に関わる神経基盤への影響

    伊藤文人, 藤井俊勝, 阿部修士, 川崎伊織, 林亜希子, 上野彩, 吉田一生, 境信哉, 麦倉俊司, 高橋昭喜, 森悦朗

    第16回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会　2014/03

  65. 顔に対する無意識的な価値表象に関わる神経基盤

    伊藤文人, 阿部修士, 河地庸介, 川崎伊織, 上野彩, 吉田一生, 境信哉, 松江克彦, 藤井俊勝

    第3回社会神経科学研究会　2013/11

  66. Dissociable roles of the nucleus accumbens and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in preference formation for consciously and subconsciously perceived targets International-presentation

    Ito A, Abe N, Kawachi Y, Kawasaki I, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Matue Y, Fujii T

    Beauty and Value　2013/10

  67. 顔の魅力度に対する化粧品の使用と視線の影響：fMRIによる脳機能画像研究

    村上優衣, 伊藤文人, 川崎伊織, 上野彩, 河地庸介, 麦倉俊司, 松江克彦, 境信哉, 高橋昭喜, 藤井俊勝

    第37回日本神経心理学会総会　2013/09

  68. Neural correlates of pleasant and unpleasant emotions induced by social reputation from the same and opposite genders International-presentation

    Kawasaki I, Fujii T, Ito A, Ueno A, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E

    International Neuropsychological Society 2013 mid-year meeting　2013/07

  69. Effects of cosmetics use and gaze direction on facial attractiveness: an fMRI study International-presentation

    Murakami Y, Ito A, Kawasaki I, Ueno A, Kawachi Y, Mugikura S, Matsue Y, Sakai S, Takahashi S, Fujii T

    International Neuropsychological Society 2013 mid-year meeting　2013/07

  70. Neural correlates of facial recognition with and without cosmetics: an fMRI study International-presentation

    Ueno A, Ito A, Kawasaki I, Kawachi Y, Yoshida K, Murakami Y, Sakai S, Iijima T, Matsue Y, Fujii T

    International Neuropsychological Society 2013 mid-year meeting　2013/07

  71. Gender differences in the patterns of vmPFC activity associated with preference judgments for faces International-presentation

    Ito A, Fujii T, Abe N, Kawasaki I, Hayashi A, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E

    International Neuropsychological Society 2013 mid-year meeting　2013/07

  72. Gender differences in the patterns of vmPFC activity associated with preference judgments for faces

    Ito A, Fujii T, Abe N, Kawasaki I, Hayashi A, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E

    第36回日本神経科学大会　2013/06

  73. 他者の顔に対する価値表象に関わる神経基盤の性差

    伊藤文人, 藤井俊勝, 阿部修士, 川崎伊織, 林亜希子, 上野彩, 吉田一生, 境信哉, 麦倉俊司, 高橋昭喜, 森悦朗

    第2回生理学研究所社会神経科学研究会　2013/01

  74. 同性または異性からの褒め・貶しにより惹起される快・不快感情に関わる神経基盤の性差

    川崎伊織, 藤井俊勝, 伊藤文人, 上野彩, 麦倉俊司, 高橋昭喜, 森悦朗

    第14回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会　2012/07

  75. 正直な反応と嘘の反応の準備における背外側前頭前野の役割

    伊藤文人, 阿部修士, 藤井俊勝, 林亜希子, 上野彩, 麦倉俊司, 高橋昭喜, 森悦朗

    第14回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会　2012/07

  76. 他者からの社会的評価により惹起される快・不快感情に関わる神経基盤の検討：PETによる脳機能画像研究

    伊藤文人, 藤井俊勝, 上野彩, 小関優太, 田代学, 森悦朗

    第1回生理学研究所社会神経科学研究会　2011/10

  77. 情動的場面や中性的場面の想起中の欺瞞行動における背外側前頭前野の役割

    伊藤文人, 阿部修士, 藤井俊勝, 小関優太, 橋本竜作, 麦倉俊司, 高橋昭喜, 森悦朗

    第13回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会　2011/09

  78. 後の好き嫌いを予測できる神経活動

    上野彩, 伊藤文人, 小関優太, 林亜希子, 森悦朗, 松江克彦, 藤井俊勝

    第34回日本神経科学大会　2011/09

  79. Neural correlates of moral judgment about anti- and pro-social lying International-presentation

    Hayashi A, Abe N, Fujii T, Ito A, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E

    39th International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting　2011/02

  80. Dissociating areas for novelty detection and for episodic encoding within the human medial temporal lobe International-presentation

    Koseki Y, Ito A, Abe N, Ueno A, Hayashi A, Mori E, Sung Y, Matsue Y, Fujii T

    39th International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting　2011/02

  81. Distinct brain activations predicting the choice of likes and dislikes International-presentation

    Ueno A, Ito A, Koseki Y, Hayashi A, Mori E, Matsue Y, Fujii T

    39th International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting　2011/02

  82. The role of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in deception for emotional and neutral events International-presentation

    Ito A, Abe N, Fujii T, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Hashimoto R, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E

    39th International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting　2011/02

  83. 知覚型視覚性失認一例に対する誤りなき学習課題の効果について

    稲垣侑士, 伊藤文人, 平山和美, 境信哉, 大槻美佳

    第33回日本高次脳機能障害学会　2009/10

  84. 知覚型視覚性失認の一例における視機能の検討

    伊藤文人, 平山和美, 境信哉, 稲垣侑士, 大槻美佳, 森悦朗

    第33回日本高次脳機能障害学会　2009/10

  85. The brain empathic responses modulated by the affective link between self and others: A PET study International-presentation

    Koseki Y, Abe N, Ueno A, Ito A, Mori E, Tashiro M, Fujii T

    15th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping　2009/06

  86. Amygdala activity associated with unpleasant emotion induced by social appraisal: A PET study International-presentation

    Ito A, Abe N, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Mori E, Tashiro M, Fujii T

    15th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping　2009/06

  87. 知覚型視覚失認の一例における視機能

    伊藤文人, 稲垣侑士, 境信哉, 大槻美佳, 平山和美

    第39回北海道作業療法学会　2008/10

  88. 高齢者の新たな居場所の立ち上げと心理学・脳科学による効果検証 Invited

    伊藤文人

    東北大学加齢医学研究所シンポジウム「健康寿命の延伸に向けた学際認知神経科学」　2023/12/04

  89. 脳機能イメージングを用いたSpeed dating研究

    伊藤文人

    日本心理学会第84回大会 公募シンポジウム「Speed Datingを用いた「出会い」研究の展開」　2020/09

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Industrial Property Rights 1

  1. 情報処理装置、及びコンピュータプログラム

    梶村昇吾, 伊藤文人

    特許7587232

    Property Type: Patent

    Holder: 梶村昇吾、伊藤文人

Research Projects 9

  1. コミュニティーを基盤とした孤独・孤立予防の国際研究拠点

    伊藤 文人

    Offer Organization: 日本学術振興会

    System: 科学研究費助成事業

    Category: 国際共同研究加速基金(海外連携研究)

    Institution: 東北大学

    2024/09/09 - 2029/03/31

  2. Citizen support project for preventing social isolation and loneliness

    Offer Organization: JST-RISTEX

    Category: SOLVE for SDGs: Social Isolation & Loneliness

    2022/10 - 2027/03

  3. Research on constructing a database enabling international comparisons of elderly co mmunities

    Ayahito Ito

    Offer Organization: JSPS

    System: Bilateral Collaborations

    Institution: Tohoku University

    2024/04 - 2026/03

  4. Neural correlates of preference change

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Institution: Kochi University of Technology

    2022/04 - 2026/03

  5. Neural predictor of impression of others Competitive

    Ito Ayahito

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

    Institution: Kochi University of Technology

    2019/04 - 2021/03

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    In the present study, we investigated whether brain activity during the presentation of other people's faces and impression ratings of those faces predicted the actual impressions that people would have when they talked to others in face-to-face situation, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The results showed that pre-recorded impression ratings of the other person's face significantly predicted impressions of the actual conversation with that person, while the brain activity for each face obtained during the fMRI task did not significantly predict impressions of others during the conversation task.

  6. Neural mechanisms associated with dynamic representation of one's reputation Competitive

    Ayahito Ito

    Offer Organization: JSPS

    System: JSPS Overseas Research Fellowships

    2017/08 - 2019/07

  7. Neural correlates of preference formation for faces Competitive

    Ito Ayahito

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

    2016/04 - 2018/03

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    In the present study, we have investigated neural mechanisms associated with preference formation for faces that are repeatedly presented in supraliminal or subliminal fashion, by combining functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a technique called mere exposure paradigm. We found that the orbitofrontal cortex, ventral striatum, and early visual cortices are associated with supraliminal mere exposure effect, whereas the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex are associated with subliminal mere exposure effect.

  8. 非侵襲的脳機能画像法による他者の顔の価値表象に関わる神経機構の解明 Competitive

    伊藤文人

    Offer Organization: 日本学術振興会

    System: 科学研究費補助金

    Category: 特別研究員奨励費

    2013/04 - 2015/03

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    高齢者における顔の価値表象に関わる神経機構の検討について、本年度は機能的磁気共鳴画像法（functional magnetic resonance imaging: fMRI）により得られた脳活動データの解析を終了し、論文執筆の最終段階に入ることができた。脳活動データの解析から、高齢者においても腹内側前頭前野が他者の顔の価値表象に重要な役割を果たしていることが明らかとなったが、加齢の効果には性差が認められた。具体的には、高齢女性よりも高齢男性で加齢の効果が顕著であることが明らかとなった。 また、本年度は他者の顔に対する価値表象機構の検討に関連し、腹内側前頭前野と背内側前頭前野の機能的役割が意識的に顔を見ることができる場合と、意識的には顔を見ることができない場合で異なることを報告した（Ito et al., Human Brain Mapping, DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22813）。具体的には、腹内側前頭前野は意識的に顔を見ることができる場合のみに、選好を反映する価値表象を行っている一方で、背内側前頭前野は意識的に顔を見ることができない場合のみに、選好を反映する価値表象を行っていることが明らかとなった。 これらの知見は、顔の価値表象に関わる神経機構が、①生物学的な要因によって変容すること、②呈示された顔を意識できるかどうかによって、腹内側前頭前野と背内側前頭前野が独立に価値を表象し、選好を反映している可能性を示唆するものである。ここまでの検討に予想以上の時間を要したため、自閉症者を対象とした実験は実施できなかったが、今回明らかになった知見は、今後の研究の発展にに資するものであったと考えられる。

  9. 脳機能画像法と神経心理学的手法による快・不快感情と選好判断に関わる神経基盤の研究 Competitive

    伊藤文人

    Offer Organization: 日本学術振興会

    System: 科学研究費補助金 特別研究員奨励費（DC1）

    2010/04 - 2012/03

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Teaching Experience 10

  1. Asia Education Leader (AEL) Course (K-P) Cognitive Science of Human Communication　Tohoku University

  2. 教職実践演習　Tohoku University

  3. Introduction to Educational Research　Tohoku University

  4. 教育学への招待　Tohoku University

  5. Information processing literacy　Tohoku University

  6. オープンエデュケーション論合同演習　Tohoku University

  7. 教育情報デザイン論講義Ⅰ　Tohoku University

  8. 教育情報学基礎論研究演習Ⅰ　Tohoku University

  9. 教育情報学基礎論特論Ⅰ　Tohoku University

  10. 教育情報学実践論概論　Tohoku University

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Social Activities 12

  1. Japan Community Sheds Association

    2022/10 - Present

  2. 一般公開シンポジウム「シチズンサイエンスで挑む超高齢社会の孤立・孤独予防」

    2025/12/13 - 2025/12/13

  3. 「シチズンサポートプロジェクトによる社会的孤立・孤独の一次予防」第１回国際セミナー

    2024/06/11 - 2024/06/11

  4. 一般公開シンポジウム「シチズンサポートプロジェクトによる 孤独・孤立の一次予防」

    2024/05/24 - 2024/05/24

  5. 研究を楽しみ 105%で生きる

    作業療法・福岡 Vol.22(2023年度)

    2024/03 -

  6. 超高齢社会における加齢観の刷新による社会的孤立・孤独の一次予防

    JST-RISTEXシチズンサポートプロジェクト×学術変革領域研究（A）「生涯学」ジョイント・シンポジウム

    2023/12/23 -

  7. 人文科学×脳科学－未来の教育に脳科学を活かすには－

    2023/07/12 -

  8. コミュニケーションに関わる脳とこころのメカニズム

    2022/09/18 -

  9. 基礎から学べる研究の進め方

    第15回研修会

    2019/12/07 -

  10. 脳画像を診る

    平成29年度研修会

    2017/06/30 -

  11. 臨床に役立つ脳解剖の基礎

    第4回研修会

    2016/10/01 -

  12. 脳イメージングの基礎と応用 -基礎研究と臨床研究の接点-

    札幌高次脳機能障害研究会

    2014/09/04 -

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Media Coverage 4

  1. Take a leaf from Forrest shed

    COLAC HERALD　COLAC HERALD

    2025/11/05

    Type: Newspaper, magazine

  2. Men's Shed inspires visitors to bring community project back to Japan

    ITV Wales　ITV News

    2025/07/28

    Type: TV or radio program

  3. 他者からの印象予想、自分の「好き」で判断？ 脳活動実験で解明

    毎日新聞

    2020/10/23

    Type: Newspaper, magazine

  4. 相手からの「好意」を短時間に予想する脳メカニズム解明

    産経新聞

    2020/10/05

    Type: Newspaper, magazine