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Restructuring human sciences based on decoding of emotional information
In this research area, Chikazoe (Araya Inc., National Institute for Physiological Sciences), an expert in fMRI research using machine learning, aims to reconstruct academic disciplines in the humanities through an approach centered upon affect. He is assisted by Mochihashi (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics), who specializes in natural language processing; Watanabe (The University of Tokyo), an expert in microeconomics; and Ishizu (Kansai University), a specialist in neuro aesthetics.
Through research in psychology, linguistics, economics, and aesthetics, combined with fMRI technology, the area members aim to visualize affective information that was previously considered invisible and identify the impacts of affect on cognitive processes, linguistic representations, economic activities, and art. Starting from research activities in this area, the members' ultimate objective is to create a new academic discipline, “affective informatics”, which both combines and exceeds the fields of psychology, linguistics, economics, and aesthetics.
Member Profiles
Junichi Chikazoe
Investigating the integrated calculation process of ambivalent value information using fMRI (neuroscience)
Araya Inc. Neurotechnology R&D Unit Research Team Leader/
National Institute for Physiological Sciences Section of Brain Function Information Associate Professor
Daichi Mochihashi
The neuroscience of literary arts that evoke affect (linguistics)
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Department of Statistical Inference and Mathematics Associate Professor
Yasutora Watanabe
Estimating affective influences through econometric structural models (economics)
The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics (Faculty of Economics) Professor
Tomohiro Ishizu
Cognitive neuroscience research on aesthetic experiences that step beyond pleasure/displeasure and their psychological effects (aesthetics)
Kansai University Faculty of Letters Associate Professor
Research Findings
Restructuring human sciences based on decoding of emotional information
To be updated once progress is made.
Activity Reports
Restructuring human sciences based on decoding of emotional information
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