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Fukushima Hirokata
 
Organization
Faculty of Sociology Professor
Title
Professor
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Degree

  • 博士(学術) ( 東京大学 )

Research Interests

  • Psychophysiology

  • Social neuroscience

  • Cognitive neuroscience

  • Affective neuroscience

  • empathy

  • self-recognition

  • ERP

  • self awareness

  • respiration

  • EEG

  • interoception

  • emotion

  • alexithymia

  • ECG

  • EEG/ERP

  • fMRI.

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Experimental psychology

  • Life Science / Neuroscience-general

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Cognitive science

Education

  • The University of Tokyo

    - 2006

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    Country: Japan

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  • Beyond emotional distress: Exploring the positive link between highly sensitive person trait and aesthetic sensitivity

    Jingni Liu, Hirokata Fukushima

    Personality and Individual Differences   2025.10

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  • Development of the Engagement with Beauty Scale‐Revised, Japanese Version (EBS‐R‐J), and Confirmation of its Validity and Reliability1 Reviewed

    Jingni Liu, Rhett Diessner, Hirokata Fukushima

    Japanese Psychological Research   2024.2

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  • Effects of alexithymia and its subfactors on emotional response to music Reviewed

    Jingni Liu, Hirokata Fukushima

    Psychology of Music   51 ( 2 )   412 - 428   2022.6

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    Alexithymia is a trait characterized by decreased emotional response to visual or verbal stimuli. However, Lyvers et al. suggest that alexithymia is positively correlated with the magnitude of emotional response to music (ERM). This study reexamines their findings in two sets of Asian population (China [ n = 344] and Japan [ n = 341]) using online surveys to investigate the subfactors of alexithymia. The Toronto Alexithymia Scale and the Geneva Emotional Music Scale (GEMS) were used to measure alexithymia and ERM in the participants, along with trait anxiety and music experiences in their daily lives. The obtained data showed that in both the Chinese and the Japanese populations, individuals with higher alexithymia tend to have higher GEMS scores (i.e., higher ERM), which is consistent with the finding of the previous study. Furthermore, alexithymia and ERM are correlated because of difficulty in identifying feelings, a subfactor of alexithymia. These results were not influenced by trait anxiety. In addition, alexithymia showed no correlation with either the frequency of listening to music or the degree of music absorption in daily life. We argued that the nonverbal characteristic of music might be key to the association between alexithymia and ERM.

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  • Interoception is associated with the impact of eye contact on spontaneous facial mimicry. Reviewed International journal

    Masahiro Imafuku, Hirokata Fukushima, Yuko Nakamura, Masako Myowa, Shinsuke Koike

    Scientific reports   10 ( 1 )   19866 - 19866   2020.11

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    Interoception (perception of one's own physiological state) has been suggested to underpin social cognition, although the mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear. The current study aimed to elucidate the relationship between interoception and two factors underlying social cognition: self-other boundary and sensitivity to social cues. We measured performance in a heartbeat perception task as an index of interoceptive accuracy (IAc), the frequency of spontaneous facial mimicry (SFM) as an index of self-other boundary, and the degree of the effect of eye contact on SFM (difference in SFM between conditions in which models' eyes were directed to and averted from participants) as an index of social-cue sensitivity, and tested correlations among these measures. The results revealed that IAc and SFM were positively correlated only in the direct gaze condition. The extent of the effect of eye contact on SFM (difference in frequency between direct vs. averted conditions) was positively correlated with IAc. These overall findings were also observed in separate analyses of male and female participant groups, supporting the robustness of the findings. The results suggest that interoception is related to sensitivity to social cues, and may also be related to the self-other boundary with modulation by social context.

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  • Temporal Matching Between Interoception and Exteroception Reviewed

    Hirokata Fukushima, Yukari Tanaka, Masako Myowa

    Journal of Psychophysiology   33 ( 4 )   219 - 231   2019.10

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  • Knowing my affect through my body: Interoceptive approach on affective and clinical psychology Invited

    Hirokata Fukushima

    Japanese Psychological Review   61 ( 3 )   301 - 321   2019.1

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  • Behavioral evidence of delayed prediction signals during agency attribution in patients with schizophrenia Reviewed

    Akihiro Koreki, Takaki Maeda, Hirokata Fukushima, Satoshi Umeda, Keisuke Takahata, Tsukasa Okimura, Michitaka Funayama, Satoru Iwashita, Masaru Mimura, Motoichiro Kato

    PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH   230 ( 1 )   78 - 83   2015.11

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  • Neural correlates of error processing reflect individual differences in interoceptive sensitivity Reviewed

    Takuya Sueyoshi, Fumie Sugimoto, Jun'ichi Katayama, Hirokata Fukushima

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY   94 ( 3 )   278 - 286   2014.12

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  • Mothers' multimodal information processing is modulated by multimodal interactions with their infants Reviewed

    Yukari Tanaka, Hirokata Fukushima, Kazuo Okanoya, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi

    SCIENTIFIC REPORTS   4   6623   2014.10

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  • Complicated association between interoception and emotion: Comments on Terasawa and Umeda's article

    Fukushima Hirokata

    JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW   57 ( 1 )   67 - 76   2014.3

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  • Neural representation of face familiarity in an awake chimpanzee Reviewed

    Hirokata Fukushima, Satoshi Hirata, Goh Matsuda, Ari Ueno, Kohki Fuwa, Keiko Sugama, Kiyo Kusunoki, Kazuo Hiraki, Masaki Tomonaga, Toshikazu Hasegawa

    PEERJ   1   e223   2013.12

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  • Neural substrates for judgment of self-agency in ambiguous situations Reviewed

    Hirokata Fukushima, Yurie Goto, Takaki Maeda, Motoichiro Kato, Satoshi Umeda

    PLoS ONE   8 ( 8 )   e72267   2013.8

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  • How does interoceptive awareness interact with the subjective experience of emotion? An fMRI Study Reviewed

    Yuri Terasawa, Hirokata Fukushima, Satoshi Umeda

    Human Brain Mapping   34 ( 3 )   598 - 612   2013.3

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    DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21458

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  • Brain response to affective pictures in the chimpanzee Reviewed

    Satoshi Hirata, Goh Matsuda, Ari Ueno, Hirokata Fukushima, Koki Fuwa, Keiko Sugama, Kiyo Kusunoki, Masaki Tomonaga, Kazuo Hiraki, Toshikazu Hasegawa

    SCIENTIFIC REPORTS   3   1342   2013.2

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  • Event-related potentials in response to subjects' own names: A comparison between humans and a chimpanzee. Reviewed International journal

    Hirata S, Matsuda G, Ueno A, Fuwa K, Sugama K, Kusunoki K, Fukushima H, Hiraki K, Tomonaga M, Hasegawa T

    Communicative & integrative biology   4 ( 3 )   321 - 323   2011.5

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    The sound of one's own name is one of the most salient auditory environmental stimuli. Several studies of human brain potentials have revealed some characteristic waveforms when we hear our own names. In a recent work, we investigated event-related potentials (ERPs) in a female chimpanzee and demonstrated that the ERP pattern generated when she heard her own name differed from that generated when she heard other sounds. However, her ERPs did not exhibit a prominent positive shift around 300 ms (P3) in response to her own name, as has been repeatedly shown in studies of human ERPs. The present study collected comparative data for adult humans using basically the same procedure as that used in our previous study of the chimpanzee. These results also revealed no prominent P3 to the human subjects' own names. The lack of increased P3 is therefore likely due to our experimental protocol, in which we presented the subject's own name relatively frequently. In contrast, our results revealed prominent negativity to the subject's own name at around 500 ms in the chimpanzee and around 200 ms in human subjects. This may indicate that initial orientation to the sound of one's own name is delayed in the chimpanzee.

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  • Association between interoception and empathy: Evidence from heartbeat-evoked brain potential Reviewed

    Hirokata Fukushima, Yuri Terasawa, Satoshi Umeda

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY   79 ( 2 )   259 - 265   2011.2

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  • Neural Correlates of Face and Object Perception in an Awake Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) Examined by Scalp-Surface Event-Related Potentials Reviewed

    Hirokata Fukushima, Satoshi Hirata, Ari Ueno, Goh Matsuda, Kohki Fuwa, Keiko Sugama, Kiyo Kusunoki, Masahiro Hirai, Kazuo Hiraki, Masaki Tomonaga, Toshikazu Hasegawa

    PLOS ONE   5 ( 10 )   e13366   2010.10

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  • Brain activity in an awake chimpanzee in response to the sound of her own name Reviewed

    Ari Ueno, Satoshi Hirata, Kohki Fuwa, Keiko Sugama, Kiyo Kusunoki, Goh Matsuda, Hirokata Fukushima, Kazuo Hiraki, Masaki Tomonaga, Toshikazu Hasegawa

    BIOLOGY LETTERS   6 ( 3 )   311 - 313   2010.6

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  • Whose loss is it? Human electrophysiological correlates of non-self reward processing Reviewed

    Hirokata Fukushima, Kazuo Hiraki

    SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE   4 ( 3 )   261 - 275   2009

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  • Auditory ERPs to Stimulus Deviance in an Awake Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): Towards Hominid Cognitive Neurosciences

    Ari Ueno, Satoshi Hirata, Kohki Fuwa, Keiko Sugama, Kiyo Kusunoki, Goh Matsuda, Hirokata Fukushima, Kazuo Hiraki, Masaki Tomonaga, Toshikazu Hasegawa

    PLOS ONE   3 ( 1 )   e1442   2008.1

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  • サバン症候群の特異的認知能力の認知神経科学的研究 Reviewed

    伊藤 匡, 福島 宏器, 開 一夫

    日本心理学会大会発表論文集   72 ( 0 )   2AM024 - 2AM024   2008

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  • Salivary alpha-amylase levels and hyperbolic discounting in male humans Reviewed

    Taiki Takahashi, Koki Ikeda, Hirokata Fukushima, Toshikazu Hasegawa

    NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY LETTERS   28 ( 1 )   17 - 20   2007.2

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  • Perceiving an opponent's loss: gender-related differences in the medial-frontal negativity Reviewed

    Hirokata Fukushima, Kazuo Hiraki

    SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE   1 ( 2 )   149 - 157   2006.9

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  • Perceiving an opponent's loss: gender-related differences in the medial-frontal negativity. Reviewed

    Fukushima H, Hiraki K

    Social cognitive and affective neuroscience   1 ( 2 )   149 - 157   2006.9

  • Active processing of biological motion perception: an ERP study Reviewed

    M Hirai, A Senju, H Fukushima, K Hiraki

    COGNITIVE BRAIN RESEARCH   23 ( 2-3 )   387 - 396   2005.5

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  • An event-related potentials study of biological motion perception in human infants. Reviewed

    Hirai M, Senju A, Fukushima H, Hiraki K

    Brain Res Cogn Brain Res.   22 ( 2 )   301 - 304   2005.2

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  • 課題のエラーに着目した自己と他者の行為にたいする神経表象比較(日本基礎心理学会第23回大会,大会発表要旨)

    福島 宏器, 開 一夫

    基礎心理学研究   23 ( 2 )   249 - 249   2005

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  • Neural dynamics in human imitation revealed by ERP surface topography Reviewed

    H Fukushima, M Hirai, A Arita, K Kamewari, K Hiraki

    NEUROREPORT   15 ( 13 )   2129 - 2132   2004.9

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  • Biological Motion知覚はBottom-upな過程か? : ERPによる検討(日本基礎心理学会第22回大会,大会発表要旨)

    平井 真洋, 千住 淳, 福島 宏器, 開 一夫

    基礎心理学研究   22 ( 2 )   239 - 239   2004

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  • 単純反応時間課題による模倣反応の行動・神経科学的検討(日本基礎心理学会第22回大会,大会発表要旨)

    福島 宏器, 平井 真洋, 開 一夫

    基礎心理学研究   22 ( 2 )   227 - 227   2004

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  • An event-related potentials study of biological motion perception in humans Reviewed

    M Hirai, H Fikushima, K Hiraki

    NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS   344 ( 1 )   41 - 44   2003.6

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  • 運動知覚における到達時間予測 : 事象関連電位法を用いた神経機構の検討(発表要旨,日本基礎心理学会第21回大会)

    福島 宏器, 開 一夫

    基礎心理学研究   21 ( 2 )   182 - 183   2003

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Books

  • 暴力的ゲームにおける生理心理学的影響 (堀忠雄・尾崎久記(監),室橋春光・苧阪満里子(編) 生理心理学と精神生理学 第Ⅲ巻)

    栗田聡子, 福島宏器, 堀 忠雄, 尾崎 久記, 室橋 春光, 苧阪 満里子( Role: Joint author第16章,pp. 183-193)

    北大路書房  2018.5  ( ISBN:4762830194

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  • 神経科学と生理心理学:心の生物学的基礎 (藤田哲也(監) 串崎真志(編) 絶対役立つ臨床心理学 第12章)

    福島宏器, 藤田哲也, 串崎真志( Role: Contributor第12章)

    ミネルヴァ書房  2016.9  ( ISBN:4623077950

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  • ミラーとメンタライジング:社会脳の見取り図 (子安増生・大平英樹(編) ミラーニューロンと<心の理論> 第5章)

    福島宏器, 子安 増生, 大平 英樹( Role: Contributor第5章,pp. 153-193)

    新曜社  2011.7  ( ISBN:4788512440

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  • 他人の損失は自分の損失?-共感の神経的基盤をさぐる (開一夫・長谷川寿一(編) ソーシャルブレインズ 第9章)

    福島宏器, 開 一夫, 長谷川 寿一( Role: Contributor第9章,pp. 191-215)

    東京大学出版会  2009.1  ( ISBN:4130133039

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MISC

  • On the application of predictive coding principle to well-being research:A primer and literature review

    Fukushima Hirokata

    Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society   30 ( 2 )   168 - 172   2023.6

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    DOI: 10.11225/cs.2022.091

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  • EVENT-RELATED BRAIN POTENTIALS EVOKED BY EMOTIONAL PICTURES AS A FUNCTION OF VIOLENT GAME EXPOSURE AND MOTIVATIONAL ACTIVATION

    Satoko Kurita, Hirokata Fukushima, Harumitsu Murohashi, Robert F. Potter, Annie Lang

    PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY   50   S76 - S76   2013.9

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  • THE COMMON AND SPECIFIC NEURAL BASES FOR EMOTIONAL AND BODILY AWARENESS

    Terasawa Yuri, Fukushima Hirokata, Umeda Satoshi

    PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY   46   S150 - S150   2009.9

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  • 自己・他者認知の統合的メカニズム 脳・発達・ロボティクスからの挑戦

    宮崎 美智子, 福島 宏器, 石田 裕昭, 尾形 哲也, 村田 哲, 開 一夫, 明和 政子

    日本心理学会大会発表論文集   72 ( 0 )   WS069 - WS069   2008.7

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  • 覚醒とP3

    池田功毅, 福島宏器, 長谷川寿一

    生理心理学と精神生理学   25 ( 2 )   180   2007.8

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  • Neural Mechanisms on Human Social Cognition

    FUKUSHIMA Hirokata, SHIMADA Sotaro, HIRAKI Kazuo

    26   235 - 238   2007.6

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  • Perceiving an opponent's loss: gender-related differences in the medial-frontal negativity (vol 1, pg 149, 2006)

    Hirokata Fukushima, Kazuo Hiraki

    SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE   1 ( 3 )   275 - 276   2006.12

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  • ギャンブル課題におけるEEGの時間周波数解析

    松中玲子, 福島宏器, 開一夫, 開一夫

    臨床神経生理学   34 ( 5 )   2006

  • 他者の行為に対するフィードバック刺激の知覚:事象関連電位法による検討

    福島宏器, 開一夫, 松田剛, 松中玲子

    認知神経科学   8 ( 2 )   2006

  • An electrophysiological study of human self-monitoring and social awareness.

    H Fukushima, K Hiraki

    JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE   205 - 205   2005

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Research Projects

  • 「幸福感」の向上を目指したポジティブ感情の機能の解明と一次予防アプローチ法の確立

    Grant number:19H01766  2019.4 - 2024.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(B)

    大竹 恵子, 片山 順一, 真田 原行, 小林 正法, 津田 彰, 福島 宏器

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    本研究は、ポジティブ感情の機能に着目して、実験や調査による基礎研究から得られる基礎的知見を健康に対する予防行動や主観的幸福感が持続できるための仕組みの理解と心身の健康増進の実現に応用し、一次予防におけるアプローチ法の確立を目指している。2020年度は、新型コロナウイルスに関する影響を受け、当初計画していた進行状況が一部遅れた面があったため、2021年度に一部研究費を繰越し対応したが、これまでの研究知見を展開させ、ポジティブ感情の喚起手法に関する実験やポジティブ感情が持つ認知機能に焦点をあてた研究を実施した。具体的には、対人関係や対人認知に関わる研究として、感謝という感情をとりあげ、親切行動や援助行動に代表される向社会的行動に関する想像を行うという手続きを用いてポジティブ感情が持つ機能について検討したり、ノスタルジア(懐かしさ感情)を喚起した対人認知および社会とのつながり意識に関する実験も行った。さらに、昨年度にメンバー間でも研究議論を行った研究知見に関する論文化も進め、懐かしさ感情の喚起手法に関する業績や感謝と向社会的行動に関する国内外の論文業績も成果として公表することができた。今後はさらに研究を進め、共同研究として多面的なアプローチを展開していきたいと考えている。

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  • Examining the impact of cardiac and respiratory phases on social perception

    Grant number:15K21520  2015.4 - 2018.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

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    This project examined whether and how cardiac and respiratory phase influence emotional perception. Our study suggested that emotional valence (i.e. positive-negative) on subtle facial expression is perceived more clearly when the faces are presented at the timing of cardiac systole (i.e. heart shrinking) compared to the diastole period. It is also suggested that positive valence is more clearly perceived at the middle of inspiration (i.e. breathing in) rather than the expiration phase.
    Another study examined the association between breathing and the brain activity by analyzing how the electroencephalography (EEG) changes with the respiratory cycle. The magnitude of respiratory-related fluctuation in the high-frequency (γ) EEG band was found to be negatively associated with several measures related to the mind-body interaction (e.g. the degree of physiological regulation and respiratory perception).
    These findings open new approaches to further clarify the mind-body relationship.

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  • Psychophysiological research for investigating influences of chronic exposure to violent games and motivational activation on affective information processing.

    Grant number:26380996  2014.4 - 2018.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    KURITA Satoko, MUROHASHI Harumitsu, FUKUSHIMA Hirokata, LANG Annie

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    The possibility of negative psychological and behavioral effects on adolescents by chronic exposure to violent games (VG) is a growing social concern in many countries including Japan. Leading researchers of VG study explain that habitual VG playing can cause decreased emotional/cognitive responses (desensitization) to violent events even in reality. However, the mechanism of desensitization has not been clearly understood. Therefore, this study aimed to enhance our understanding of the "desensitization" effect by measuring multiple physiological data collected from the central and peripheral nervous system and individuals' trait level of motivational activation. The results revealed that there were significant effects of playing VG beyond the trait level of motivational activation; the major effects found in our study were “sensitization” on the attentional process. Potential influences of chronic exposure to VG are discussed.

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  • Body awareness and social cognitive development from the fetal period

    Grant number:24119005  2012.6 - 2017.3

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    Myowa Masako, ITAKURA Shoji, HIRAKI Kazuo, INUI Toshio, UKITA Norimichi, HIRAI Masahiro, NAKANO Tamami, MIYAZAKI Michiko, KAWASAKI Masahiro

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    Although humans are born in a relatively premature state, human newborns do possess an elaborate capacity to process information about both the external world and their own bodies. Our research team (B02) has extended our knowledge about infancy by showing that there is a clear continuity in human sensorimotor development from prenatal to postnatal life. For example, we investigated cerebral responses in full-term neonates and preterm infants at a term-equivalent age, and found that preterm infants follow different developmental trajectories from those born at full term.
    We took charge of leading a constructive developmental science research project. This five-year interdisciplinary research project integrates robotics, medicine, psychology, neuroscience, and Tohjisha-kenkyu (person-centered, peer-supported research). Our aim was to foster a new understanding of human development and its disorders, comprehensive diagnostic methodologies, and truly appropriate assistive technologies.

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  • The evolutionary foundations and function of empathy in relation to the expression of positive emotions in human nursing behaviors

    Grant number:24300103  2012.4 - 2015.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    MYOWA-YAMAKOSHI Masako, FUKUSHIMA Hirokata, SAITO Atsuko, HIRATA Satoshi, ADACHI Ikuma

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    Empathy to positive emotions is unique to humans. What is the adaptive function of this ability? Humans, compared to great apes, show (i) increased infant rearing costs in terms of time and resources, and (ii) increased social smiling in childhood. This increased smiling-in conjunction with rearing adult’s empathy towards such positive emotions-may be driving the increased communal rearing (allomothering), which in turn is crucial for the successful rearing of costly human infants. We investigated the positive empathetic responses of humans and chimpanzees towards infant emotional expressions. For humans, the caregivers increased interactions with infants was positively correlated with the physiological measures for empathy. This suggests that empathy to positive emotions is linked with increased exposure to infants’ smiling. Data remain to be analyzed for chimpanzees. This preliminary evidence supports our theory that empathy to positive emotions is associated with allomothering.

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  • Psychophysiological mechanisms under the "facial feedback" modulation of emotion and cognition

    Grant number:23830107  2011 - 2012

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    FUKUSHIMA Hirokata

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    The present study investigated the psychophysiological mechanisms under facial feedback phenomenon, which refers that facial musculature alters emotional experiences. We measured neural activities (via event-related potential; ERP) and cardiac activities of participants who performed a kind of gambling task. In one experiment, participants unintentionally manipulated their facial muscles during the task. In the other experiment, participants intentionally regulate the magnitude of their emotional experience on the task. ERP results as well as behavioral data suggest that facial manipulation affect earlier and automatic process.

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  • 他者への共感を制御する認知神経生理メカニズムの研究

    Grant number:08J06052  2008 - 2010

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  特別研究員奨励費

    福島 宏器

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    本研究の目的は、他者にたいする共感(感情の共有・理解)が強化または抑制されるメカニズムを明らかにし、さらに共感の強さにおける個人差の原因を解明することである。
    3年目となる今年度は,米国カリフォルニア州における社会性の研究プロジェクトに参加し,(1)他者の感情理解の正確さの個人差の検討,および(2)感情の理解にともなう生理活動の連動が他者理解において果たす役割の検討,の二点に関わる研究に従事した.
    具体的には,30名の実験参加者が,注意や感情を制御する練習を3ヶ月間集中的に行うことによって,心身にどのような効果が現れるかを研究した.実験では,感情を推定される側と推定する側の両者の推定の一致度から「共感の正確さ」を数値化し,同時に,両者の生理指標(心拍・血圧(指先脈派)・発汗・呼吸)の連動を解析することにより,共感の正確さと,共感課題時の生理活動の連動が評価された.
    その結果,注意と感情制御のトレーニングによって,実験参加者の共感性尺度(Davis,1983)は有意に上昇していた.他者の感情理解の正確さについては,一部の課題にのみトレーニングの効果が見られたが,感情制御の訓練による社会不安(とくに愛着不安)の低減が,他者のポジティブ感情の正確な理解に関連することが示唆されている,また,課題中の生理指標から,他者の感情の推測と,その課題中の自分自身の生理的反応(とくに血圧系や皮膚電位系)の連動が変容することも示唆されている.
    申請者は昨年度までに,自分の身体生理活動の調整に関わる神経機構が,他者理解,そして日常場面での共感性と関わっていることを示唆してきた(例えば,Fukushima et al.2011).3年目の研究はなお進行中であるが,申請者のこれまでの成果と合わせて,他者に対する共感の強さや正確さを左右する大きな要因の一つとして,身体の生理的活動と,これに対する認知・神経活動が関わっていることをさらに示唆した.

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  • 自己と他者を識別する脳内機構:事象関連電位法による社会神経科学的検討

    Grant number:05J52332  2005 - 2006

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  特別研究員奨励費

    福島 宏器

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    本研究の目的は、自己および他者に関わる神経表象の関係を、脳波上の事象関連電位計測によって検討し、人間の社会認知や共感的能力を支える脳神経メカニズムを探ることである。初年度には、自己および他者の神経表象の指標となる脳波パターン(Medial-Frontal Negativity ; MFNとよばれる事象関連電位)の確定を行った。これを受けて、二年目となる本年度では、MFN指標の生理学的な特性をさらに詳細に検討した。具体的には、「ギャンブル課題」と呼ばれる、金銭の損得を体験する課題を利用して、自己、および他者の金銭的損得を知覚した際のMFN電位の特性を調べ、以下のような知見を得た。
    (1)対象に対する社会的・心理的帰属の反映:コンピュータプログラムの課題遂行にくらべ、人間、とくに親しい知人の課題遂行の結果を知覚した場合のMFN振幅のほうが大きく、その振幅は対象に対する意図や心的表象の帰属の強度に相関していることが示唆された。
    (2)生理学的な機序の検討:MFNが生じる脳波セグメントを各周波数成分に分解し、シータ波およびガンマ波の相動的な発生と対応している知見を得た。このことは、MFNが前頭葉内側面と大脳辺縁系のネットワークの活動を反映しているとする仮説をサポートするものとなる。
    (3)MFNの特性の一般性の検討:ギャンブル課題に加えて運動上のエラー誘発課題を用い、両課題に通じる個人差傾向を見出し、他者観測時のMFNが課題の特異性を超えた一般性を示唆した。
    こうした知見から、MFNパターンを指標にして、前頭葉内側部の神経活動が社会的・情動的な影響を受けて外界の事象の価値判断を担っていることを示唆し、またこの神経活動を指標にして、自己と他者の社会的関係の認知を検討する手法的な素地を固めることとなった。これらの成果は2006年度の計三つの国内学会発表、および一つの国際雑誌論文として発表された。

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  • Neural correlates of Empathy, Emotion regulation, Self recognition, Sense of agency.

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  • 社会認知神経科学 1.共感、他者理解、自己認識に関わる認知神経機構の解明 2.感情と身体感覚の関連の研究

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  • Neural correlates of human empathy, emotion regulation, self recognition, sense of agency.

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  • Neural correlates of human empathy, emotional experience, emotion regulation, and self recognition.

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  • 講義では、2、3回に1回の割合で、簡単な理解度のチェックのためのミニテストを実施すると共に、講義に対する感想と質問を受講生に書いてもらっている。これによって資料の用意の仕方や提示の仕方を改善し、さらに受講生の感想や質問をフィードバックすることによって、双方向型の授業を作り上げ、理解の促進や授業の改善に役立てている。講義で使用するスライドは、部分的には講義の中で学生自身が書き込めるように作成し、全てをインフォメーションシステムにアップロードし、学生の好評を得ている。 ゼミにおいては、20名の大人数であるので、これを3~5名の小グループに分けて、実践的な実験実習を行わせ、学生が興味をもつ題材・機会に常に接することが出来るようにしている。

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