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- [MultiSensing] Year Started : 2022
Professor
Graduate School of Medicine
The University of Tokyo
Takuya Isomura | Unit Leader Center for Brain Science RIKEN |
We perceive a unified image of the world by integrating multiple senses. For example, when we grasp an object in front of us, we naturally perceive the identity of the object touching our hand and the object we are looking at. In this study, we will elucidate the mechanism that produces such unified perception among multiple senses both experimentally and theoretically by elucidating the coordinate transformation circuit in the multisensory areas in the parietal and temporal lobes, and by predicting and verifying it based on the free energy principle.
Professor
Tough Cyberphysical AI Research Center
Tohoku University
Takatomi Kubo | Associate Professor Graduate School of Science and Technology Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
Miho Nagasawa | Associate Professor School of Veterinary Medicine Azabu University |
Kouichi Fujiwara | Associate Professor School of Engineering Nagoya University |
Toshitaka Yamakawa | Research Associate Department of Research and Development Quadlytics Inc. |
There is a need for research on super sensing that estimates inner human emotions through social signals emitted unconsciously by humans. We propose research on the measurement and elucidation of the super sensing mechanism in which the canines notice human’s inner emotions through unconscious social signals. Facility dogs and general domestic dogs, which are easy to detect changes in the inner emotions of patients and owners, are used to elucidate the mechanism.
Professor
Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
Institute of Science Tokyo
Yukiyasu Kamitani | Department Head Computational neuroscience laboratories Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International |
Masayuki Hara | Associate Professor Graduate School of Science and Engineering Saitama University |
We view the “hallucination spectrum” as a continuum of (1) information completion based on physiological predictions, (2) illusions, and (3) pathological hallucinations according to the degree of control over image generation based on brain predictions. External object, body, and self-images are also viewed as a continuum according to the size of the complementary information based on prediction. We aim to manipulate the hallucination spectrum using XR and robot technology and visualize the brain information representation of the hallucination spectrum by decoding brain information technology in healthy subjects and psychiatric/neurological disorders.
Director
Advanced ICT Research Institute
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Hideyuki Andou | Professor Department of Arts Osaka University of Arts |
Tsuyoshi Nihonsugi | Professor Faculty of Economics Osaka University of Economics |
Taku Hachisu | Assistant Professor Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems University of Tsukuba |
Now that cyber society where individuals move between several virtual worlds as different avatars and operate in multiple worlds is becoming a reality, it is desirable to develop multisensory information communication technology that enables humans to enjoy the benefits of multiple worlds without burdening the brain and body, and also enables self-transformation. In this research, researchers with backgrounds in computational neuroscience, VR technology, haptic devices, and behavioral economics will collaborate to elucidate the brain mechanisms of multiple-world predictive coding and its application.
Professor
College of Science and Engineering
Chubu University
Zin Arai | Professor School of Computing Institute of Science Tokyo |
Nobuyuki Kawai | Professor Graduate school of Informatics Nagoya University |
The perception of one’s own posture and motion state is called spatial orientation. Spatial orientation is formed by integrating multimodal sensory information from vestibular, visual, and somatosensory systems. Animals that have evolved and developed on the earth use gravity, which is invariant at 1 G directed downward, as a reference axis, and form spatial orientation based on gravity sensation estimated in the brain. In this study, we formulate the neural mechanism of gravity perception and spatial orientation formation by multisensory integration using a new mathematical theory, and establish a method to manipulate spatial orientation.
Professor
Graduate School of Medicine
Nagoya University
Kazuo Emoto | Professor School of Science The University of Tokyo |
Rie Hasebe | Specially Appointed Associate Professor National Institute for Physiological Sciences National Institutes of Natural Sciences |
Osamu Matoba | Professor Center for Optical Scattering Image Science Kobe University |
In this study, we will elucidate the molecular and circuit mechanisms, and immune contribution on peripheral and central sensory information processing to clarify the pathological sensory processing in psychiatric diseases. First, the sensory-immune coupling in the peripheral nervous system will be clarified at each developmental stage, focusing on molecular dynamics. Furthermore, sensory transmission using holographic microscopy developed by the applicants will be used to extract pathological features.