Global Research Center for Logic and Sensitivity

Further develop research on the relationship between logical judgment and intuition.

Continue multi-layered research on the characteristics of aesthetic judgment, value assessment, and ethical judgment.

Conduct cognitive neuroscience research on the emotional processing functions of the insular cortex and on the relationship between the function of the frontal pole and depressive symptoms.

In parallel, further develop foundational research on the evolution of emotional contagion and empathy through experimental methods using physiological indicators and neuroscientific experiments on mice and crows.

Conduct cross-disciplinary research spanning logic, cognitive information science, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and behavioral psychology on how the presentation of judgment and thinking tasks affects subjects' judgments, decision-making, and thoughts.

Advance interdisciplinary and multi-layered research on the development of sociality and communication through experiments with subjects including infants, children, and twins. Also, continue the longitudinal study of children at risk for ASD.

Further clarify the effects of the support programs we have developed on changes in interpersonal and parent-child relationships using motion capture and eye trackers. Apply the research findings on logic and sensitivity to support for children with intellectual disabilities, support for dementia, educational support, and graphic display support in an aging society. Utilize findings from medical cultural anthropology, developmental science, neuroscience, logic, and other fields.

Research on facial impressions, and research on expertise and creativity.

Geoarchaeology of rain-fed taro field landscapes and meteorological disasters that support atoll societies in Oceania.

Regarding logical judgment and argumentation, we gained new insights from a constructivist and intuitionistic argumentative perspective. We also advanced research on the foundational theories of rationality and normativity and on decision-making.

In the areas of aesthetic judgment and value assessment, we advanced art historical research. Regarding analytic aesthetics, we promoted multi-layered research that included philosophical studies and experimental scientific studies of aesthetic evaluation. We also conducted multi-layered research on the beauty of gardens and (coral reef) landscapes, as well as research related to art and other museums.

We examined in detail what kind of cognitive impairments and neurodegeneration appear due to disorders of the neural basis of emotion and memory.

In addition to foundational research on emotional contagion, empathy, and logical cognition using experimental animals such as mice and crows, we also achieved pioneering results in the field of eel neuroscience.

We compiled our findings on response bias in questionnaires and web surveys, and on how the presentation of tasks in web surveys and eye-tracking experiments affects subjects' judgments, decision-making, and thoughts. We also compiled our findings on how the choice of different graphic designs affects decision-making and logical reasoning.

We advanced interdisciplinary research on the development and evolution of sociality and communication, including with subjects such as infants, children, and twins, and further accumulated original findings.

We applied the research findings on logic and sensitivity to support for children with intellectual disabilities and social support for dementia. We introduced methodologies from developmental science, neuroscience, and medical cultural anthropology for this purpose. Additionally, we utilized an early developmental support program at community bases and analyzed its effects. We considered the nature of multi-layered medical support from a medical anthropological perspective.

We demonstrated the relationship between Wittgenstein's theory of argumentation and constructive/intuitionistic arithmetic. We achieved results on the foundational reasoning of argumentation using philosophical and computational methods.

Regarding foundational research on aesthetic judgment, we advanced research on the logic and sensitivity of light, shadow, and color in works of art. We applied the methods of analytic aesthetics to the aesthetic judgment of music.

Regarding item 3 above (Implementation Details, Research Outcomes, and Degree of Achievement...), we clarified that the insular cortex, the center of emotion, is involved in the recognition of subtle emotions, and that the frontal pole is related to cognitive processing associated with the future.

Using experimental animals (mice and crows), we achieved results in foundational research on intelligence, emotional contagion, and sociality through experimental methods using physiological indicators and neuroscientific techniques. Regarding crows, we clarified the relationship between the evolution of logic associated with tool use and morphological characteristics, attracting attention as the first example outside of humans.

We investigated and analyzed in a multi-layered manner how differences in presentation methods affect preferences, judgments, decision-making, and judicial rulings, gaining new insights. We clarified this through surveys such as web surveys and multi-attribute product catalogs, and their data analysis.

We demonstrated that a mother's speech to her newborn activates the brain's functional circuits for language, a finding that was covered by many media outlets.

We achieved cross-disciplinary results in preparatory research for applying the study of logic and sensitivity to areas such as support for children with intellectual disabilities, support for dementia, support for logic education, and graphic display support in an aging society. Research groups with methodologies in developmental science, neuroscience, medical anthropology, and information logic pursued these key research themes in parallel and achieved results. For example, we incorporated an early developmental support program developed using developmental science methods into a smartphone app and achieved success through its use in pediatric departments of hospitals and clinics.

We advanced multi-layered landscape research, including "garden art studies" (Gartenkunst) on modern German gardens and research on the rain-fed taro field landscapes of atoll societies in Oceania.