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The neural mechanism of the "sense of unity" between self and other

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16H02839
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Cognitive science
Research InstitutionMeiji University

Principal Investigator

Shimada Sotaro  明治大学, 理工学部, 専任教授 (70440138)

Research Collaborator Matsumoto Kenji  
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥16,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,750,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥6,110,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,410,000)
Keywords社会性 / ミラーシステム / 脳機能イメージング / ハイパースキャニング / 社会性認知 / 脳認知科学 / 一体感 / 認知科学 / 脳・神経
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we conducted a cognitive neuroscience study to understand how the “sense of unity” emerges between the self and others, especially in relation to the activation of the mirror neuron system and the reward system in the brain. We addressed two social cognitive tasks, namely cheering and being-imitated tasks, to see whether the sharing of reward is important for the formulation of the sense of unity or not. The results showed that sharing reward simultaneously activated the mirror neuron system and the reward system and enhanced the sense of unity between the self and others.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果は、ミラーシステムと報酬系が自己と他者の「一体感」を形成する上で重要な役割を果たすことを示した点で学術的に新規で重要である。特に応援課題と他者に模倣される被模倣課題という異なる2つの課題を用いて、同様の結果を得たことは本研究の結果の妥当性を示している。報酬を共有することによって自己と他者の一体感が形成されるという本研究の知見は、会社や学校などにおける効果的なグループの形成など、さまざまな社会的場面に応用可能である。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Annual Research Report
  • 2016 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (22 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 Other

All Journal Article (7 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 6 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (13 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Socially Anxious Tendencies Affect Impressions of Others’ Positive and Negative Emotional Gazes.2018

    • Author(s)
      Yuki Tsuji, Sotaro Shimada
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Psychology

      Volume: 9 Pages: 2111-2111

    • DOI

      10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02111

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Cheering enhances inter-brain synchronization between sensorimotor areas of player and observer2018

    • Author(s)
      Tadayoshi Koide, Sotaro Shimada
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Psychological Research

      Volume: 60(4) Issue: 4 Pages: 265-275

    • DOI

      10.1111/jpr.12202

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Spontaneous imitative movements induced by an illusory embodied fake hand2018

    • Author(s)
      S. Shibuya, S. Unenaka, T. Zama, S. Shimada and Y. Ohki
    • Journal Title

      Neuropsychologia

      Volume: 111 Pages: 77-84

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.023

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Socially anxious tendencies affect neural processing of gaze perception2017

    • Author(s)
      Yuki Tsuji, Sotaro Shimada
    • Journal Title

      Brain and Cognition

      Volume: 118 Pages: 63-70

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.bandc.2017.08.002

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] We-mode 認知脳科学の可能性.2016

    • Author(s)
      嶋田総太郎
    • Journal Title

      心理学評論

      Volume: 59(3) Pages: 232-235

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] ミラーニューロンシステムの活動計測による3次元音場再現システムの定量的評価.2016

    • Author(s)
      小林まおり, 土田江一郎, 上野佳奈子, 嶋田総太郎
    • Journal Title

      日本バーチャルリアリティ学会論文誌

      Volume: 21(1) Pages: 73-79

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 仮説検証サイクルと記号設地.2016

    • Author(s)
      橋田浩一, 嶋田総太郎, 今井むつみ
    • Journal Title

      認知科学

      Volume: 23(1) Pages: 65-73

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] The senses of ownership and agency in first- and third-person perspectives in the full body illusion.2018

    • Author(s)
      Sotaro Shimada
    • Organizer
      The 2nd International Symposium on Embodied-Brain Systems Science (EmboSS2018)
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Enhancement of empathy for other’s pain by vicarious reward: A skin conductance response study.2018

    • Author(s)
      Mizuki Nakajima, Sotaro Shimada
    • Organizer
      48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN2018)
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Inter-brain synchronization during cooperative joint action reflects the sense of joint agency.2018

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Shiraishi, Sotaro Shimada
    • Organizer
      Organization on Human Brain Mapping (OHBM2018)
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Enhancement of empathy for pain by vicarious reward measured with skin conductance response2017

    • Author(s)
      Mizuki Nakajima, Aziem Abdullah, Sotaro Shimada
    • Organizer
      23th Annual Meeting of the Organization on Human Brain Mapping
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Socially anxious tendencies affect impression of the other’s happy and disgusting gazes2017

    • Author(s)
      Yuki Tsuji, Sotaro Shimada
    • Organizer
      47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Intersubject correlation analysis of students’ brain activity during listening to teacher’s explanation.2016

    • Author(s)
      Yusuke Hirako, Tadayoshi Koide, Takaai Ito, Sotaro Shimada
    • Organizer
      46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      San Diego
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-12
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Effect of cheering on functional connectivity between the player's and the observer's brain activity during a competitive game.2016

    • Author(s)
      Tadayoshi Koide, Sotaro Shimada
    • Organizer
      46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      San Diego
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-12
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Socially anxious tendency affects discrimination of emotions in other's gaze.2016

    • Author(s)
      Yuki Tsuji, Sotaro Shimada
    • Organizer
      46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      San Diego
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-12
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Vicarious reward enhances the mirror neuron system activity: An EEG study.2016

    • Author(s)
      Tsukasa Inomata, Takuro Zama, Yu Inoue & Sotaro Shimada
    • Organizer
      46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      San Diego
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-12
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 代理報酬によるミラーニューロンシステムの活動変化2016

    • Author(s)
      Aziem Athira Abdullah、尾崎明美、小出允善、嶋田総太郎
    • Organizer
      日本認知科学会第33回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      北海道大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-16
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 応援が対戦ゲームにおけるプレイヤーと観察者の脳機能結合に与える影響 ー二人同時脳活動計測による検討ー2016

    • Author(s)
      小出允善、 嶋田総太郎
    • Organizer
      日本認知科学会第33回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      北海道大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-16
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 他者の視線に対して抱く感情に社交不安傾向が与える影響2016

    • Author(s)
      都地裕樹、嶋田総太郎
    • Organizer
      日本認知科学会第33回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      北海道大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-16
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Functional connectivity between dorsomedial prefrontal and motor cortices during being imitated.2016

    • Author(s)
      Aziem Athira Abdullah, Akihiro Sato, Madoka Matsumoto, Yukihito Yomogida, Kenji Matsumoto, Sotaro Shimada
    • Organizer
      The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      Geneva
    • Year and Date
      2016-06-26
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 認知脳科学2017

    • Author(s)
      嶋田 総太郎
    • Total Pages
      179
    • Publisher
      コロナ社
    • ISBN
      9784339078121
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 明治大学 理工学部 電気電子生命学科 認知脳科学研究室

    • URL

      http://www.isc.meiji.ac.jp/~sshimada/index.html

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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