| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥6,760,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,560,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Training of Japanese macaques using mirrors and virtual reality devices was able to induce behaviors that show self-mirror image recognition, which has been considered not to occur in the natural state. In such monkeys, neuronal activities were recorded from the secondary somatosensory area of the cerebral cortex and its surrounding parietal operculum and posterior insular cortex, which process and integrate, in addition to the somatosensory information, other information of visual and auditory modalities related the whole body regardless of the body parts. By analyzing activity patterns of those neurons, the self as the subject of consciousness was represented as not just a physical aggregate of body parts, but is structured to comprise a part of the whole in relation to others and the surrounding living environments, which further advanced considerations to establish the concept of the core-self, by philosophical and psychological speculations.
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