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Exprience-based approach to bodily self using the "Squeeze machine"

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K18346
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 90030:Cognitive science-related
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

Minoura Mai  早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 助手 (10801269)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords身体的自己認識 / 自己と他者 / 認知実験 / クロスモーダル / 意思決定 / 認知科学 / 行動学 / 心理学 / 身体的自己意識 / 身体的自己 / 締め付け機 / 志向性 / 受動と能動
Outline of Final Research Achievements

What is "my own body"? How do "self" and "others/external world" interact each other? As facing such problems which would be essential for our cognitive activity, I proposed an approach with "Squeeze machine".
"Squeeze machine" is a device to get relax as pressing user's whole body by one's self, and has been used for occupational therapy. Meanwhile, I focus on the fact that the inventor of this machine overcame her problem due to autism and said "the machine taught what "to empathy for others" is". Thus, this machine is remarkable not just for its relaxing effect, but for its potential to be a tool to observe the interaction between our body and mind. With this motivation, I introduce this machine to various cognitive experiments.
The main finding is that; "Squeeze machine" could degrade our representative boundary of "Peri-personal space". That was demonstrated using pre-established experimental paradigm and published as two peer-reviewed papers.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

長く議論されてきた身体と心の問題に新しい知見を加えた。特に、身体へのシンプルな物理的作用がその本人の表象的な自己認識や意思決定に影響をきたすこと、その際に自己の中の他者性への明示化がポイントとなることが示唆された点が新しいと思われる。
作業療法の場で一部の人たちに使われてきた機具を認知科学の分野に持ち込み、定型者を対象にした実験から傾向を捉えることで、両方をまたぐ議論を可能にした。

Report

(3 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2020 2019

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Squeezed and released self: Using a squeeze machine to degrade the peri-personal space (PPS) boundary2020

    • Author(s)
      Minoura Mai、Tani Iori、Ishii Takahiro、Gunji Yukio-Pegio
    • Journal Title

      Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

      Volume: ― Issue: 3 Pages: 1-10

    • DOI

      10.1037/cns0000223

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Observing the Transformation of Bodily Self-consciousness in the Squeeze-machine Experiment2019

    • Author(s)
      Minoura Mai、Tani Iori、Ishii Takahiro、Gunji Yukio- Pegio
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Visualized Experiments

      Volume: 145 Issue: 145 Pages: 1-1

    • DOI

      10.3791/59263

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Closed but Opened bodily self-consciousness: PPS boundary disappearance with the Squeeze Machine2019

    • Author(s)
      Minoura Mai、Tani Iori、Ishii Takahiro、Gunji Yukio-Pegio
    • Organizer
      The Science of Consciousness (TSC2020)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 締め付けられる身体と不確実性へ開かれる精神 「締め付け機」からくる・からくり2019

    • Author(s)
      Minoura Mai、Tani Iori、Ishii Takahiro、Gunji Yukio-Pegio
    • Organizer
      共創学会第3回年次大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Experience type approach to bodily self-consciousness with the Squeeze Machine2019

    • Author(s)
      M Minoura, I Tani, T Ishii, YP Gunji
    • Organizer
      International Convention of Psychological Science 2019
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 「締め付け機」を用いた身体とマインドフルネスの連関についての実験的アプローチ2019

    • Author(s)
      箕浦舞, 谷伊織, 石井孝弘, 郡司幸夫
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第82回大会 公募シンポジウム「マインドフルネスの新しい地平を拓く」
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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