2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
| Project Area | The Science of Mental Time: investigation into the past, present, and future |
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| Project/Area Number |
25119007
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Review Section |
Complex systems
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| Research Institution | Meikai University |
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Principal Investigator |
OTSU Yukio 明海大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80100410)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
飯田 隆 日本大学, 文理学部, 教授 (10117327)
今西 典子 文京学院大学, その他部局, 非常勤講師 (70111739)
小町 将之 静岡大学, 人文社会科学部, 准教授 (70467364)
嶋田 珠巳 明海大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80565383)
西山 佑司 慶應義塾大学, 言語文化研究所(三田), 名誉教授 (90051747)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-06-28 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 言語 / 脳の時間地図 / 楔前部 / 言語獲得 / 言語類型論 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project was aimed at exploring how brain processes time. In order to build a solid foundation, we explored how time is handled in species-specific language, its philosophical significance, cross-linguistic variations of time expressions and its typological significance, and the development of time expressions in children. Based on our findings regarding these topics, we conducted fMRI experiments with Shigeru Kitazawa's research team, and found out that the medial regions involving the precuneus and the posterior cingulate cortex constitute a ‘map of time' that is shared across native speakers of different languages.
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| Free Research Field |
認知科学
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