Empirical study of relationship promotion between reader and listener in the activity to sheare picture book to each other

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01770
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Childhood science (childhood environment science)
• Research Institution: Utsunomiya University
• Principal Investigator: ISHIKAWA YUMIKO 宇都宮大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (80282367)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 小林 久男 高崎健康福祉大学, 人間発達学部, 教授 (50004122) ; 齋藤 有 聖徳大学, 児童学部, 講師 (60732352) ; 佐藤 鮎美 島根大学, 人間科学部, 講師 (90638181)
• Research Collaborator: MIZUTANI Tsutomu ; NAKANO Miko
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ｆNIRS / 絵本 / 読み合い遊び / ミラーニューロン / 脳活動 / 身振り / オノマトペ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, I consider the effect of gesture and onomatopoeia on the listener during the activity to read picture book to each other based on brain activity. With healthy adult, reading “booing” with gesture made prefrontal cortex related to mirror neuron and language understanding active, while with “aaggghh”, it decreased meaning that the sort of onomatopoeia changes the behavior. With healthy child, there was no specific activity with “booing” but healthy child and child with handicap who do reading activity to each other periodically have their near speech area active implying the relationship between picture book and language development.

Free Research Field

臨床発達心理学