Effect of the media on the development of social cognition

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22240026
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: HIRAKI Kazuo 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (30323455)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SHIMADA Soutaro 明治大学, 理工学部, 教授 (70440138) ; MORIGUCHI Yusuke 上越教育大学, 学校教育研究科, 准教授 (80546581) ; DAN Naoko 帝京科学大学, こども学部, 准教授 (40531877)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 映像メディア / 認知発達 / 乳幼児 / 模倣

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this project was to clarify the long-term effect of media(e.g. TV, Video Game) with respect to social cognition. We conducted several studies with infants, pre-schoolers, and adults using cutting-edge devices such as NIRS or HD-EEG. The results of these studies suggested the importance and advantage of developmental cognitive neuroscience. For instance, one of our studies revealed that child's motor area was responded to real person performance but not to a demonstration in TV. The other study using EEG/ERP revealed that long-term playing of video-game effected to emotional face perception even after three month later. Also the same type of study with children revealed that this effect on emotional face perception was not observed in school children. These results indicate the need of developmental cognitive neuroscience approach for the future research that aims to solve important problems with children.

Free Research Field

認知科学