Development of social communication skill for the deaf based on cognitive neuroscience

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24300279
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Tsukuba University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: NAMATAME Miki 筑波技術大学, 産業技術学部, 教授 (20320624)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): WATANABE Katsumi 東京大学, 先端科学技術研究センター, 准教授 (20373409) ; MATSUDA Tetsuya 玉川大学, 脳科学研究所, 准教授 (30384720) ; NAGAMORI Yusuke 筑波技術大学, 産業技術学部, 助教 (70553931)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MATSUSIMA Eisuke 東京医科歯科大学, 医歯(薬)学総合研究科, 教授 (50242186) ; FUKAMAUCHI Fumihiko 筑波技術大学, 名誉教授 (90240746)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 聴覚障害者 / 認知神経科学 / fMRI / 社会的コミュニケーション / 補助教材

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It is difficult to get verbal sounds and environmental sound for hearing impaired people. So they used to gap the social cognitive activity. We clarified their gaps by using eye-tracking and functional MRI scientifically.Deaf or hearing impaired people mainly work on information processing by visually information. However, we revealed that they handled a phoneme by using language processing. As a result, we developed the learning materials to improve social communication skills. We have developed a tablet application and a system to support peer review learning for social communication education. The results show that our system were effective to improve social communication skills.

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