Use of brain information to understand mental process in preverbal infants

2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24650133
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Joetsu University of Education
• Principal Investigator: MORIGUCHI Yusuke 上越教育大学, 学校教育研究科(研究院), 准教授 (80546581)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
• Keywords: 乳幼児 / 脳情報の利用 / 前頭葉 / 好み / 意思

Research Abstract

The present study examined relationships between brain activations and mental activities, such as preferences in young children using near-infrared spectroscopy. Moreover, this study aimed to decode the mental activities from such brain information. As the results, we showed that children's activations in the primary motor cortex were related to their preferences to humans. In addition, the results revealed that children's motor information can be decoded from the activations in the primary motor cortex.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Behavioral and neural differences during two versions of cognitive shifting tasks in young children and adults (2014)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y., & Hiraki, K.
  • Journal Title: Developmental Psychobiology Volume: 56 Pages: 761-769
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Prefrontal cortex and executive function in young children : a review of NIRS studies (2013)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y. and Hiraki K
  • Journal Title: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Volume: 7 Pages: 867
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00867
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Neurobehavioral and hemodynamic evaluation of cognitive shifting in children with autism spectrum disorder (2012)
  • Author(s): Yasumura, A., Kokubo, N., Yamamoto, H., Yasumura, Y., Moriguchi, Y., Nakagawa, E., Inagaki, M., Hiraki, K.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science Volume: 2 Pages: 463-470
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The effect of social observation on children's inhibitory control (2012)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume: 113 Pages: 248-258
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Observed human actions, and not nechanical actions, induce searching errors in infants (2012)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y., Matsunaka, R., Itakura, S., & Hiraki, K.
  • Journal Title: Child Development Research Volume: ID 465458
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 現実およびテレビの他者から学習する際の幼児脳の反応 (2013)
  • Author(s): 森口佑介, 開一夫
  • Organizer: 第77回日本心理学会
  • Place of Presentation: 札幌市産業振興センター,札幌
  • Year and Date: 20130919-21
• [Presentation] 実行機能の初期発達とその脳内機構 (2013)
  • Author(s): 森口佑介
  • Organizer: 第14回日本認知神経リハビリテーション学会
  • Place of Presentation: 門真市民文化会館ルミエールホール
  • Year and Date: 2013-07-07
• [Presentation] 近赤外分光法を用いた運動情報のデコーディング : 成人と幼児を対象にした予備的検討 (2012)
  • Author(s): 森口佑介, 金山範行, 安村明, 開一夫
  • Organizer: 第15回光脳機能イメージング研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 星陵会館
  • Year and Date: 2012-07-28
• [Book] おさなごころを科学する:進化する乳幼児観 (2014)
  • Author(s): 森口佑介
  • Total Pages: 276
  • Publisher: 新曜社
• [Book] Dev elopmental relationship between executive function and the prefrontal cortex in young children. In R. O. Collins & J. L. Adams (Eds), Prefrontal Cortex : Developmental Differences, Executive and Cognitive Functions and Role in Neurological Disorders (2013)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y., & Hiraki, K.
  • Total Pages: 155-14
  • Publisher: NY : Nova Science Pub Inc
• [Remarks]
  • URL: http://www.juen.ac.jp/lab/moriguchi/