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The fMRI investigation of the developmental process of the perception of supernatural agent and prosocial behavior

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26560415
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Childhood science (childhood environment science)
Research InstitutionOsaka University

Principal Investigator

Takahashi Hideyuki  大阪大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (30535084)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) Mifune Nobuhiro  高知工科大学, 経営学部, 講師 (00708050)
Morita Tomoyo  大阪大学, 工学研究科, 特任講師 (60543402)
Moriguchi Yusuke  上越教育大学, 学校教育研究科, 准教授 (80546581)
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Keywords超自然的存在 / 子ども / fMRI / 規範的行動 / パレイドリア錯覚 / リズム同期 / イマジナリーコンパニオン / 子どもfMRI
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although there are huge diversities in beliefs of supernatural agents among cultures and societies, legends and myths describing about these agents exist in all culture and societies without exceptions. This fact implies that infants and young children have kinds of prototype images about the supernatural agent from birth.In this study, we have tried to verify this hypothesis by developing a new experimental task that could evaluate how the interpersonal rhythmic synchrony affected the visual illusion in random-dots images.We performed behavioral and fMRI experiments in both adults and children and we found the phenomenon that rhythmic synchrony enhances the visual illusion regardless of subject's age. From this finding,we argued the psychological and neural mechanisms about how young children perceive the supernatural agents.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2015 2014

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] The anterior insula tracks behavioral entropy during an interpersonal competitive game2015

    • Author(s)
      Takahashi H., Izuma K., Matsumoto M., Matsumoto K., Omori T.
    • Journal Title

      PLOS ONE

      Volume: 10-6 Issue: 6 Pages: 0-0

    • DOI

      10.1371/journal.pone.0123329

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Different impressions of other agents obtained through social interaction uniquely modulate dorsal and ventral pathway activities in the social human brain2014

    • Author(s)
      H. Takahashi, K. Terada, T. Morita, S. Suzuki, T. Haji, H. Kojima, M. Yoshikawa, Y. Matsumoto, T. Omori, M. Asada, and E. Naito
    • Journal Title

      Cortex

      Volume: (印刷中) Pages: 289-300

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.cortex.2014.03.011

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] リズムの集団間シンクロが促進するパレイドリア錯覚 -没集団行動が生み出すエージェント幻想の脳プロセスの探究-2015

    • Author(s)
      高橋英之,伴碧,守田知代,内藤栄一,浅田稔
    • Organizer
      2015年度日本認知科学会第32回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      千葉大学(千葉県 千葉市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-18
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 太鼓ロボットとのリズム遊びが ロボットをモチーフとした子どもの描画に与える影響2015

    • Author(s)
      伴 碧,高橋英之,浅田稔
    • Organizer
      2015年度日本認知科学会第32回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      千葉大学(千葉県 千葉市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-18
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2017-05-10  

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