2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Research of pleasant sounds those bring human relaxation, based on the neural mechanism of instinct.
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19700201
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Sensitivity informatics/Soft computing
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
SHUTOH Fumihiro University of Tsukuba, 大学院・人間総合科学研究科, 講師 (10326837)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 感性脳科学 / 感性官能評価 / 脳機能 / 聴覚 / 本能 / 情動 / 近赤外光 |
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| Research Abstract |
I explored the attractive sounds for human, and physical effects of those attractive auditory stimulations were examined in both of the human and the mouse. Human examinees were exposed a sequence of auditory stimulation which are composed of several kinds of sound (ex. watch, wavelets, music) and white noise. Some of these sounds were judged as attractive by the examinees in an interview study. A near infrared spectroscopic study revealed that the activity of the frontal cortex were stable during the attractive sound stimulation. I kept mice in a box that controlled sound and light condition. The mice were exposed twelve hours (20:00-8:00) of the attractive sound stimulation for a week. After the sound exposing period, the mice were sacrificed and monoamine concentration in their brain was measured by high performance liquid chromatography. Concentration of serotonin in the frontal brain region of the sound exposed mice was higher than the mice kept in silent. These results suggest that serotonergic system can be involved in the attractive physical effects of sounds.
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Research Products
(5 results)
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[Presentation] Brain function to measure Kansei.2008
Author(s)
Fumihiro Shutoh
Organizer
Kansei engineering and emotion research international seminar 2008 in NCKU
Place of Presentation
National Chen-Kun University, Tainan, Republic of China
Year and Date
2008-10-03
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