6 Course Catalog
Subject

Mind Sciences
Research Method Ⅰ（Research Survey）

2

Research is a method of providing new experiences and knowledge throughobservations, analysis, and experimentation on existing findings. Researchrequires that existing knowledge and knowledge that one hopes to obtain are
rigorously classified. It also requires strict and logical planning andimplementation in order to obtain truly new knowledge. This course provides
students with methodologies to reliably prepare research on the sciences of themind through close discussion between students and faculty advisors. Students
must have obtained credit for the “Mind Sciences Research Methods Ⅰ（Research Survey）course” in order to take this course.

2

Presenting a talk or poster in English at a scientific organization or researchsociety allows one to show their research results, and is important as a meansof exchanging information. This lecture advises students on how to best
understand the gist of sample research papers and accurately transmit the
information to someone else, from the point of view of a scientist or engineer.
Participants will select a representative example of literature in their own
fields, will understand the gist of the paper with guidance from the lecturer,
and will present the paper themselves. They will then receive advice on how
to improve. Advice is given on such topics as creating slides, establishingpoints, presenting in English, and finding points to question in thepresentations of others. Therefore, students participate not only as presenters,
but from the standpoint of those listening to and discussing the presentation.

2

Human and animal brains can extract important information from hugesensory information, and can learn appropriate behavior through experience.
This ability is impossible for current computers to perform. This lecture
introduces various interesting phenomena in neuroscience and psychology,
while mathematically describing the phenomena and exploring mechanisms
behind the phenomena. Students will learn using concrete examples in whichmathematics plays a role in exploring these mechanisms, and cultivate
mathematical skills.

2This course explains technologies how the brain and computers communicate
and exchange information. The technologies include, neuronal encoding anddecoding methods in order to implement a Brain-Machine Interface, as well as
findings related to multivariate analysis for neuronal activity, BOLD signals or
EEG signals. I will also introduce mechanisms how the brain control arms, legs,
eyes, and other parts of the body. Students will also learn about electrodetechnologies used to obtain various information obtaining from nerve and brain
activity, and about machine learning methods from these neural data into
voluntary movements.

心の科学研究法Ⅰ（研究サーベイ）

Mind Sciences
Research Method Ⅱ（Research Planning）
心の科学研究法Ⅱ（研究計画）

Research Presentation
Research Presentation

Mathematical Brain
Science
脳の数理

Brain-Machine Interface
ブレインマシンインタフェース（BMI）

2016 大学院要覧

心の科学専攻（修士課程）

2

Research in Master’s Program develops findings, technologies, and ways ofthinking that are recognized as widely useful in a given field. Therefore, it isnecessary to understand through which means research is carried out in thefield of modern sciences of the mind, and estimate the direction of future
research by understanding the flow of research until now. This course
provides students with knowledge in order to position their own research in
the world and continue on to planning the next step to take in their research,by teaching them methods to read and organize literature related to thesciences of the mind.

脳科学研究科

About the course

Ⅱ 教育課程表および講義内容

Credit125

SubjectCognitive
Developmental
Robotics

CreditAbout the course

2This course introduces more advanced content related to cognitive robotics
and the latest research developments. Various technologies are related torobotics technology, such as machinery, electronics, and information
technology, and we believe that artificial-intelligence technology is important in
combining all of these. The objective of this course is for students to acquire
knowledge and deepen their understanding regarding granting robots
intelligence and autonomy, by considering elemental technologies such asimage processing, motion generation, and situated reasoning, and how to
combine these with a focus on developing intelligence in robots. In particular,
students will consider the implementation of robots that behave autonomously
while interfacing with environments in the real world, from the perspective oflearning algorithms.

2

The purpose of this class is for students to understand the current progress ofbrain informatics research in the world; learn computational approaches withrelated theories and practices; understand technologies to apply and evaluate
analytical methods, theories, and computational models in their own research.
In order to achieve these purposes, this class is held in a seminar style, inwhich invited researchers give talks about advanced topics in brain informatics
and related fields. This seminar is partly conducted in the Brain Science
Retreat.

2

The fundamental question, “what is human being,” has traditionally beenaddressed in the fields of philosophy and literature. From the viewpont of
natural sciences, it is the brain that makes us human. Neuroscience hasdeveloped remarkably over the past few decades, and we are now able toinvestigate human brain functions scientifically. Through this class, students
will better understand the structure of the human brain, the methodologies tostudy human brain functions, a variety of results from neuroscience, and thepossibility of change in understanding human being on the basis ofneuroscience.

2

Molecular biological research methods are put into practice in a wide varietyof life science research fields from basic biology to applied sciences including
medical science. In this lecture, students first learn basic knowelde of molecularbiology that crucial for researchers involved in the life sciences. Then, theyattempt to clarify to what degree brain functions are clarified at molecularlevels, by reading recent research papaers in which molecular biological
techniques are used.

2

In this lecture, students will understand mathematical models of decisionmaking, as well as the related brain areas and neuronal activities involved indecision-making in animals and humans. In particular, I introduce the basics ofreinforcement learning theories from the classical and operant conditioning in
the psychological theory. The course will explain the anatomy and physiologyof the parietal cortex, prefrontal cortex, and basal ganglia, which haveimportant functions in decision making. Additionally, advanced students willlearn through reading review literature in related own current research
related to decision making.

2

The objective of this lecture is for students to gain a neuroscientificunderstanding that is conscious of the “hierarchical nature” of the brain, inorder to understand the framework and working of the mind. In particular,
students will focus on the neural circuitry of the brain's hierarchical structure,
and will take note of the structural and functional relationships between it andthe nerve cell level below, as well as the levels between brain areas above.
Students will learn research methods that are best suited for each level, andwill consider what can and cannot be clarified on a fundamental level.
Furthermore, students will discuss how neuroscientific findings on the cellular,
circuit, and regional levels are connected with understanding the framework
and working of the mind. The mind is presented from a scientific point of viewin this way. This seminar is partly conducted in the Brain Science Retreat.

知能発達ロボティクス

Advanced Mind
Sciences（Brain Informatics）
心の科学先端セミナー A（脳情報科学）

Brain Science andHumans
脳科学と人間Molecular Life Science
分子生命科学

Decision Neuroscience
意思決定の神経科学

Advanced Mind
Sciences（Neuroscience）
心の科学先端セミナー B（神経科学）

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Subject

Developmental Scienceof Mind2

Students aim to interpret activities at childcare and educational sites based on
psychological findings, widen their view of human understanding, and deepen
their understanding. In particular, students will grasp childrearing andeducational processes based on the latest research developments, and will
investigate to what degree “teaching” activities（thought to be unique tohumans）support these childrearing and educational processes. Additionally,
students will consider how these activities at childcare and educational sites
are inseparable from culture and situational relationships. Specifically, students
will engage in discussion while interpreting the latest research, and will
investigate childcare and educational practices from a standpoint based on
research results.

2

Students will deepen their understanding related to human language
utilization, namely, production, comprehension, writing and reading, fromdimensions such as basic cognitive mechanisms, acquision, and evolution. They
will also consider clinical and engineering applications.

2

In this seminar, we conduct talk series of scientists who are well-known
throughout the world in cutting edge in the field of neuroscience, psychology,
and social science. The seminar will invite scientists from neuroscience and the
behavioral sciences, because “the sciences of the mind” are composed fromboth of these fields. Participants will not only learn the cutting edge of thelatest research, but also will attempt to obtain a wider perspective on theirown field by gaining a wider point of view bridging understanding across thenervous, behavioral, and social levels that form the bases of the sciences of themind, and discussing these with researchers working in a variety of fields. Thisseminar is partly conducted in the Brain Science Retreat.

2

The higher brain functions, such as sensory perception and cognition, goaldirected action, emotion, judgment, and thinking are performed via nerve cells（of which there are over ten billion in the cerebral cortex alone）forming aunique network in the brain and carrying out the expression and processing ofneural information based on brain's operating principles. In “Systems
Neuroscience”, students will organize knowledge about neuronal mechanismsof feature extraction and object recognition through sensory systems, control
of behavior, learning and memory, emotion and motivation, and decisionmaking. Students will learn how to integrate knowledge of systems
neuroscience and that of psychology and computational theories.

2

In this lecture, students will systematically learn such topics as the goals, basic
principles, examples, and history of anatomical and physiological experiments
and technologies, as a neuroscientific approach necessary to understand theframework and working of the mind. For anatomical experimental techniques,
students will learn standard observation techniques of the structure of thebrain using the naked eye and microscopes. For physiological experimental
techniques, students will learn standard recording methods to measure theelectrical activity of individual nerve cells and groups of cells. Students will
come to understand the characteristics of each experimental technique, andwill gain the ability to think of techniques suitable to their research goals.

心の発達科学

Educational Science
心の教育科学

Psycholinguistics
心の言語心理学

Advanced
Mind Sciences（Human Science）
心の科学先端セミナー C（人間科学）

Systems Neuroscience
システム神経科学

Systems Neuroscience
Methodシステム神経科学技術2016 大学院要覧

心の科学専攻（修士課程）

2

The goal of this class is to deepen understanding of the primary factors related
to mechanisms of child development from a scientific perspective. Students will
discuss and consider establishing developmental science research topics andtheir application, while obtaining wide-ranging knowledge in developmental
psychology, cognitive science, brain science, and neurophysiology.

脳科学研究科

About the course

Ⅱ 教育課程表および講義内容

Credit127

SubjectHuman Cognitive
Neuroscience

CreditAbout the course

2

The primordial question, “what is humanity,” has traditionally come from thefields of philosophy and literature. The essential organ that makes us humanfrom natural sciences point of view is the brain. Neuroscience has developed
remarkably over the past few decades, and we have become able to examine
the functions of the human brain scientifically. Students will deepen theirunderstanding of the structure of the human brain, scientific methodologies forstudying the functions of the human brain, results that have been obtained inneuroscience to date, and the possibility of change in human understanding
based on neuroscience.

2

The objective of this course is to understand basic knowledge and technologies
necessary in functional MRI（fMRI）research. Students will come up withbasic problems in order to measure brain activity using fMRI, will carry out
fMRI experiments using these problems, and will analyze fMRI data.
Additionally, the course will explain more complicated analysis techniques（correlated analysis and network analysis）．Students will learn of the brain
functions that can be understood using neuroimaging （as well as its
limitations），and will obtain knowledge to allow them to accurately
understand research papers in which fMRI was used.

2

Cognitive science is a field of scientific study that views human cognitive
functions such as memory, thought, and problem-solving as a kind of“information processing” system; uses both the construction of information
processing models as well as the analysis based on observation andexperiments; and clarifies human cognitive function mechanisms. The objectiveof this lecture for students is to learn about the knowledge expression througha computer. The knowledge expression is a basic concept of cognitive science,and is essential for deepening the understanding of learning and problemsolving mechanism. In particular, topics such as the memory model, knowledge
expression, knowledge acquisition, problem-solving, and metacognition will beraised.

2Social psychology is an academic discipline that investigates the workings ofthe human mind in mainly interpersonal situations. This course will not only
deepen students' understanding of which environmental factors have an effecton social behaviors, but will deepen their understanding of how they areprocessed within the individual by introducing important behavioral
experiments in social psychology and touching upon social neuroscience, wheremuch experimentation has been conducted recently. Specifically, the objectiveof this course is to deepen students' understanding related to the neural basesof social behaviors by introducing experiments that use functional magnetic
resonance imaging（fMRI）．

2

We acquire information about music by listening and communicate it to otherpeople using a natural language. The correspondence between musical entities
and verbal expressions that designate them is to some extent arbitrary,
however. Therefore the verbal communication of musical information may
cause much misunderstanding, which in turn makes the data processing of theinformation by computers problematic.
Drawing on the latest music theory, analytic philosophy, formal logic, andcognitive science, this course discusses the categorization and the formation ofnotions of musical entities and examines the relationships between theknowledge representation of music and natural languages.

ヒト認知神経科学論

Neuroimaging Analysis
脳イメージ解析学

Cognitive Science
認知科学

Social Psychology
社会心理学

Neural KANSEI Science
神経感性科学1282016 大学院要覧

Subject

Philosophy of Mind
心の哲学

ニューロエシックス研究

Comparative Ethology
比較行動学

Behavior Analysis

2

Neuroethics was established with the development of neuroscience. What does
it ask? What does it reveal? In this lecture, students will understand the basic
concepts of neuroethics while confirming and surveying backgroundinformation on recent controversies. In addition, students will gather materials,
make presentations, exchange opinions, and write a report focusing on concrete
issues such as “the brain enhancement,” “free will,” “crime,” “mental disorders,”and “moral judgments.” Furthermore, students will confirm if any ethical issues
have occurred with the progress of brain sciences research, and will
investigate ways to cope with them.

2

The mind cannot be physically held, so one valid means to understand it is to
examine observable behaviors created through the wroking of the mind. In
Comparative Ethology, we will consider how the mind is formed in theevolution as well as in the environments and societies of humans and animals,by learning human and animal behaviors through observations andexperiments, and highlighting their similarities and differences. In this lecture,
students will learn many topics from basic behaviors such as perception andmemory to social behaviors（including developmental changes）among
humans and animals through introducing basic comparative ethology methods
and research papers. Students will aim to develop a deep humanunderstanding from multiple viewpoints.

2

The aim of this lecture is to understand how to measure the human mind
scientifically. Especially we focus on the methods and analyses about thefunction of the mind in the social situations. We learn about the methods ofsocial psychological research（experimental method, survey method, andobservation method）and learn about how to make the experimental materials,
the effective experimental design, and the procedures of the experimentthrough the experience of social psychological experiment with economic
games. We learn about basic statistical analysis in the second half of thelecture.

2

Living things maintain homeostasis through various complicated functions. The
maintenance of homeostasis involves mainly metabolic adjustment mechanisms
and biological defense mechanisms. In this lecture, students will learn about
these metabolic adjustment mechanisms and biological defense mechanisms inunderstanding the maintenance of homeostasis in living things. Students will
become able to explain mammalian immunological responses from themolecular level to the level of the organism, with the reactions of living things
to outside stimuli as an example. The objective of this course is for students togain the ability to analogize similarities with other fields.

2

In order to manufacture agricultural chemicals and drugs with a high degreeof safety, it is important to first discover both lead compounds（which are thekeys to new agricultural chemicals and drugs）and prototype compounds byscreening and synthesizing many natural resources. The objective of thislecture is to deepen understanding of what should be considered when
discovering new agricultural chemicals and drugs. Additionally, students inthis lecture will consider the basics of medicinal chemistry. Finally, students
will aim to understand the basics of what should be considered in drug
discovery.

生体防御特論

Applied Bioorganic
Chemistry
応用生物有機化学2016 大学院要覧

心の科学専攻（修士課程）

Advanced Biological
Defense2

Students will survey the history of philosophy, investigate recent controversies,
and confirm what has been clarified as of now, in order to deepen theirunderstanding of the mind and body, particularly their relationships with thebrain. Students will also consider what is necessary for animals other thanhumans and systems to have a mind. In this lecture, students will confirm thebasic concepts of philosophy, while cultivating a comprehensive view of themind as they continue to take in findings in such fields as biology, psychology,sociology, and linguistics. As the lecture continues with a focus on student
discussion, students will write a final report under the guidance of the
instructor.

脳科学研究科心の行動分析学

About the course

Ⅱ 教育課程表および講義内容

Neuroethics Research

Credit129

Subject

Cellular Signal
Transduction

CreditAbout the course

2

Multicellular organisms maintain homeostatis of their internal environments in
response to external stimuli and the external environment. Signal transduction
mechanisms in and between cells are essential in order to maintain theorganism's vital functions. In this lecture, students will aim to deepen theirunderstanding of the signal transduction mechanisms in the cells ofmulticellular organisms. Students also aim for a general understanding of thenames and activation frameworks of proteins that take part in signaltransduction.

2

This course will explain new biological research methods that use the latest
informatics technologies and their applications, and will carry out practicaltraining that makes use of computers in familiar topics that can be utilized in
day-to-day research activities. In particular, students will understand and gain
knowledge of important technologies in bioinformatics, such as genesequencing analysis, promoter design, gene expression analysis, and gene
network analysis. Furthermore, students will attempt to construct models
according to their research topics in systems biology（an attempt tounderstand life as a system based on biophysics），a new and challenging fieldin the life sciences. Students will understand the way of thinking, maintechniques, and applications in biology for bioinformatics. Finally, students will
aim to be able to independently carry out analysis that makes use of
bioinformatics technologies using a computer.

2

Scientific development relies on trueness, trust and fairness of research
practice. Scientific misconduct -violation of these norms- hampers the sounddevelopment of science. We discuss scientific misconduct and questionable
research practice through case study and cultivate research ethics as practical
wisdom.

2

With the goal of connecting the specialized knowledge and skills they havegained thus far in their learning with the knowledge and skills required bysociety, students will aim to carry out work experience related to their fields ofspecialty or to their future careers at places of employment such as
corporations or research institutions. Through internships, students further
increase their specialized knowledge, and at the same time become able todesign accurate learning goals for acquiring wide-ranging and related
specialized knowledge, by understanding relations and gaps in their own
research topics.

2

In addition to targeted phenomena, errors are introduced in data obtained
through surveys and experiments as a result of a variety of factors. The
research process requires researchers to eliminate these factors one-by-one,and grasp the true characteristics that show the sought phenomena. This
course discusses models for experimental data and analysis methods used in
the sciences of the mind, and guides students in how to think about
constructing theories and models for phenomena in the sciences of the mind
through discussion on surveys and experiment data with faculty advisors.
Students must have obtained credit for the “Mind Sciences Research Methods
Ⅰ（Research Survey）” and “Mind Sciences Research Methods Ⅱ（Research
Planning）” courses in order to take this course.

2

Research first becomes significant when intentions, methodologies, and results
are shown, interpretations of the results have been deeply discussed, and it has
all been recorded as an original research paper with novelty and validity thatanyone would recognize. While writing a research paper on the sciences of themind wherein readers will understand one’s intent and acknowledge its novelty
is not an easy task, it is the standard technique to have one’s researchrecognized. In this course, faculty advisors individually guide students on thesemethods. Students must have obtained credit for the “Mind Sciences Research
MethodsⅠ（Research Survey）,” “Mind Sciences Research MethodsⅡ（Research
Planning）,” and “Mind Sciences Research MethodsⅢ（Data Analysis）” courses
in order to take this course.

細胞情報伝達論

Applied Bioinformatics
応用バイオインフォマティクス

Research Ethics
研究者倫理Internshipインターンシップ

Mind Sciences
Research Method Ⅲ（Data Analysis）

心の科学研究法Ⅲ（データ解析）

Mind Sciences
Research Method Ⅳ（Thesis Writing）

心の科学研究法Ⅳ（論文作成）

1302016 大学院要覧