6 Course Catalog
Subject

Mind Sciences
心の科学Research Presentation
Research Presentation

Research Ethics
研究者倫理Advanced Mind
Sciences Ⅰ

CreditAbout the course

2In this lecture, we conduct omnibus lecture series of faculties in the various
fields of neuroscience, behavioral sciences, and computational theory.
Participants will attempt to obtain a wider perspective on their own field bygaining a wider point of view bridging understanding across the nervous,
behavioral, and social levels that form the bases of the sciences of the mind.

2Presenting 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 theinformation 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

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.

1

In this seminar, we conduct talk series of scientists who are well-known
throughout the world in cutting edge in the field of neuroscience, behavioral
sciences, and computational theory. Participants will not only learn the cuttingedge of the latest research, but also will attempt to obtain a wider perspectiveon their own field by gaining a wider point of view bridging understanding
across the nervous, behavioral, and social levels that form the bases of thesciences of the mind. This seminar is partly conducted in the Brain Science
Retreat.

1

In this seminar, we conduct talk series of scientists who are well-known
throughout the world in cutting edge in the field of neuroscience, behavioral
sciences, and computational theory. Participants will apply their own
experiences in `Advanced Mind Sciences II' to obtain effective information as
discussing with top researchers working in a variety of fields. This seminar ispartly conducted in the Brain Science Retreat.

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.

心の科学先端セミナーⅠAdvanced Mind
Sciences Ⅱ
心の科学先端セミナーⅡ

Mathematical Brain
Science
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SubjectBrain and Machinelearning

2

To understand signal processing in the brain, it is necessary to analyze
functional spike activity of neurons which can be measured throughelectrophysiological techniques. In this lecture, students will learn the basics,
merits and demerits, and applications of several electrophysiological techniques,
focusing on representative researches on the mechanism of neural signalprocessing. The students will also have a simulated experience to review an
original paper as a reviewer with scientific insight and criticism so as to clarify
neural signal processing.

2

This 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 incombining 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.

2The 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 “SystemsNeuroscience”, 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 systemsneuroscience and that of psychology and computational theories.

2The 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.

2The fundamental question, “what is human being,” has traditionally beenaddressed in the fields of philosophy and literature. From the viewpont ofnatural 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.

脳と機械学習Neural SignalProcessing
神経信号処理Cognitive
DevelopmentalRobotics
知能発達ロボティクス

Systems Neuroscience
システム神経科学

Cognitive Neuroscience
認知神経科学

Brain Science andHumans
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心の科学専攻（修士課程）

2

This course explains the basics of machine learning and the relationship withneuroscience. In particular, the three frameworks of supervised, unsupervised,
reinforcement learning and each learning algorithm were explained. Students
will study about concrete machine learning methods such as statistical basic
knowledge that supports these algorithms, regression, classification problem,and Bayesian inference. I also explain the relationship between these statisticalconcepts, or learning algorithms, and the neural mechanism of perception anddecision making. In particular, students will understand the computational
theory of visual cortex and the basal ganglia explained by the neural correlatesof these algorithms.

脳科学研究科

About the course

Ⅱ 教育課程表および講義内容

Credit133

Subject

Neuroimaging Analysis
脳イメージ解析学

Developmental Science
発達科学基礎論

Psycholinguistics
言語発達心理学

Educational Psychology
教育発達心理学

Experimental SocialPsychology

CreditAbout the course

2The 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 itslimitations），and will obtain knowledge to allow them to accurately
understand research papers in which fMRI was used.

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.

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.

2Students 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

Social 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）．

2The mind cannot be physically held, so one valid means to understand it is to
examine observable behaviors created through the working of the mind. We
will consider how the mind is formed in the evolution as well as in theenvironments and societies of humans and animals, by learning human andanimal behaviors through observations and experiments, and highlighting theirsimilarities and differences. In this lecture, students will learn many topics frombasic behaviors such as perception and memory to social behaviors（including
developmental changes）among humans and animals through introducing
basic behavioral scientific methods and research papers. Students will aim todevelop a deep human understanding from multiple viewpoints.

実験社会心理学

Behavioral Sciences
行動科学

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Neural KANSEI Science
神経感性科学

分子生命科学

Neuroethics Research
ニューロエシックス研究

Internship 560
インターンシップ 560（Research Survey）

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 biologicaltechniques are used.

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

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 relatedspecialized knowledge, by understanding relations and gaps in their own
research topics.

2Research 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.

2Research 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.

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）

2018 大学院要覧

心の科学専攻（修士課程）

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.

脳科学研究科

Mind Sciences
Research Method Ⅰ

About the course

Ⅱ 教育課程表および講義内容

Molecular Life Science

Credit135

Subject

Mind Sciences
Research Method Ⅲ（Data Analysis）

CreditAbout the course

2In addition to targeted phenomena, errors are introduced in data obtainedthrough 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（ResearchPlanning）” 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 ResearchMethodsⅠ（Research Survey）,” “Mind Sciences Research MethodsⅡ（ResearchPlanning）,” and “Mind Sciences Research MethodsⅢ（Data Analysis）” courses
in order to take this course.

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）

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