The Brain Club Archive

Last-modified: 2012-11-09 (金) 21:33:07

2012 First half: April 2012- September 2012

1st(#334) :2012/04/06(Fri): Research Talk & Journal Club

  • Jangara nianfo dance and happiness in a local community.
    Research Talk M. Nakano
  • Emotional time travel: Emotion regulation and the overestimation of future anger and sadness.
    van Dijk WW, van Dillen LF, Seip EC, Rotteveel M.
    European Journal of Social Psychology 42(3): 308-313 (2012) [Abstract]
    Report F. Tanabe
  • Action alters object identification: Wielding a gun increases the bias to see guns.
    Witt JK, Brockmole, JR.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (in press) [Full text]
    Report T. Takano

2nd(#335) :2012/04/20(Fri): Guest Talk, Research Talk & Journal Club

  • About Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 July 22 in Akuseki island from 1999 to 2009.
    Guest Talk K. Yagi
  • Body context and posture affect mental imagery of hands.
    Ionta S, Perruchoud D, Draganski B, Blanke O.
    PLoS One 7(3):e34382. (2012) [Full text]
    Report T. Sudo
  • An aspect of a game theory.
    Research Talk T. Sudo
  • Empirical support for higher-order theories of consciousawareness.
    Lau H, Rosenthal D.
    Trends Cogn Sci. 15(8):365-73. (2011) [Abstract]
    Report K. Mogi
  • Designing prosthetic and Orthotic devices.
    Guest Talk K. Endo

3rd(#336) :2012/04/27(Fri): Guest Talk, Research Talk & Journal Club

  • Learning Characteristics of Chaotic Neural Networks.
    Guest Talk H. Sugimoto
  • Risk aversion and Prospect theory.
    Research Talk T. Sudo
  • Neural Mechanisms of Foraging.
    Kolling N, Behrens TE, Mars RB, Rushworth MF.
    Science 336(6077):95-8. (2012) [Abstract]
    Report T. Ishikawa

4th(#337) :2012/05/09(Wed): Special Session

We discussed about the progress of ongoing works for upcoming abstract submission.

5th(#338) :2012/05/11(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

  • Identity development during creative make-up sessions.
    Breitenbach N.
    The Arts in Psychotherapy 11(2):101-107. (1984) [Abstract]
    Report A. Onzo
  • Orthographic processing in baboons (Papio papio).
    Grainger J, Dufau S, Montant M, Ziegler JC, Fagot J.
    Science 336:245-8. (2012) [Abstract]
    Report M. Toshima
  • When are two heads better than one and why?
    Koriat A.
    Science 336:360-2. (2012) [Abstract]
    Research Talk T. Ishikawa
  • Tapping into the wisdom of the crowd--with confidence.
    Hertwig R.
    Science 336:303-4. (2012) [Abstract]
    Research Talk T. Ishikawa

6th(#339) :2012/05/25(Fri): Interim Presentation, Journal Club & Research Talk

  • M. Toshima made her interim presentation of doctoral course.
  • Hiding feelings: the acute effects of inhibiting negative and positive emotion.
    Gross JJ, Levenson RW.
    J Abnorm Psychol. 106(1):95-103. (1997)
    [Full text]
    Report T. Takano
  • Experimentally induced life-history evolution in a natural population.
    Reznick DA, Bryga H & Endler JA.
    Nature 346, 357-359. (1990). [Abstract]
    Report K. Mogi
  • Intention to Act: Do We Have Free Wil?
    in "Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness." Chapter 4.
    Libet B.
    Harvard University Press (2004) [Abstract]
    Research Talk T. Herai
  • Brain and Body.
    in "The Illusion of Conscious Will" Chapter 2.
    Wegner DM.
    MIT Press (2002) [Abstract]
    Research Talk T. Herai

7th(#340) :2012/06/01(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

  • How voluntary actions modulate time perception.
    Wenke D and Haggard P.
    Exp Brain Res. 196(3): 311-318. (2009) [Full text]
    Report T. Herai
  • The Binding Problem
    Research Talk K. Mogi

8th(#341) :2012/06/08(Fri): Journal Club

  • Manipulable objects facilitate cross-modal integration in peripersonal space.
    van Elk M and Blanke O.
    PLoS One 6(9):e24641. (2011) [Full text]
    Report T. Sudo

9th(#342) :2012/06/15(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

  • What failure in collective decision-making tells us about metacognition.
    Bahrami B, Olsen K, Bang D, Roepstorff A, Rees G, Frith C.
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 367(1594):1350-65. (2012) [Full text]
    Report T. Ishikawa
  • Motivation and physiological responses.
    Research Talk T. Sekine

10th(#343) :2012/06/22(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

  • Using texts in science education: cognitive processes and knowledge representation.
    van den Broek P.
    Science 328:453-6. (2010) [Abstract]
    Report M. Toshima
  • Research Talk on imitation by T. Sudo
  • Research Talk on collective intelligence by T. Ishikawa
  • Research Talk on freedom by K. Mogi

11th(#343) :2012/06/29(Fri): Preparation for the ASSC annual meeting

  • We discussed about posters for the upcoming conference, ASSC16.
    Poster T. Ishikawa, et al., K. Mogi, & T. Takano, et al.

12th(#344) :2012/07/19(Thu): Journal Club & Guest Talk

  • Infants prefer the faces of strangers or mothers to morphed faces: an uncanny valley between social novelty and familiarity.
    Matsuda YT, Okamoto Y, Ida M, Okanoya K, Myowa-Yamakoshi M.
    Biol Lett. (2012) [Epub ahead of print] [Full text]
    Report T. Takano
  • Electrophysiology of the songbird.
    Guest Talk Tatsuo Okubo @McGovern Institute, MIT

13th(#345) :2012/07/27(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

  • Don't look back in anger! Responsiveness to missed chances in successful and nonsuccessful aging
    Brassen S, Gamer M, Peters J, Gluth S, Büchel C.
    Science 336(6081):612-4. (2012) [Abstract]
    Research Talk A. Onzo
  • Perceived Predation Risk Reduces the Number of Offspring Songbirds Produce per Year
    Zanette LY, White AF, Allen MC, Clinchy M.
    Science 336(6081):612-4. (2012) [Full text]
    Report T. Takano
  • Men behaving nicely: Public goods as peacock tails
    Vugt MK, Iredale W.
    The British of Psychological Society (2011) [Full text]
    Report T. Takano
  • Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all?
    Easterlin RA.
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (1995) [Full text]
    Report K. Mogi

14th(#346) :2012/08/03(Fri): Journal Club & Guest Talk

  • Local Warming: Daily Temperature Change Influences Belief in Global Warming.
    Li Y, Johnson EJ, Zaval L.
    Psychological Science 22(4):454-459. (2011) [Full text]
    Report T. Herai
  • Multiple neural representations of object-directed action in an imitative context.
    Ogawa K, Inui T.
    Exp Brain Res 216:61-69. (2012) [Abstract]
    Report T. Sudo
  • The next innovation on the Web 2.0.
    Guest Talk K. Shinjo

15th(#347) :2012/08/10(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

  • Crowd perception in prosopagnosia.
    Leib AY, Puri AM, Fischer J, Bentin S, Whitney D, Robertson L.
    Neuropsychologia 50(7):1698-707. (2012) [Full text]
    Report A. Onzo
  • Identifying influential and susceptible members of social networks.
    Aral S, Walker D.
    Science 337:337-341. (2012) [Abstract]
    Report T. Ishikawa
  • D-serine and nitric oxide synthase in the rat brain.
    Research Talk T. Takano

16th(#348) :2012/08/17(Fri): Journal Club, Research Talk & Guest Talk

  • Personality neglect. The unforeseen impact of personal dispositions on emotional life.
    Quoidbach J, Dunn EW.
    Psychol Sci. 21(12):1783-6. (2010) [Abstract]
    Report T. Takano
  • Dissociable roles of ventral and dorsal striatum in instrumental conditioning.
    O'Doherty J, Dayan P, Schultz J, Deichmann R, Friston K, Dolan RJ.
    Science 304:452-4. (2004) [Abstract]
    Report K. Mogi
  • Feeding-induced dopamine release in dorsal striatum correlates with meal pleasantness ratings in healthy human volunteers.
    Small DM, Jones-Gotman M, Dagher A.
    Neuroimage 19(4):1709-15. (2003) [Abstract]
    Report K. Mogi
  • When your gain is my pain and your pain is my gain: neural correlates of envy and schadenfreude.
    Takahashi H, Kato M, Matsuura M, Mobbs D, Suhara T, Okubo Y.
    Science 323:937-9. (2009) [Abstract]
    Report K. Mogi
  • Activity in the amygdala elicited by unfair divisions predicts social value orientation.
    Haruno M, Frith CD.
    Nat Neurosci. 13(2):160-1. (2010) [Abstract]
    Research Talk T. Ishikawa
  • Neural basis of egalitarian behavior.
    Dawes CT, Loewen PJ, Schreiber D, Simmons AN, Flagan T, McElreath R, Bokemper SE, Fowler JH, Paulus MP.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109(17):6479-83. (2012) [Abstract]
    Research Talk T. Ishikawa
  • Lost letter measure of variation in altruistic behaviour in 20 neighbourhoods.
    Holland J, Silva AS, Mace R.
    PLoS One 7(8):e43294. (2012) [Full Text]
    Research Talk T. Ishikawa
  • The Future of Human and Design
    Guest Talk Shunji Yamanaka

17th(#349) :2012/08/24(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

  • War and peace.
    Aumann RJ.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103(46):17075-8. (2006) [Full text]
    Research Talk K. Mogi
  • Conceptual knowledge for understanding other's actions is organized primarily around action goals.
    van Elk M, van Schie HT, Bekkering H.
    Exp Brain Res. 189(1):99-107. (2008) [Full text]
    Report T. Sudo
  • Time Flies When You're Having Approach-Motivated Fun: Effects of Motivational Intensity on Time Perception.
    Gable PA, Poole BD.
    Psychol Sci. 23(8):879-86. (2012) [Abstract]
    Report T. Herai

18th(#350) :2012/09/7(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

  • The influence of social comparison on visual representation of one's face.
    Zell E, Balcetis E.
    PLoS One 7(5):e36742. (2012) [Full text]
    Report A. Onzo
  • Dimensions of mind perception.
    Gray HM, Gray K, Wegner DM.
    Science 315:619. (2007) [Full text]
    Report A. Onzo
  • More than a body: mind perception and the nature of objectification.
    Gray K, Knobe J, Sheskin M, Bloom P, Barrett LF.
    J Pers Soc Psychol. 101(6):1207-20. [Full text]
    Report A. Onzo
  • Choosing Here and Now versus There and Later: The Moderating Role of Psychological Distance on Assortment Size Preferences
    Goodman JK, Malkoc SA
    Journal of Consumer Research (2012) [Epub ahead of print] [Full text]
    Report T. Ishikawa
  • Cognitive underpinnings of the "use it or lose it" phenomena
    Research Talk K. Mogi

19th(#351) :2012/09/14(Fri): Brain Storming & Experiment

We discussed ongoing projects and conducted the behavioral experiment.

20th(#352) :2012/09/28(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

  • Shape of glass and amount of alcohol poured: comparative study of effect of practice and concentration.
    Wansink B, van Ittersum K.
    BMJ 331:1512-4. (2005) [Full text]
    Report T. Takano
  • Glass shape influences consumption rate for alcoholic beverages.
    Attwood AS, Scott-Samuel NE, Stothart G, Munafò MR.
    PLoS One 7(8):e43007. (2012) [Full text]
    Report T. Takano
  • Neural evidence for inequality-averse social preferences.
    Tricomi E, Rangel A, Camerer CF, O'Doherty JP.
    Nature 463:1089-91. (2010) [Abstract]
    Report K. Mogi
  • Embodiment of time and mental imagery.
    Research Talk T. Herai