People

Professor

Takeru Honma phonology, phonetics, linguistic theory
Naomi Harada, PhD syntax, morphology, comparative syntax, case
Fumitaka Homae, PhD developmental brain science, cognitive neuroscience, language acquisition
Ryu-ichiro Hashimoto, PhD neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry

Associate Professor

Masataka Yano, PhD Psycholinguistics

Assistant Professor

Yutaka Fuchino, PhD neuroscience, developmental science

Project Associate Professor

Lisa Sugiura, PhD cognitive neuroscience, second language acquisition
Ryuta Aoki, PhD Social neuroscience

Project Assistant Professor

Misato Kasuya

Researcher

Yasuto Yada

Graduate Students

Eunbi Park PhD3 cognitive neuroscience, speaking
Yukihide Horiguchi PhD3 cognitive neuroscience
Kengo Matsuhashi PhD3 cognitive neuroscience
Matea Tolić PhD2
Ruri Shimura M1

Undergraduate Students

Ryo Fukada Shuto Yoshikawa Yukiho Kondo
Carolina Satoy Aiko Kitahara Daiki Kagawa
Taisei Kuramoto    
Yuika Hotta Momoha Osawa Kasumi Chiba
Chihiro Toyoshima Hiroanne Toriumi Masao Sugai
Rei Obara Midori Ukai
Yuki Iwasaki Mei Morishita Yamato Nishizawa
Taichi Bando Yoichiro Nakamura Chiharu Onaka
Hiyori Ito    

Research Staff

Michiko Matsumoto Yoko Moriya

Administrative Staff

Nariko Harada Izumi Kishida  

Professor Emeritus

Heizo Nakajima, PhD
Kunihiko Imai, PhD  
Meiyo Mitsunobu  
Hiroko Hagiwara, PhD  

Faculty (in the past)

     
Makoto Fujii, (2005~2020)
Naoya Fujikawa, PhD, (2016~2018)
Yasuhito Hosaka, (1994~2011)
Hiroshi Hasegawa (1996~2006)
Ken-ichi Takami, PhD, (1997~2005)
Nobuko Hasegawa, PhD, (1992~1995)

Alumni and Alumnae

The PhD Program

Yasuto Yada (2023)
Gakuji Kumagai, PhD (2015) The Logical Problem of Loanword Adaptation and Hidden Phonology. (Chair: Takeru Honma)
Natsuko Tatsuta, PhD (2014) An Event-related Brain Potential Study of English Morphosyntactic Processing in Japanese Learners of English. (Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
Masahiro Hata, PhD (2012) Effects of Grammatical and Semantic Categories on Lexical Processing of
Single Words: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigation.
(Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
Shizuka Utsuboe, PhD (2011) Function –Driven Movement: Left-Peripheries in English. (Chair: Yasuhito Hosaka)
Ikuko Hasebe, PhD (2010) On the Formation of Complex Predicates and the Modularity of Morphology. (Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
Ayumi Koso, PhD (2008) Phonological Processing in the Comprehension of Spoken Japanese: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Studies. (Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
Noboru Kamiya, PhD (2007) Word Formation and the Syntactic and Semantic Structures of Adjectives. (Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
Takahiro Soshi, PhD (2007) Linguistic Integration: Event-related Potential Studies. (Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
Tatsuya Ito, (2007)
Kosuke Tanaka (2006)
Isamu Gyoda (2005)
Hiroki Egashira (2004)
Tetsuo Matsuyama (2003)
Masayuki Ikeuchi, PhD (2002) Predication and Modification – A Minimalist Approach. (Chair: Heizo Nakajima)
Kensuke Takonai (2001)
Ichiro Hirata, PhD (1995)
Keizo Mizuno (1994)
Yubun Suzuki (1993)

The Master’s Program

Akiko Ogino, MA (2022) A retrospective study for neuropsychological outcomes of intraoperative language mapping guided awake craniotomy (Chair: Ryu-ichiro Hashimoto)
Yukihide Horiguchi, MA (2019) The implicit checking of lexical relation between verbs and objects in the processing of case information: an ERP study (Chair: Fumitaka Homae)
Kengo Matsuhashi, MA (2019) Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation to language-related regions on speech fluency under delayed auditory feedback (Chair: Ryu-ichiro Hashimoto)
Eunbi Park, MA (2018) The Effect of Speech Motor Command on Lexical Processes in Word Production (Chair: Fumitaka Homae)
Atsushi Noto, MA (2017) On the mechanism of beneficiery theta-role assignment in the "te ageru" construction in Japanese (Chair: Naomi Harada)
Zhang Yan, MA (2016) The A+I construction and Unaccusative Hypoyhesis (Chair: Naomi Harada)
Yasuto Yada, MA (2016) Induction of speech fluency by using transcranial direct current electrical stimulation and delayed auditory feedback (Chair: Ryu-ichiro Hashimoto)
Yuki Dobashi, MA (2014) Unaccusativity in English and German An Exo-Skeletal Approach (Chair: Naomi Harada)
Gakuji Kumagai, MA (2013) Hidden Native Phonology of Tokyo Japanese Accentuation (Chair: Takeru Honma)
currently PhD student at Department of Language Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Hidekazu Yarimizu, MA (2012) Category-dependent Interference with Target-stimulus Identification.
 (Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara), currently PhD student at Psychology Department, Chukyo University
Yoko Obara, MA (2008) Cortical Activation of Speech Planning during Verb Generation Task: Studies with
Event-related Potentials.
(Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
currently Speech Therapist at Hatsudai Rehabilitation Center, Tokyo
Takaya Kurihara, MA (2009) Early Syntactic Responses to Word Category Violations in Japanese: An Event-related
Brain Potential Study.
(Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
Saki Kasai, MA (2009) Cortical Activity Underlying the Processing of Native and Second Language Repetition Task:
A Near-infrared Spectroscopy Study.
(Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
Shinji Yanase, MA (2008) Analysis of Middle Construction in English and German. (Chair: Yasuhito Hosaka)
Ruri Kataoka, MA (2008) Conceptual Processing of Words and Pictures: An Event-related Potential Study.
(Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
Naoko Nakamura, MA (2006) Universal Grammar and Foreign Language Acquisition: A Developmental Study of Passive Unaccusatives in L2 English. (Chair: Yasuhito Hosaka)
Ayumi Koso, MA (2005) Processing Japanese Ditransitive Sentences Varying in Word Order: A Neuropphysiological Study. (Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara)
Utako Minai, MA (2003) Children’s Acquisition of Passive Sentences in Japanese. (Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara),
PhD in Linguistics at University of Maryland, Collage Park, currently Assistant professor of Linguistics, Kansas University, USA

Past Visiting Researcher

Daisuke Tsuzuki, PhD information engineering, neuroscience
Takayuki Kimura (2022) second language acquisition, theoretical linguistics
Gakuji Kumagai, PhD (2015-2018) phonology
Ryu-ichiro Hashimoto, PhD (2012) currently Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University
Xiaoli Li, PhD (October 5-20, 2011) Professor at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Shiro Ojima, PhD (2006-2011) currently Post-doc researcher at University of Tokyo
Shinji Fukuda (2005) Associate Professor at Health Sciences University of Hokkaido

Closely affiliated faculty in other departments

Department of Psychology

Masami Ishihara, PhD Associate Professor, human perception and behavioral sciences
Akio Shimokawa Professor, clinical psychology

Department of Life Sciences

Toshiro Aigaki, PhD Professor, genetics, molecular biology, genomic science
Takaomi Sakai, PhD Professor, neurogenetics

Department of Frontier Sciences

Kiyoaki Kikuchi, PhD Professor, cognitive neuroscience, fMRI
Kuniyasu Imanaka, PhD Professor, cognitive science, perception
Kazu Amimoto, PhD Professor, rehabilitation science

University Education Center

Ichiro Yuhara, PhD Associate Professor, syntax, semantics, linguistic theory

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