Research Areas

Theoretical Linguistics

• Morphology
• Syntax

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

• Morphological Analysis
• Parsing
• Cognitive Modeling

Cognitive Neuroscience

• Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
• Electroencephalography (EEG)
• Electrocorticography (ECoG)

Research Projects

Principal Investigator

• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, “The Origin of Human Lexicon”, 2020-2022.
• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, “The Japanese Lexicon Project”, 2020-2023.
• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, “Construction and evaluation of neurocomputational models of natural language”, 2019-2021.
• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up, “Computational cognitive neuroscience of lexical processing”, 2018-2020.
• National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Collaborative Research Project, “Computational psycholinguistics of language processing with large corpora”, 2019-2022.

Co-Investigator

• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), “Elucidation of the neural basis of language through integration of theory, models, and experiments”, PI: Shinri Ohta (Kyusyu University), 2019-2023.
• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), “Why every human language have a grammar?: A study on neural oscillation in predictive language processing using MEG”, PI: Hiromu Sakai (Waseda Univresity), 2018-2021.
• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), “How does grammar emerge in the human brain?: An insight from the East Asian comparative cognitive neuroscience of language”, PI: Hiromu Sakai (Waseda University), 2015-2020.