不安における注意バイアス, 潜在記憶バイアスに関する研究(原著)

THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON EMOTIONS, 1999

2017

The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, 2007

Rigakuryoho Kagaku, 2010

This study sought to clarify differences in brain activation during the motor cognition by directing subjects' voluntary attention toward an internal or external focus in response to verbal instructions. [Subjects] The subjects were eight right-handed healthy adults. [Methods] The study sought to verify differences in brain activation using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). [Results] A significant increase in oxygenated hemoglobin in the right prefrontal cortex and right parietal region was seen when voluntary attention was directed toward an internal focus with the right hand, and a similar increase in the left prefrontal cortex and left parietal region was seen when voluntary attention was directed toward an external focus with the left hand. [Conclusion] The results suggest that during motor cognition, functional differences of the right and left cerebral hemispheres are present in the form of lateralization in the same cerebral hemispheres as the movements. That is, the right fronto-parietal region takes charge when voluntary attention is directed toward an internal focus with the right hand, while the left fronto-parietal region does so when voluntary attention is directed toward an external focus with the left hand.

Bulletin of Faculty of the Education Hiroshima University Part 1 Educational Research, 1994

Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2007

Many studies have reported learning biases in children's learning of object name, and it has been proposed that the biases limit the kinds of hypotheses children consider as possible word meanings. For example, (1) the mutual exclusivity assumption leads children to expect that each object has only one label, while (2) the whole object assumption leads children to interpret novel terms as labels for objects -not parts, colors, or other properties, and (3) the shape bias leads children to generalize names for objects by shape. However, the biases benefit word learning only when their applications are controlled adequately. In this study, we have constructed a simple model of vocabulary learning agent with symmetry bias. Then, we have explored how the agent controls applications of the biases. Our simulation results show that the agent comes to apply the biases properly as human infants do, according to development: (1) when the agent already knows a label for an object and new label is given for the object, the agent interprets the second label as one representing not object but material; (2) the agent distinguishes between solid objects and nonsolid substances, and generalizes names for solid objects by shape and for nonsolid substances by materials.

The Annals of the Research Project Center For the Comparative Study of Logic, 2008

1996

Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2015

We suggest as an important tool in psychotherapy the use of onomatopoeia. Mood disorder and Anxiety disorder are among the most prevalent mental disorders, and Behavior therapy (BT) is an evidence-based psychological treatment suitable for these cases. Interoceptive sensation is important in BT, because it serves as a barometer for responses. On the other hand, standard assessment methods such as subjects unit of disturbance scale (SUDs) is not optimal. In a different approach, we feel a certain form of it, e.g. Doki-Doki, at the same time when feeling emotion. However, the SUDs is assessed without taking somesthesis into consideration. In addition, BT requires information on somesthesis in order to optimally perform the therapy. Here we propose a solution to this problem, based on using onomatopoeia for SUDs. It can assess appropriately the interoceptive sensations by which a patient is accompanied in anxiety. We report two clinical cases using onomatopoeia for SUDs. This makes for an improved therapy. The internal sense appears during the course of the disease. A treatment is thus provided which is not tied to a diagnosis name, but rather by emphasizing the "internal sense," which is more effective in producing an improvement towards curing.