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TERAI Asuka 教授
TERAI, Asuka Professor
TERAI Asuka Professor
TERAI AsukaBelongs:
Department of Complex and Intelligent Systems; Intelligent Information and Science
Field of Study
Cognitive SciencePrevious employment/history
Tokyo Institute of TechnologySubjects in charge (undergraduate)
Linear Algebra 1, Cognitive ScienceBachelor of Science
Doctor (Engineering)
TERAI, Asuka Professor
Affiliation：
Department of Complex and Intelligent Systems、 Intelligent Information Science Field
Research Fields
Cognitive ScienceAcademic Background
Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of TechnologySubjects in Charge (Undergraduate)
Linear Algebra 1, Cognitive ScienceDegree
Doctor of EngineeringRelated Links
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Research Projects
From a cognitive science perspective, I research "creation" that occurs when different "concepts" merge. In particular, I focus on understanding metaphors and am working to elucidate the cognitive mechanisms by which new meanings (creative interpretations) emerge.
The appeal of research
What makes this research interesting is that it aims to theoretically elucidate the mechanisms of human thought through various approaches, such as simulations based on language data, questionnaire surveys, and psychological experiments involving eye-tracking and brain activity measurements.
Major publications and papers
- Asuka Terai, Masanori Nakagawa, Takashi Kusumi, Yasuharu Koike, Koji Jimura. Enhancement of visual attention precedes the emergence of novel metaphor interpretations, Frontiers in Psychology, Jun. 2015.
- Asuka Terai, Masanori Nakagawa. A corpus-based computational model of metaphor understanding consisting of two processes, Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 19-20, p. 30-38, Mar. 2012.
- Asuka Terai, Bin Liu, Masanori Nakagawa. Probabilistic Hierarchical Categorization of Japanese Words, Kazuo Shigemasu, Akinori Okada, Tadashi Imaizumi and Takahiro Hoshino (Eds.) New Trends in Psychometrics, Universal Academic Press, pp. 471-480, Dec. 2008.
Research Contents
I study “Creativity”, which happens through conceptual combination from the view point of cognitive science. Especially, I try to elucidate cognitive mechanism realized in the process of novel meaning emergence in metaphor comprehension.
Attractive Factors of My Research
Human cognitive mechanisms are being studied through various approaches as computational model simulation based on language data, questionnaire survey or psychological experiments including measurement of eye movement or brain activity. It is very exciting to tackle this theme, I think.
Major Books and Papers
- Asuka Terai, Masanori Nakagawa, Takashi Kusumi, Yasuharu Koike, Koji Jimura. Enhancement of visual attention precedes the emergence of novel metaphor interpretations, Frontiers in Psychology, Jun. 2015.
- Asuka Terai, Masanori Nakagawa. A corpus-based computational model of metaphor understanding consisting of two processes, Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 19-20, p. 30-38, Mar. 2012.
- Asuka Terai, Bin Liu, Masanori Nakagawa. Probabilistic Hierarchical Categorization of Japanese Words, Kazuo Shigemasu, Akinori Okada, Tadashi Imaizumi and Takahiro Hoshino (Eds.) New Trends in Psychometrics, Universal Academic Press, pp. 471-480, Dec. 2008.
Research seeds related to this faculty member
Unraveling cognitive processes related to language
field of study:
Artificial intelligence Cognitive Science Brain sciencekeyword:
# Natural Language Processing # rhetorical expression #creativityNEWS
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