Activities 2023

Here are activity records of seminars, reading clubs, and study sessions in 2020 academic year.
You can also check our past records in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and before 2018.

10th/Jan/2024（Wed.）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Paper Introduction: “Storytelling Is Intrinsically Mentalistic: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Narrative Production across Modalities”

    Speaker: FURUKAWA Takeru 

Paper Introduction: Innateness and Culture in the Evolution of Language

    Speaker: Iwamura Ibuki 

21th/Dec/2023（Thu.）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report: Comparison of Knowledge Construction Models; Findings and idea of implementation

    Speaker: Siri-on Umarin 

Progress Report: The evolution of spiteful behavior through disbandment mechanisms: Investigating the circumstances under which spite is more likely to evolve, whether in situations where the desire to terminate interactions is reflected or in situations where the desire to maintain interactions is reflected

    Speaker: Shun Kurokawa 

14th/Dec/2023（Wed）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report: Empirical research on narrative mediating between individuals and groups -Text mining analysis on narrative texts -

    Speaker: FURUKAWA Takeru 

Progress Report: Study on Contextual Understanding in Communication Based on Relevance Theory

    Speaker: Akira Minowa 

Progress Report: Co-creative communication between humans and machines through concept blending

    Speaker: Zhou Haote

6th/Dec/2023（Wed）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report: A Conceptual Framework for Simulation of Language Evolution Based on Iterated Learning Model with Conceptualization: Toward RP

    Speaker: Ibuki IWAMURA 

Progress Report: RP and research ideas for empirical research on narrative mediating between individuals and groups

    Speaker: FURUKAWA Takeru

30th/Nov/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report: "Introduction to Previous Research on Interpersonal Understanding in Communication Misalignment Situations and Proposal for an Analytical Study on Intention Sharing in Communication Based on This Context"

    Speaker: Akira Minowa 

Progress Report: The Impact of Conversational Generative AI on Human Moral Decision Making

    Speaker: Gou Endou

24th/Nov/2023（Fri.）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report: Conceptual Blending in human-machine Co-creative Interaction: the relationship between emergence and mismatches

    Speaker: Zhou Haote 

16th/Nov/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report: An Examination of Image Schemas of the Polysemous Verbs 'Agaru' and 'Shàng' in Japanese and Chinese

    Speaker: HUANG Wenlian 

Paper Introduction: “Best, Second-Best, and Good-Enough Explanations: How They Matter to Reasoning “

    Speaker: Akira Minowa

7th/Nov/2023（Tue）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Paper Introduction: “The narrative arc: Revealing core narrative structures through text analysis”

    Speaker: FURUKAWA Takeru 

Paper Introduction: A Survey on “impro” and “prototype”

    Speaker: CHENG, Taijun

2nd/Nov/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report: Recovering narrative congruence between individuals and society from alienation

    Speaker: QIN, Mujun 

Paper Introduction: Simplicity and Specificity in Language: Domain-General Biases Have Domain-Specific Effects

    Speaker: Iwamura Ibuki

27th/Oct/2023（Fri）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Paper Introduction: (How) Do You Regret Killing One to Save Five? Affective and Cognitive Regret Differ After Utilitarian and Deontological Decisions

    Speaker: Sasamori, Naomi 

Progress Report: Examination of The Experimental-Task for The Experimental Design.

    Speaker: Junki Kasano

19th/Oct/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Paper Introduction: A Survey on Adults Play and Playfulness in Adults

    Speaker: CHENG, Taijun 

Progress Report: Development of a social simulation model for EBPM focusing on the cognitive mechanisms of relationships with others

    Speaker: Kazuki Matsui

12th/Oct/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Paper Introduction: " Tit-for-Tat in Heterogeneous Populations "

    Speaker: Shun Kurokawa 

Progress Report: Paper review " Tit-for-Tat in Heterogeneous Populations "

    Speaker: Akira Minowa

5th/Oct/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Paper Introduction: A Literature Review on Cognitive Modes in Cognitive Linguistics and Perspective in Translation

    Speaker:  HUANG,Wenlian 

Progress Report: Co-creative communication between humans and machines through concept blending

    Speaker: Zhou Haote

28th/Sep/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Survey Report: Introduction of papers on experimental semiotics and Graphical Communication

    Speaker: Akira, Minowa

Survey Report: Introduction to Iterated Learning Model and its alternative models

    Speaker: Ibuki, Iwamura 

Survey Report: Survey report of narrative as thought/communication, and presentation of my research plan

    Speaker: FURUKAWA Takeru

21st/Sep/2023（Wed）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report:  Estimating the Effect of Self-Affirmation on Alienation: Discussion in preparation for this experiment

    Speaker: QIN, Mujun

Progress Report: Examination of The Experimental-Task for The Experimental Design.

 Speaker: Junki Kasano

14th/Sep/2023（Wed）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report:  Preliminary experiment on the effect of individual recursive combination　manipulations on collaborative activity, and results of a questionnaire to test improvisational making or not.

    Speaker: CHENG, Taijun

Progress Report: The evolution of spite through a disbandment mechanism

 Speaker: Shun Kurokawa

30th/Aug/2023（Wed）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report:  The Use of Regret Before Decision-making for Moral Inaction: Validation by Measuring Anticipatory Skin Conductance Responses During a Moral Dilemma Task

    Speaker: Sasamori, Naomi

Progress Report: Estimating the Effect of Self -Affirmation on Alienation: Consideration of Experimental Design

 Speaker:QIN, Mujun

Progress Report:  Discussion of research for poster presentation at the Japan Cognitive Science Society.

    Speaker: Junki Kasano

Progress Report: Comparing Image Schema Networks of  Polysemous Japanese and Chinese Verbs 'Agaru' and 'Shang'

 Speaker: HUANG, Wenlian

7th/Aug/2023（Mon）15:30- ｜ Webex

Research Introduction:  A Review of AI-Driven Conversational Chatbots Implementation Methodologies and Challenges

Bibliographic information:

    Speaker: Zhou Haote

13rd/Jul/2023（Wed）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 3 & Webex

Research Introduction:  Introduction to My Learning for Evolinguistics and Research on Emergence of Language

    Speaker: Ibuki Iwamura

Research Introduction: Visualization of Syllabus using Curriculum Map. Job Introduction. Research on Human Inference in Communication Using Generative AI.

 Speaker: Akira Minowa

Research Introduction:  ”Impact of visualization of congestion on people's behavior", and my master's research

    Speaker:  FURUKAWA Takeru

6th/Jul/2023（Wed）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 3 & Webex

Progress Report:  The Use of Regret Before Decision-making for Moral Inaction: Validation by Measuring Anticipatory Skin Conductance Responses During a Moral Dilemma Task

    Speaker: Sasamori, Naomi

Progress Report: Title: The Effect of Awareness of idiosyncrasy on Alienation

 Speaker: QIN, Mujun

Progress Report:  Organizing the experimental design and preparing the experimental tasks: effects of recursive conbination on the generation of various semantic interpretations (mental contents) of sentences in humans.

    Speaker: Junki Kasano

Progress Report: Comparing Image Schema Networks of Polysemous Japanese and Chinese Verbs 'Agaru' and 'Shang'

 Speaker: HUANG, Wenlian

29th/Jun/2023（Wed）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 3 & Webex

Progress Report:  Organizing the experimental design and preparing the experimental tasks: effects of recursive conbination on the generation of various semantic interpretations (mental contents) of sentences in humans.

    Speaker: Junki Kasano

Progress Report:  A Comparative Study of Polysemous Words "上・下" in Japanese and Chinese: From the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics - Poster Presentation Practice for JSLS - 

 Speaker: HUANG, Wenlian

22th/Jun/2023（Wed）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 3 & Webex

Paper Introduction: “Spite: altruism’s evil twin”

Bibliographic information:

    Speaker: Kurokawa, Shun

Progress Report: Co-creative communication between humans and machines through concept blending

 Speaker: Zhou Haote

14th/Jun/2023（Wed）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 3 & Webex

Paper Introduction:  Emotions associated with counterfactual comparisons drive decision-making in Footbridge-type moral dilemmas

Bibliographic information:

Tasso, A., Sarlo, M., & Lotto, L. (2017). Motivation and Emotion, 41(3), 410–418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-017-9607-9

    Speaker: Sasamori, Naomi

Progress Report: Development of a social simulation model for EBPM focusing on the cognitive mechanisms of relationships with others

 Speaker: Kazuki Matsui

1st/Jun/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Paper Introduction: Review of papers on the influence of objects containing LEGO on the co-creation process.

Bibliographic information:

1.    Siti Salwa Isa & Andre Liem. The impact of LEGO and analog objects in co-creating and prototyping ideas. International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 11(1): 1-25, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/21650349.2022.2125446

2.    Johanne Stege Bjørndahl, Riccardo Fusaroli , Svend Østergaard and Kristian Tylén. Thinking together with material representations: Joint epistemic actions in creative problem solving. Cognitive Semiotics, 7(1): 103-123, 2014 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290440023

3.    Riccardo Fusaroli, Nivedita Gangopadhyay, Kristian Tylén. The dialogically extended mind: Language as skilful intersubjective engagement. Cognitive Systems Research, 29-30: 31-39, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.06.002

    Speaker: CHENG, Taijun

Paper Introduction: Autobiographical recall of mastery experiences is a mechanism of self-affirming under social identity threat

Bibliographic information:

Tavitian-Elmadjian, L., Bender, M., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Chasiotis, A., & Harb, C. (2020), Autobiographical recall of mastery experiences is a mechanism of self-affirming under social identity threat, The Journal of social psychology, Vol. 160(1), pp. 39-60.

PDF: 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/00224545.2019.1606775?needAccess=true&role=button.

 Speaker: QIN, Mujun

25th/May/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report: An Examination of Phenomeneme Analysis of the Semantic Items of the Japanese-Chinese Polysemous Verbs "上がる(agaru)" and "上(shang)" 

    Speaker: HUANG,Wenlian

18th/May/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Paper Introduction:   AI can become a co-creative partner, contributing to the interaction between human divergent and convergent thinking.

Bibliographic information:

Simeone, L., Mantelli, R., and Adamo, A. (2022) 

Pushing divergence and promoting convergence in a speculative design process: Considerations on the role of AI as a co-creation partner, 

in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), 

DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June - 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. 

https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.197

    Speaker: Zhou Haote

Paper Introduction: Explanation for asymmetry between spiteful behavior and altruistic behavior by disbandment mechanism 

 Speaker: Shun Kurokawa

10th/May/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 3 & Webex

Progress Report: What can Manga communicate to people? - Experimental study on potential factor related to high communicability of "kakimoji" in Manga.

    Speaker: Maki Miyamoto

Progress Report: outline of "Visual Cue in Multimodal Language Processing through Experimental Consideration on Mass Quantifier "some""

 Speaker: LIAN, Qingxi

27th/Apr/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report: A summary and sharing of concepts relevant to my research

    Speaker: CHENG, Taijun

20th/Apr/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Paper Introduction: Paper review " Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation "

Bibliographic information:

Nowak, M. A., 2006. Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation. Science, 314, 1560-1563. (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1133755)

    Speaker: Shun Kurokawa

Progress Report: Introduction and Literature review parts of the thesis "Can Visual Context Modulate Humans' Interpretation of "some"?"

 Speaker: Qingxi Lian

7th/Apr/2023（Thu）15:30- ｜Collaboration Room 2 & Webex

Progress Report: The Use of Regret Before Decision-making for Moral Inaction: Validation by Measuring Anticipatory Skin Conductance Responses During A Moral Dilemma Task

    Speaker: Naomi Sasamori

Progress Report: The Effect of Awareness of idiosyncrasy on Alienation

 Speaker: QIN, Mujun

28th/Oct/2022-21st/Nov/2022

【Meeting of a reading circle】『生命科学の実験デザイン［第4版］』、G. D. ラクストン／N. コルグレイヴ 著、名古屋大学出版会、2019

Host：Mujun QIN

Participants：Junki Kasano, Naomi Sasamori, Taijun CHENG

Observer：Hiroki Yamamoto, Shun Kurokawa

25th/July/2022-10th/Nov/2022

【Meeting of a reading circle】『データ解析のための統計モデリング入門』、久保拓弥、岩波書店、2012

Host：Kazuyuki Otomo

Participants：Masayuki Fujiwara, Junki Kasano, Naomi Sasamori, Hiroki Yamamoto, Takashi Hashimoto, Misato Hoshizumi, Lian Quanxi

Observer：Shun Kurokawa

1st/September/2020- 12th/December/2020

【Meeting of a reading circle】『大学生・社会人のための言語技術トレーニング』，三森ゆりか，大修館書店，2013

Host: Misato HOSHIZUMI

Participants: Prof. HASHIMOTO, Zhou Haote, QIN Shubin, LIAN Qingxi, Geniki KAKIHANA, Soichiro SAITO, Yutaro HORIKAWA (KIT),
Hiromi YAMAGUCHI (Yawata Medical)

Observer: Moe HOSOMA

19th/May/2020-7th/July/2020

【Meeting of a reading circle】『論文を書くための科学の手順』，山田俊弘，文一総合出版，2018

Host：Zhou Haote

Participants： Prof. Hashimoto, Moe HOSOMA, LIAN Qingxi, Geniki KAKIHANA, Misato HOSHIZUM, Ryosuke SAKAGUCHI (SHIRAHADA Lab),
Yutaro HORIKAWA (KIT), Hiromi YAMAGUCHI (Yawata MEdical), Masaomi HATAKEYAMA (University of Zurich )

Observer:  QIN Shubin,  Syogo HAMADA