Hashimoto Labratory

School of Knowledge Science

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

Study on Language, Communication, and Institutions from the perspectives of Complex System and Evolution.

Ibuki IWAMURA (D1) gave an oral presentation at Protolang 9 (2025/9/15-17, University of Vienna) entitled 'Under What Conditions Does Syntactic Alternation Culturally Emerge? (Ibuki IWAMURA and Takashi HASHIMOTO)'. [2025/9/30]

Shinichi Honna (M1) gave a poster presentation entitled "International Comparison of Generative AI Acceptance in YouTube Comments (Shinichi Honna (JAIST), Tsukasa Tanihara (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Taichi Murayama (Yokohama National Univ.))" at the 20th Symposium of Young Adults in Language Processing (YANS2025) (2025/9/17-19, Act City Hamamatsu). The poster presentation was awarded the Encouragement Award. Congratulations. [2025/9/19]

Prof Takashi Hashimoto chaired the symposium 'Institutions, Innovations and Economic Growth' at the Autumn Conference of Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics (2025/9/13, Shimonoseki City University). [2025/9/19]

Junki Kasano (D1) and Yoshiyuki Matsuzaki (M2) gave poster presentations at The 42nd Annual Meeting of Japanese Cognitive Science Society (2025/9/12-14, Waseda University, Waseda Campus). [2025/9/19]
"The effect of recursive binding on the diversification of mental inferences" (Junki Kasano, Takashi Hashimoto)
"An exploratory demonstration of inference forms focusing on the generation and selection process of interpretation for inferences" (Yoshiyuki Matsuzaki, Takashi Hashimoto)

Qin Mujun (D1) and Junki Kasano (D1) presented their research at the 13th Workshop of the Association of Youth Reseachers in Cognitive Science (2025/9/11, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo). [2025/9/19]
"Positive meaning making through mutual acceptance of alienation" by Qin Mujun (Lightning Talk)
"Does manipulation of hierarchical structure diversify inference of others' mental content: analysis plan of text mining using AI tools" by Junki Kasano (poster presentation)

Sakika Kawai and Yuka Okayama, third-year students at the Faculty of Informatics, Yamato University, came to the Hashimoto Lab as interns from 28 Aug to 4 Sep. [2025/9/5]

Junki Kasano (D1), Ibuki Iwamura (D1) and Shinichi Honna (M1) were selected for the Nippon Foundation HUMAI Programme (Incentive A) and gave poster presentations at the HUMAI Summer Session 2025 (2025/9/7-8, International Resort Hotel Yurakujo). [2025/9/9]
"Does the manipulation of hierarchical structure diversify the inference of others' mental content: an analytical plan for text mining using AI tools" (Junki Kasano)
"Language evolution and inverse Bayes" (Ibuki Iwamura)
"The impact of narrative structure on the diffusion in scientific papers" (Shinichi Honna)

From 18-22 Aug 2025, Professor Hashimoto worked as a lecturer at the CHAIN Summer School, which is held every summer at the Hokkaido University Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience. The title of the summer school was "Constructivism of Life and Language Evolution", and Professor Hashimoto's lecture titles were 1. "Constructivism of Language Evolution: approaching human nature from the construct of evolution and emergence" and 2. "Co-creation Language Evolution: integration of recursion and shared intention". [2025/8/30]

D1 student Yasuhiko Nakamura published a journal article in Operations Research Letters. The title is 'Resource mobility and market performance: Kantian optimization'. [2025/8/29]

We held the summer camp on 7-8 Aug (jointly with the Fujiwara Lab of Komatsu Univ.) This time we rented an old house in Yatsuo and had a lot of fun with the 'ambitions' of the new members. [2025/8/18]

On 30 July, Professor Hashimoto gave a lecture at the GoodMoneyLab workshop (online) entitled 'Three forces that create the world - money, language and knowledge'. [2025/7/30]

Five M1 students who entered in April, Sinto Izaki, Sota Ednai, Zhu Liya, Deng Na and Shinichi Honna, have been assigned to our Laboratory. [2025/6/25]

On 22 June, we held a homemade pizza party to celebrate Kazuki Matsui achieving his PhD degree. [2025/6/25]

Ibuki Iwamura introduced a paper at the ICET Seminar Workshop 2025 (2025/05/17-18). [2025/6/2]

On 11 May, there was a doctoral thesis defense as well as a public hearing, at which Kazuki Matsui (D3) presented his doctoral thesis, "Construction of a social simulation model and analysis method for EBPM focusing on cognitive mechanisms regarding relationships with others." [2025/5/14]

On 19 April, we held a Welcoming Barbecue Party. A total of 50 people enjoyed the party, including applicants and friends of Hashimoto Lab members. This time, the party was held jointly with the Fujiwara Lab of Komatsu University and their colleagues. [2025/4/25]

On 17 April, we took a cherry blossom viewing stroll in the park behind the Ishikawa High-Tech Exchange Center. [2025/4/18]

Welcome new students Risa Teshigahara in the doctoral programme at the Ishikawa Campus and Yasuhiko Nakamura in the doctoral programme of the Tokyo Satellite. Congratulations, Junki Kasano and Ibuki Iwamura moved into the doctoral programme at the Ishikawa Campus. [2025/4/12]

Professor Takashi Hashimoto has been appointed to the Cognitive Studies editorial board, published by the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. D1 student Qin Mujun has been appointed vice-president of the JCSS Youth Seminar. [2025/4/12]

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