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About the LBC Research Center
About the LBC Research Center
At the Research Center for Language, Brain, and Cognition at Tohoku University, we aim to transcend the division of the humanities and natural sciences by uncovering deeper knowledge about language and cognition in the human brain.
To achieve this goal, our researchers who specialize in various fields such as linguistics, psychology, medicine, and information science come together to conduct research using cutting-edge technology, such as fMRI.
Originally conceptualized in 2002, the LBC Research Center grew and evolved during the five-year 21st century Center of Excellence Program in Humanities at Tohoku University. Our interdisciplinary center as you see today was established in April 2007.
The LBC Research Center is led by linguists at the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies in collaboration with researchers at the Graduate School of Information Science, the Institute of Development, Aging, and Cancer, and the Graduate School of Arts and Letters. (To learn more about our Language Sciences program offered in English at the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, click here.)
To ensure our research is widely available, we regularly hold colloquiums where our researchers present their results to the public. We also host talks and workshops by researchers conducting pioneering research in related fields in other parts of Japan and all over the world. (To learn more about our upcoming events, click here.)
東北大学 言語脳認知総合科学研究センターは、人文学と自然科学の垣根を越え、ヒトの脳内の言語と認知をより深く理解することを目指しています。
この目的を達成するために、言語学、心理学、医学、情報科学などの多様な分野の研究者が共同し、fMRIなどの先端技術を用いた研究を行っています。
当センターは、2002年に開始した21世紀COEプログラム「言語・認知総合科学戦略研究教育拠点」を土台にして、2007年に学際研究センターとして設立されました。
国際文化研究科に所属する言語科学諸分野を専門とするスタッフが、文学研究科、加齢医学研究所、情報科学研究科の研究者と共同で研究を展開しています。（国際文化研究科の英語を使用言語とする言語科学教育プログラムについては、ここをクリックしてください。）
研究成果を広く社会に還元するために、所属研究者による講演会を定期的に開催し、国内外の一線級の研究者を招いて講演会やワークショップも企画しています。（イベントの情報は、ここから見ることができます。）
News & Upcoming Events
News & Upcoming Events
2026.3.7-8 J-SLARF Symposium
2026.3.7-8 J-SLARF Symposium
Title: J-SLARF SYMPOSIUM @ Tohoku University
March 7, Saturday, 13:00 - 18:00
March 8, Sunday, 10:00 - 17:00
1F Int’l Conference Room, Center for Smart Aging Research, Seiryo Campus
2025.11.11 Colloquium talk by Dr. Yuichi Suzuki
2025.11.11 Colloquium talk by Dr. Yuichi Suzuki
Title: From the Classroom, For the Classroom: A New Agenda for ISLA Research
November 11, Tuesday, 14:40-16:10
6th Floor Hall, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2025.10.3 Colloquium talk by Dr. Penny Pexman
2025.10.3 Colloquium talk by Dr. Penny Pexman
Title: Multidimensional Semantics for Concrete and Abstract Concepts
October 3rd, Friday, 15:30-17:00
6th Floor Hall, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2025.9.9 Colloquium talk by 峯松信明 博士
2025.9.9 Colloquium talk by 峯松信明 博士
Title: ⼤学院EMI時代を控えた東⼤⼯学部のAI・⾳声技術を活⽤した英語⾳声教育
〜⽿，⼝，頭を鍛え，最後は⾝体を通して⾏う⾳声学習〜
（EMI = English as a Medium of Instruction）
2025年 9月9日 (火) 16:30-18:00
東北⼤学 川内キャンパス 講義棟C棟 301教室
2025.7.8 Colloquium talk by Dr. John Bundschuh
2025.7.8 Colloquium talk by Dr. John Bundschuh
Title: Grammar and Rhetoric in Late Old Japanese Translations of Literary Sinitic Buddhist Narratives
July 8th, Tuesday, 16:20-17:50
6th Floor Hall, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2025.6.10 Colloquium talk by Dr. Andrew Lee
2025.6.10 Colloquium talk by Dr. Andrew Lee
Title: Why second language pronunciation instruction matters: Insights from researcher-practitioner collaboration
June 10th, Tuesday, 16:20-17:50
Room 302, West wing, Building of Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2025.5.27 Colloquium talk by Dr. Uri Tadmor
2025.5.27 Colloquium talk by Dr. Uri Tadmor
Title: Academic Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
May 27th, Tuesday, 16:00-17:00
6th floor, Multimedia Research Hall, International Cultural Studies Building, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2025.5.22 Colloquium talk by Dr. Ana Pellicer-Sánchez
2025.5.22 Colloquium talk by Dr. Ana Pellicer-Sánchez
Title: Incidental vocabulary learning in a second language: Insights from eye-tracking research
May 22nd, Thursday, 14:40-16:10
6th Floor Hall, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2025.2.5 Colloquium talk by Dr. Rod Ellis
2025.2.5 Colloquium talk by Dr. Rod Ellis
Title: A short history of SLA: Where have we come from and where are we going?
February, 5th, 2025, Wednesday
16:00-17:30
6th Floor Hall, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2025.1.30 Colloquium talk by Dr. Aki Tsunemoto
2025.1.30 Colloquium talk by Dr. Aki Tsunemoto
Title: Second Language Speech Assessments: Key Variables, Self-Assessment, and Future Directions
January, 30, 2025, Thrusday
14:20-15:50
Room M204, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2024.9.24 Colloquium talk by Dr. Idan Landau
2024.9.24 Colloquium talk by Dr. Idan Landau
Title: Argument ellipsis: findings and puzzles
September 24, 2024, Tuesday
15:00-16:30
Room W302, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2024.8.19 Colloquium talk by Dr. Akira Murakami
2024.8.19 Colloquium talk by Dr. Akira Murakami
Title: Systematicity and individuality in the L2 development and use of English grammatical morphemes: Insights from large-scale learner corpora
August 19, 2024, Monday
14:40-16:10
Room M203, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2024.6.20 Colloquium talk by Dr. Michel Burri
2024.6.20 Colloquium talk by Dr. Michel Burri
Title: Language Lost and Retrieved: Exploring Language Acquisition through a Transdisciplinary Lens
June 20, 2024, Thursday
14:40-16:10
Room M203, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2024.6.4 Colloquium talk by Dr. Jim McKinley
2024.6.4 Colloquium talk by Dr. Jim McKinley
Title: ELT and EMI: How does research inform practices?
June 4th, 2024, Tuesday
10:30-12:00
Room M204, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2024.5.30 Colloquium talk by Dr. Kevin McManus
2024.5.30 Colloquium talk by Dr. Kevin McManus
Title: Examining key claims about usage-based second language acquisition through replication
April 30, 2024, Thursday
14:40-16:10
Room M203, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2024.4.25 Colloquium talk by Dr. Francesca M. M. Citron
2024.4.25 Colloquium talk by Dr. Francesca M. M. Citron
Title: What makes figurative language more emotionally evocatove? Insights from neuroimaging
April 25, 2024, Thursday
14:40-16:10
Room M203, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2023.11.22 Special Lecture by Dr. Ayaka Sugawara
2023.11.22 Special Lecture by Dr. Ayaka Sugawara
Title: Exploring prosodic and contextual influences on scope ambiguity in children and second language learners
Nov 22, 2023, Wednesday
16:20-17:30
Room M204, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2023.11.07 Special Lecture by Dr. Masahiro Yoshihara
2023.11.07 Special Lecture by Dr. Masahiro Yoshihara
Title: Lexical access in Chinese-Japanese bilinguals: An investigation using psychological experiments
Nov 07, 2023, Tuesday
16:20-17:50
Room M201, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2023.11.02 Special Lecture by 葉 秉杰 博士
2023.11.02 Special Lecture by 葉 秉杰 博士
Title: [[X]動詞連用形] 複合語に見るコンストラクション性と百科事典的知識との関連性
Nov 02, 2023, Thursday
16:30-18:00
Room M204, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2023.10.21 TOHOKU-UCL SLA JOINT Colloquium
2023.10.21 TOHOKU-UCL SLA JOINT Colloquium
Title: TOHOKU-UCL SLA Joint Colloquium
Date: 2023.10.21 (Saturday)
Time: 15:30~19:35 (Japan Time)
: 7:30~11:35 (UK Time)
Delivery: Zoom [Online]
Program table and abstracts
https://sites.google.com/view/takumiuchihara/event-at-tohoku
Registration
https://forms.gle/7RUvVTXKeLcZoRuCA
2023.10.10 Special Lecture by Dr. Eva Puimège
2023.10.10 Special Lecture by Dr. Eva Puimège
Title: Learning Formulaic Language from Meaning-Focused Activities: Insights from Eye-tracking Research
Oct 10, 2023, Tuesday
16:20-17:50
Room M201, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2023.08.04 Colloquium talk by Keita Ishii
2023.08.04 Colloquium talk by Keita Ishii
Title: Embedded Utterance Honorifics in Japanese as an Honorific Concord Phenomenon
August 4, 2023 Friday
16:30-18:00
Conference Room, the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2023.08.02 Colloquium talk by Prof. Keith Tong
2023.08.02 Colloquium talk by Prof. Keith Tong
Title: My Friend ChatGPT: Developing Judicious, Accountable, Responsible Users of Generative AI Models
August 2, 2023 Wednesday
17:00-18:30
Room M204, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2023.05.30 Special Lecture by Dr. Yui Suzukida
2023.05.30 Special Lecture by Dr. Yui Suzukida
Title: Understanding Second Language Learners: The Roles of Cognitive and Sociopsychological Individual Differences in Speech Learning
May 30, 2023 Tuesday
18:00-19:30
Room M204, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
2023.04.24 特別講演 陳燕青 博士
2023.04.24 特別講演 陳燕青 博士
2023.04.03 Special Lecture by Dr. Ping Li
2023.04.03 Special Lecture by Dr. Ping Li
Title: Using Digital Language Learning (DLL): Technology, Data, and the Brain
Monday, April 3, 2023
16:00-17:30 Japan Standard Time
Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus, Tohoku University
2023.03.09 Special Lecture by Dr. Andrea Révész
2023.03.09 Special Lecture by Dr. Andrea Révész
Title: Using eye-tracking as a research and pedagogical tool: Insights from research on focus on form
Thursday, March 9, 2023
18:00-19:30 Japan Standard Time
Multimedia Research Center, 6F Hall
2023.02.18 Special Lecture by Dr. Derek Ho Leung Chan
2023.02.18 Special Lecture by Dr. Derek Ho Leung Chan
Title: The Roles of L1 and Lexical Aspect in L2 Tense-aspect Acquisition
Saturday, February 18, 2023
15:00-16:30 Japan Standard Time
Zoom Live
2023.02.14 Special Lecture by Dr. Timothy J. Vance
2023.02.14 Special Lecture by Dr. Timothy J. Vance
Title: Lyman’s Law and /p/: An Experimental Study
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
16:00-17:30 Japan Standard Time
Multimedia Research Center, 6F Hall (Online participation is also welcome)
2023.01.31 Special Lecture by Dr. Takumi Uchihara
2023.01.31 Special Lecture by Dr. Takumi Uchihara
Title: Defining and testing spoken vocabulary knowledge in second language
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
15:00-16:30 Japan Standard Time
Room M201, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, Kawauchi Kita Campus
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