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| Our research focuses specifically on the learning
process. Using electrophysiological experiments and computational
simulations, we are investigating to identify what role brain
rhythm plays in information processing. As theta rhythms are
thought to be intimately related to memory and learning, we
have been measuring the successive changes in power of the
rhythms of subjects as they learned the second language in
order to study the relationship between theta rhythm and the
learning process. By clarifying the relationship between brain
rhythms and the information processing in brain, we hope to
expand our research to develop brain-computer interface. |
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provide students with opportunities to experience the
various brain rhythms firsthand through electrophysiological
experiments using brain slices. Students remove a slice
of hippocampus from the brain of a rat or a guinea pig,
insert electrodes and measure brain rhythms. Many people
assume that brain activity is merely a response to some
form of stimuli. In our view, however, the brain also
works autonomously even without stimuli and this information
processing aspect is expressed as rhythms. We wish to
give students from all engineering fields the chance
to see with their own eyes how autonomous brain rhythms
occur in neural networks within the brain. |
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