Research keywords (3):
Second Language Acquisition
, Early English Education
, Neuroscience of Language
Research theme for competitive and other funds (5):
2019 - 2024 Cognitive brain science of early foreign-language learning
2018 - 2020 A biolinguistic approach to multicompetence
2016 - 2020 Integrative studies on the development of native Japanese speakers' speaking skills in English from elementary school years onward
2015 - 2020 How does grammar emerge in the human brain?: An insight from the East Asian comparative cognitive neuroscience of language
2011 - 2017 Behavioral and neural changes induced by the learning of a miniature artificial language
Papers (19):
Aya S Ihara, Atsushi Matsumoto, Shiro Ojima, Jun'ichi Katayama, Keita Nakamura, Yusuke Yokota, Hiroki Watanabe, Yasushi Naruse. Prediction of Second Language Proficiency Based on Electroencephalographic Signals Measured While Listening to Natural Speech. Frontiers in human neuroscience. 2021. 15. 665809-665809
Shiro Ojima, Kazuo Okanoya. Children's Learning of a Semantics-Free Artificial Grammar with Center Embedding. BIOLINGUISTICS. 2020. 14. 21-48
OJIMA Shiro. Common Neural Processes Underlying Language and Mathematics. Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies. 2015. 46. 125-44