Research theme for competitive and other funds (4):
2023 - 2025 幼児期・学童期の子どもの社会的文脈における好奇心の発達の検討
2022 - 2023 幼児期からの好奇心の発達にかんする研究
2023 - Developing a toolkit for assessing teaching quality and student outcomes in developing countries
2019 - Influence of music activities for 6-7 year-old Malawi children on executive functions
Papers (9):
Shoko Iwasaki, Yusuke Moriguchi, Kaoru Sekiyama. Balancing exploration and exploitation? The impact of cost and inhibitory control on information gathering in early childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 2024. 42. 4. 583-595
Shoko Iwasaki, Masatoshi Yamashita, Reina Takamatsu, Aya Toyoshima, Shu Nishiguchi, Minoru Yamada, and Kaoru Sekiyama. Converting MoCA-J to MMSE-J in community-dwelling Japanese older adults: A pilot study (accepted). Psychologia. 2024
Marcelo Kakihara, Xueyan Wang, Shoko Iwasaki, Takahiro Soshi, Masatoshi Yamashita, Kaoru Sekiyama. The association between performance skills and cognitive improvement in a 10-week musical instrument training programme for older adults (in press). Psychology of Music. 2024
Xueyan Wang, Takahiro Soshi, Masatoshi Yamashita, Marcelo Kakihara, Takanobu Tsutsumi, Shoko Iwasaki, Kaoru Sekiyama. Effects of a 10-week musical instrument training on cognitive function in healthy older adults: implications for desirable tests and period of training. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 2023. 15
Shoko Iwasaki, Yusuke Moriguchi, Kaoru Sekiyama. Parental responsiveness and children’s trait epistemic curiosity. Frontiers in Psychology. 2023. 13
Epistemic curiosity and Children's Health-Related Behaviours among Japanese Adolescents
(2023 APS College of Educational & Developmental Psychologists Conference, Melbourne (Virtual On-demand) 2023)
How does society support children’s curiosity development?
(11th international symposium 2022)