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Sakai Hiromu

サカイヒロム | Sakai Hiromu

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor

Research field (2)： Linguistics , Science education

Research theme for competitive and other funds (52)：

2026 - 2028 人間の記号処理能力の基盤を探る-言語の形式と意味をつなぐ認知神経システムの解明
2023 - 2028 Explorations into the Neurocognitive Basis of Symbolic Processing: Focusing on the Mediation System between Form and Meaning of Human Language
2024 - 2027 Neural Basis of the Self-Oriented Function of Co-Speech Gestures
2023 - 2027 Linguistic Relativity in Acquisition and Processing of Number Concepts: A View from Classifier Languages
2023 - 2026 脳磁図と頭蓋内脳波の時間分解MVP解析による言語の形式と意味を繋ぐシステムの解明

2020 - 2025 Compensatory contribution of linguistic and social factors for early language acquisition: Cross linguistic study between European and Asian languages

2020 - 2024 人工言語を用いた項省略の研究

2019 - 2024 Field-based Cognitive Neuroscientific Study of Word Order in Language and Order of Thinking from the OS Language Perspective

2019 - 2021 hierarchical structure building in drawing by humans, chimpanzees and monkeys

2017 - 2021 Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge of JSL children and its relation to academic and inference skills: From the Perspective of Cognitive Science

2016 - 2021 Seeking the onset of infant speech development: An explanation of developmental mechanisms form the perspective of Asian languages

2016 - 2021 Why linguistic symbols should and should not be arbitrary: An integrative account from language evolution, acquisition, and brain functions.

2018 - 2021 なぜ言語には文法が必要なのか-脳磁図を用いた予測処理における神経律動の分析

2019 - 2020 OS言語からみた「言語の語順」と「思考の順序」に関するフィールド言語心理学的研究

2015 - 2020 脳はどのように文法を生み出すのか-東アジア言語比較認知神経科学からの探求-

2016 - 2019 語用論的推論に関する比較認知神経科学的研究

2015 - 2019 A field-based psycholinguistic study of the discourse processing mechanisms of OS languages

2015 - 2018 Relationship between Silent and Filled Pauses and Syntactic Structure in Second Language Use

2013 - 2018 事象関連電位を用いた日本語文理解研究の基盤構築

2016 - 2017 乳児の音素獲得のメカニズムに迫る:アジアの4言語の対照研究

2014 - 2017 Order in Thought and Language

2012 - 2016 What makes incremental processing possible in Japanese: predictive, integrative, selective use of various sources of information

2011 - 2016 Development of self regulation mechanism in metacognition and social behavior

2011 - 2016 Adolescent Mind & Self-Regulation, steering committee

2010 - 2015 A field-based cognitive neuroscientific study of the processing of OS-type languages

2011 - 2014 Can super-advanced Japanese learners process a Japanese sentence like native Japanese speakers? - Investigation by behavioral and brain-science experiments

2010 - 2014 Sound symbolism bootstraps infants into referential insight

2011 - 2014 言語の多様性と認知神経システムの可変性-東アジア言語の比較を通した解明-

2010 - 2010 OS型言語の文処理メカニズムに関するフィールド言語心理学的研究

2008 - 2010 A comparative study on the acquisition of collocational expressions by native Chinese and Korean speakers learning Japanese

2008 - 2010 インプット・アウトプットの処理を通した言語学習の認知神経メカニズム

2008 - 2009 文産出時の統語構造構築に関わる脳機能の解明

2007 - 2009 A comprehensive study of event expressions in terms of the comparison between Chinese and Japanese

2007 - 2009 A cognitive-neuroscientific study of the contextual effects on the comprehension of scrambled sentences

2006 - 2007 Acquisition of Japanese Noun Phrase Order by Native Chinese, Korean and Turkish Speakers Learning the Japanese Language

2006 - 2007 統語的・語彙的プライミングを用いた再帰的計算能力を支える皮質構造の解明

2005 - 2007 話し言葉の理解における複合語処理の認知神経機構の解明

2004 - 2006 A Cognitive Neuroscientific Study of Argument Structure, Syntactic Structure and Canonical Word Order

2004 - 2005 Acquisition of Japanese Word Order by Native Chinese, Korean and Turkish Speakers Learning the Japanese Language

2005 - 統語的プライミングを手がかりとした再帰的計算能力を支える皮質構造の解明

2002 - 2004 Development of VOD Contents and Networking Learning Support System for Teaching Japanese as a Second Language

2002 - 2004 動詞形態の認知処理過程を手がかりとした言語機構の構造の解明

2003 - 言語の認知神経科学

2003 - Cognitive Neuroscience of Langauge

2000 - 2001 日本語の類型論的特徴が文の認知処理過程に及ぼす影響に関する研究

2000 - 2000 言語学・心理学・教育学に基づく日本語CALLコースウェアの研究

日本語心理言語学

日本語と東アジア諸語の文法の比較

生成文法理論に基いた日本語・英語の対照研究

Japanese Psycholinguistics

Comparative Syntax of East - Asian Languages

A Contrastive study of Japanese and English based on Generative Grammar

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Papers (94)：

Dmitry Patashov, Li Liu, Jion Tominaga, Kai Nakajima, Hiroki Miyanaga, Shoji Tsunematsu, Takanori Kato, Keita Tanaka, Hiromu Sakai. MEG Neural Decoding Pipeline: The Issues Residing Within The Data and Methods to Improve Your Decoding Accuracy. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 2026
Yuqi Hao, Hiromu Sakai, Xiuling Liu, Ming Yan. Exploring the Perceptual Span of Japanese Among Second Language Learners. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 2026. 40. 2
Keita Tanaka, Reo Yamada, Manami Kanamaru, Chie Obuchi, Hidehiko Okamoto, Takanori Kato, Hiromu Sakai. Dynamic Interaction Between Structural Asymmetry and Attention in the Right-Ear Advantage Revealed by MEG-Based ASSRs. Brain Sciences. 2026. 16. 3. 286-286
Manami Sato, Yingyi Luo, Amy J Schafer, Apay Ai-Yu Tang, Hajime Ono, Hiromu Sakai, Masatoshi Koizumi. Speakers of verb-initial languages and verb-medial languages interpret the world differently: A comparative study of Truku Seediq and English. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition. 2025
Zhao Zhao Akiko, Hiromu Sakai, Yingyi Luo. “Simpler is better”: Japanese children’s learning of case-markers in transitive sentences. Language Learning and Development. 2025. 1-23

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MISC (66)：

金英周, 五十嵐陽介, 宇都木昭, 酒井弘. 韓国語慶尚道方言における属格主語構造. 日本言語学会第151回大会予稿集. 2015. 110-115
Processing of Sino-Japanese derived words in Japanese : Focusing on the effects of initial character and base identity. 2015. 115. 176. 49-53
Linguistic information usage of Japanese children in case markers learning : Through the sentence comprehension experiment using artificial case markers. 2015. 115. 176. 37-41
Hiromu Sakai, Shengyan Long, Yingyi Luo, Manami Sato. Computation for syntactic dependency at language-culture interface: A view from Japanese honorific processing. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY. 2014. 94. 2. 179-179
Yingyi Luo, Changhao Jiang, Shengyan Long, Hiromu Sakai. ERP responses to code-switching in cognate/non-cognate word recognition by Chinese-Japanese bilinguals. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY. 2014. 94. 2. 206-206

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Books (16)：

ここからはじめる言語学プラス統計分析
共立出版 2016
思春期学
東京大学出版会 2015
認知心理学事典
有斐閣 2013
日本語学
日本語学,第29巻第2号 2010
心のなかの言葉-心内辞書への招待-
培風館 2010

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Lectures and oral presentations (81)：

Dissociating and localizing prediction in language comprehension: An MEG study on Japanese classifier-noun processing
(The 12th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2020)
Neural correlates of inferential reasoning in evidentiality and modality: An ERP study
(Exploring Interface #1: Grammatical Theory and Neurolinguistics 2019)
Emergence of grammar in the human brain: An insight from EEG studies on Japanese classifier-noun combinations
(2019)
A neurolinguistic investigation into semantic differences of evidentiality and modality
(Sinn und Bedeutung 24 Special Session on neurolinguistics approaches to semantics and pragmatics 2019)
Prediction of orthographic information during listening comprehension,
(Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP) and The Attentive Listener in the Visual World (AttLis) 2019 2019)

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Education (3)：

1990 - 1995 University of California Irvine Graduate School of Social Sciences Department of Linguistics
1984 - 1993 京都大学大学院文学研究科言語学専攻
1980 - 1984 Kyoto University Faculty of Letters

Professional career (2)：

文学修士 (京都大学)
Ph. D. (University of California, Irvine)

Work history (8)：

2015 - 現在 Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering
2010 - 2015 Hiroshima University Graduate School of Education
2008 - 2010 Hiroshima University Graduate School of Education
2001 - 2008 - 広島大学大学院教育学研究科助教授
1995 - 2001 Hiroshima University School of Education

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Committee career (15)：

2021/04 - 現在 The Linguistics Society of Japan Award Committee, Chair
2020/09 - 現在 Frontiers in Psychology Editorial Board of Language Sciences, Review Editor
2007/04 - 現在日本英語学会日本英語学会評議員
2003/04 - 現在日本言語学会日本言語学会評議員
2013/08 - 2015/07 日本学術振興会日本学術振興会特別研究員等審査会専門委員及び国際事業委員会書面審査委員

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Association Membership(s) (6)：

THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN , 日本語文法学会 , THE JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION , THE SOCIETY FOR TEACHING JAPANESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE , JAPANESE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY , THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN

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