2021
| October 21 | Professor Kaoru Sekiyama gave an invited talk at the "New Elderly Society" Health Course in Osaka. "About lifestyles that maintain and improve the cognitive function of the senior generation ". |
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| September 16 | Professor Sekiyama Kaoru participated in the panel discussion "How the latest technology contributes to the promotion of SDGs and the happiness of people" at the Nikkei BP SDGs Festival Digital Sustainability Conference.
(Online delivery from Marunouchi Building Hall) Panel discussion |
| September | At the 85th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association, Professor Kaoru Sekiyama planned and moderated a small lecture for Mr. Xia Guo who Professor Kaoru Sekiyama instructed from Kumamoto University. "Musical instrument performance training and cognitive plasticity" (online) |
| June 20 | Professor Kaoru Sekiyama took the stage as chairman of the public symposium "Corona Sorrow and Mental Health / Education / Health Care" sponsored by the Science Council of Japan / Brain and Mind Subcommittee.(Online) External link |
| June 18 | Professor Kaoru Sekiyama gave an invited talk at the Music Symposium. "Two Story of Perception and Cognitive Research on Sound: From Audiovisual Speech Perception Research to Research on Brain Activation by Musical Instrument Training" (Online) |
| From May to August | A research paper on gaze measurement (accepted in March 2021), which investigated where Japanese infants look on the face of a face-to-face speaker, was introduced in the media. Asahi Shimbun, Science Japan |
| April 1st | Professor Kaoru Sekiyama has appointed the dean of the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University. |
| March 30 | A research paper on changes in brain structure due to exercise intervention in the elderly has been accepted by Cerebral Cortex. Motor intervention has been shown to improve general cognitive function, increase cortical volume in several parts of the prefrontal cortex, and reduce hippocampal age-related atrophy. (Joint research by the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability Kyoto University, Umeå University in Sweden, University of Tsukuba, Kokoro Research Center Kyoto University, etc.) |
| March 24 | Cortex has accepted a paper on developmental research by gaze measurement that examines where Japanese infants look on the face of a face-to-face speaker. This is a co-authored paper with Satoko Hisanaga , a graduate student from Kumamoto University, and Ayako Mugiya, an associate professor at Japan Women's University. |
| From January to February | The results of musical instrument intervention research for the elderly (accepted in November 2020, published in December) were introduced in the media.Asahi Shimbun､ Yahoo news､ Kyoto Shimbun |
2020
| June 5 | The Faculty Column on the GSAIS homepage published a message from Professor Sekiyama Kaoru and her recent photos. |
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| May | Shioyama Satsuki (4th year student in GSAIS)’s paper has been accepted for publication in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review. This is her master’s thesis research on work education in Indian secondary education. |
| February 14 | Co-chair in Science Council of Japan Academic Forum “Dementia: Academic Approaches to Prevention and Coexistence” (Tokyo). |
| January 1 | Sekiyama pubilshed a review paper outlining her own research on interlanguage differences (between native speakers of Japanese and English) in audiovisual speech perceptoin in the journal Acoustical Science and Technology. |
2019
| December 12 | Participants (a first half) of Yao Pianica Project presented their perfomance at Machinami center, Yao, Osaka. |
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| November 24 | Presentation of the results of our scientific research (Funded by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research "Lifestyle and Brain Function: Inquiry in Psychological Science into Successful Aging") at Kyoto University Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall. |
| November 9 | A panelist in Science Council of Japan public symposium “Sports and Brain Science”. |
| September 30 | Sekiyama and Suzuki published an article in Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science on methodological considerations in the study of aging. |
| September 14 | Sekiyama, Kotegawa, and other collaborators published an article in Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology on motor imagery ability of the elderly people. |
| September 12 | Organized a symposium on “Lifestyle and brain function” at the 83rd annual meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association, Ritsumeikan University – Osaka Ibaraki Campus |
| September 1 | Sekiyama, Teramoto, and other collaborators published a paper in Experimental Brain Research. This research found that reading difficulties caused by presbyopia is more significant in foreign language than in native language. |
| August 22 | Briefing session for research commissioned by Osaka Prefecture (Yao Citty Hall and Yaoshi Machinami Center). We tried to recruit participants to our “Yao Pianica Projcet” in which they practice playing a keyboard harmonica to attain rejuvenation of their brain. |
| February 10 | General lecture (in a symposium on Wisdom for happy living in middle and old ages) at Kyoto Learning Center, the Open University of Japan |
2018
| December 22 | Invited talk (title: Neuroprotection and physical/motor practice in healthy aging) at ISMRM-JPC annual meeting, Nagoya University |
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| November 6 | Dr. Maki Suzuki (Project-appointed Lecturer at Osaka University, our colleague for KAKENHI projects) published an article in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. This article reports enhanced over-activation of the brain with advanced aging. |
| September 27 | Organized a symposium on “Lifestyle and brain function” at the 82nd annual meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association, Sendai International Center |
| September 5 | Invited talk (title: Useful leisure activities for rejuvenation by 10 years) at Osaka Prefectural Ofiice |
| March 20 | Invited talk (title: lifestyle that extends healthy life expectancy) at Doshisha Neesima Kaikan |
| January 10 | Seminar (invited speaker: Professor Lars Nyberg, Departments of Radiation Sciences & Integrative Medical Biology in Umeå University) at Higashiichijokan
Title: "Challenges of Neuroscience in the era of global super-aging" Seehttps://www.gsais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/blog/2018/01/10/20180109-2 |
| January 6, 2018 | Xia Guo (2-year master course student at Kumamoto University) published an article in Frontiers in Psychology. This article reports the effect of short-term instrumental training on working memory in 6-8 year-old children. |
2017
| December 17 | Invited lecture (title: Perceptual adaptation to reversed vision: Beyond visual-motor learning) at multisensory workshop, Kusunokikaikan in Kumamoto University |
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| November 25 | Invited lecture (title: lifestyle that extends healthy life expectancy) at public symposium in the the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology, Hakozaki campus in Kyushu University |
| October 30 | Sekiyama, Kawagoe and other collaborators published an article in Scientific Report on the characteristics of eye scanning patterns on face memory among patients with mild cognitive impairment. |
| October 1 | Trial lecture (title: How to maintain the potential of your brain for a lifetime: Challenges from psychology and brain science), Kawaijuku Shinjuku-kou |
| September 30 | Poster presentation (title: Antiaging of brain and cognitive functions) on the introduction of Sekiyama Lab at Kyodai Academic Day, Clock Tower Centennial Hall in Kyoto University |
| September 22 | Regular symposium “Lifestyles for enhancing cognitive function in older adults: Latest intervention studies on dementia prevention.” at the 81th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Kurume City Plaza |
| May 10 | Sekiyama,Teramoto and other collaborators published an article in Experimental Brain Research on the strong multisensory integration in older adults. |
| May 1 | Sekiyama was appointed to a professorship of the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability at Kyoto University |
