NEWS
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- A paper by Niikawa (Phenomenology Group)et al. was published in The Philosophical Quarterly.
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- We held the 3rd Area Meeting.
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- We hosted a theme session, titled "Cognition/Brain and NLP," at NLP2025. Info
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- Nishida (Brain Group), Watahiki, Doi, Shinozaki, Yanaka, (NLP Group), Niikawa, and Miyahara (Phenomenology Group) gave presentations at NLP2025.
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- We co-sponsored the Mechanism of Brain and Mind the 24th Winter Workshop.
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- We hosted Kobe Philosophy Seminar Series(10):「現代哲学の最前線」.
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- A paper by Kobayashi (Brain Group) et al. was accepted by Journal of the Optical Society of America A.
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- Kobayashi (Brain Group) recieved the Excelent Research Award for his presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychonomic Society on Dec 2024.
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- A paper by Kobayashi (Brain Group) et al. was accepted by Journal of Illusion.
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- Kobayashi (Brain Group) gave a presentation at The 7th Inuyama-tribute Cognition & Behavior Meeting.
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- We co-sponsored JNNS Autumn School ASCONE2024 "Brain, Understanding, and Computation".
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- Miyahara, Niikawa (Phenomenology Group), and Nishida (Brain Group) gave a presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Phenomenology Association of Japan.
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- Okada, Nishida (Brain Group), and Niikawa (Phenomenology Group) gave a presentation at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology.
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- Yanaka (NLP Gorup) was selected as one of the "Woman in Tech TOP30 2024: 30 Women Changing the World in the Technology Field" in the Nov 2024 issue of Forbes Japan.
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- Nakata, Niikawa (Phenomenology Group), Doi, Katsunuma, and Yanaka (NLP Group), Wang, Okada, and Nishida (Brain Group) gave a presentation at workshop “Brain, Language, and Consciousness”.
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- We held the 2nd area meeting on Sep 23 and workshop “Brain, Language, and Consciousness” on Sep 24-25. Workshop Info
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- Doi, Katsunuma, and Yanaka (NLP Group) gave a presentation at the 19th YANS Symposium.
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- A review paper by Doi and Yanaka (NLP Group) was published on the JSAI official journal "Jinko-Chino."
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- We hosted the Kobe Philosophy Seminar Series (4): Metaphysics of Consciousness.
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- A paper by Doi, Isonuma, and Yanaka (NLP Group) was accepted by ACL2024 Student Research Workshop.
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- Nishida (Brain Group) gave a presentation at the ASSC Satellite Symposium “Aware and Alive.”
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- We hosted the Kobe Philosophy Seminar Series (3): AI Consciousness.
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- Niikawa (Phenomenology Group) received the Excellent Young Researcher Award from Kobe University.
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- We held the 1st area meeting (kick-off meeting).
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- Yanaka (NLP Group) received the MEXT Young Scientists' Prize.
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- We have started the activities of our area.
- News
- A paper by Niikawa (Phenomenology Group)et al. was published in The Philosophical Quarterly.
- News
- Nishida (Brain Group), Watahiki, Doi, Shinozaki, Yanaka, (NLP Group), Niikawa, and Miyahara (Phenomenology Group) gave presentations at NLP2025.
- News
- A paper by Kobayashi (Brain Group) et al.(was accepted by Journal of the Optical Society of America A.
- News
- Kobayashi (Brain Group) recieved the Excelent Research Award for his presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychonomic Society on Dec 2024.
- News
- A paper by Kobayashi (Brain Group) et al.. was accepted by Journal of Illusion.
- News
- Kobayashi (Brain Group) gave a presentation at The 7th Inuyama-tribute Cognition & Behavior Meeting.
- News
- Miyahara, Niikawa (Phenomenology Group), and Nishida (Brain Group) gave a presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Phenomenology Association of Japan.
- News
- Okada, Nishida (Brain Group), and Niikawa (Phenomenology Group) gave a presentation at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology.
- News
- Yanaka (NLP Gorup) was selected as one of the "Woman in Tech TOP30 2024: 30 Women Changing the World in the Technology Field" in the Nov 2024 issue of Forbes Japan.
- News
- Nakata, Niikawa (Phenomenology Group), Doi, Katsunuma, and Yanaka (NLP Group), Wang, Okada, and Nishida (Brain Group) gave a presentation at workshop “Brain, Language, and Consciousness”.
- News
- Doi, Katsunuma, and Yanaka (NLP Group) gave a presentation at the 19th YANS Symposium.
- News
- A review paper by Doi and Yanaka (NLP Group) was published on the JSAI official journal "Jinko-Chino."
- News
- A paper by Doi, Isonuma, and Yanaka (NLP Group) was accepted by ACL2024 Student Research Workshop.
- News
- Nishida (Brain Group) gave a presentation at the ASSC Satellite Symposium “Aware and Alive.”
- News
- Niikawa (Phenomenology Group) received the Excellent Young Researcher Award from Kobe University.
- News
- Yanaka (NLP Group) received the MEXT Young Scientists' Prize.
- News
- We have started the activities of our area.
- Events
- We held the 3rd Area Meeting.
- Events
- We hosted a theme session, titled "Cognition/Brain and NLP," at NLP2025. Info
- Events
- We co-sponsored the Mechanism of Brain and Mind the 24th Winter Workshop.
- Events
- We hosted Kobe Philosophy Seminar Series(10):「現代哲学の最前線」.
- Events
- We co-sponsored JNNS Autumn School ASCONE2024 "Brain, Understanding, and Computation".
- Events
- We held the 2nd area meeting on Sep 23 and workshop “Brain, Language, and Consciousness” on Sep 24-25 (the details are coming soon).
- Events
- We hosted the Kobe Philosophy Seminar Series (4): Metaphysics of Consciousness.
- Events
- We hosted the Kobe Philosophy Seminar Series (3): AI Consciousness.
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- We held the 1st area meeting (kick-off meeting).
GREETING
VIEW MOREMy name is Satoshi Nishida, and I am the representative of this research area, "Narrative Consciousness Studies: Pioneering a New Framework for Consciousness." We are supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (B) from FY2024 to FY2026.
In our daily lives, each of us experiences a rich variety of consciousness. Although consciousness is a familiar phenomenon to us, its underlying mechanisms are poorly understood scientifically. This is largely because scientific consciousness research has typically oversimplified rich conscious experiences.
To study rich conscious experiences as they are, our research area focuses on the linguistic narratives of these experiences. We will engage in interdisciplinary research to extract detailed and reliable narratives of conscious experiences, evaluate them quantitatively, and identify their correlates with measured brain signals. We believe that this approach should advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms shaping our rich conscious experiences.

Satoshi Nishida
Senior Researcher
CiNet, Advanced ICT Research Institute, NICT