Towards an integrated understanding of “Mind-Brain-Body” interactions, our lab focuses on various cognitive functions by using multiple research methods.

• Psychophysiology, Neuropsychiatry, Autonomic Neuroscience, and Physiological Biometeorology

  Neural mechanisms of emotion, subjective feelings, and autonomic activities; interoception and pain; psychophysiological assessment of stress states; the sense of agency; anxiety, depression, somatic symptom disorder; the adaptive mechanisms of the body-brain and psychological changes associated with climate change; and the physiological mechanisms for sensing barometric pressure changes.

• Cognitive Neuroscience

  Functional brain imaging and neuropsychological studies of the frontal lobe and higher-order cognitive functions, including episodic memory encoding and retrieval, prospective memory, episodic future thinking, mind wandering, mental time travel, false memory, and monitoring.

• Social and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

  Functional brain imaging and neuropsychological studies of empathy and “theory of mind”, facial recognition, and social interactions. Cognitive deficits in developmental disorders.

• Cognitive Neurology

  Neurological studies of cognitive deficits following neurodegenerative diseases associated with proteinopathy including dementia.