Multisensory Communication Project

About Project

In daily communication, we express and perceive both linguistic and nonlinguistic information through multiple senses. There are cultural, developmental, and individual differences in the manner of communication. We cyclically investigate the functions of mind which underlies communication, and develop communication technologies based on scientific evidence.

Research Director

Tanaka Akihiro

Department of Psychology, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Akihiro Tanaka was born in Tokyo in 1975. He received B.A. in literature from Waseda University, M.S. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Tokyo. He was an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University. Currently he is a professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University.

Research Director

Morise Masanori

School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University

Masanori Morise was born in Hokkaido in 1981. He received the Ph.D. degree in engineering from Wakayama University in 2008. He was a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1), a postdoctoral researcher at Kwansei Gakuin University, an Assistant Professor at Ritsumeikan University, and an Associate Professor at University of Yamanashi. He is currently an Associate Professor at Meiji University.

Message from Research Director

Tanaka Akihiro
“We investigate the mechanism of human mind which enables communication. Cognitive psychology is very unique since its goal is to uncover the mystery of human mind as a field of humanities and its methodology is based on natural science.”
Morise Masanori
“Speech is a means of communication that humans have used since ancient times. People transmit various kinds of information on their voices, in addition to information expressed in the text. We are studying the mechanisms of information transmission and reception by speech. ”