Awards and Fellowships

1. Feb. 2017–Mar. 2018. Received JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. (JPY 5,438,400 for one year, Approx. USD 50,000). Acceptance rate: 21% (12/56 (185/977)). Elucidation of a neural basis of processing morphosyntactic structure of verbs: An English-Japanese contrastive study using MEG.

Book Chapters

1. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., Syntactic computation in the human brain: The Degree of Merger as a key factor, In Fukui, N., Merge in the Mind-Brain: Essays on Theoretical Linguistics and the Neuroscience of Language (pp. 181–236), Oxon, Routledge, 2017 (A reprint of Ohta et al., 2013, PLOS ONE).
2. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., Computational principles of syntax in the regions specialized for language: Integrating theoretical linguistics and functional neuroimaging, In Fukui, N., Merge in the Mind-Brain: Essays on Theoretical Linguistics and the Neuroscience of Language (pp. 237–264), Oxon, Routledge, 2017 (A reprint of Ohta et al., 2013, Front. Behav. Neurosci).

Original Research Papers

1. Tanaka, K., Ohta, S., Kinno, R., & Sakai, K. L., Activation changes of the left inferior frontal gyrus for the factors of construction and scrambling in a sentence, Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, the Japan Academy, 93(7), 511–522, 2017. doi: 10.2183/pjab.93.031
2. Ohta, S., Koizumi, M., & Sakai, K. L., Dissociating effects of scrambling and topicalization within the left frontal and temporal language areas: An fMRI study in Kaqchikel Maya, Front. Psychol., Frontiers, 8, 748, 1–14, 2017. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00748

Others

1. Ohta, S., Proofreading and Revision of a Japanese Translation with Dr. Takaomi Kato, Translated by Watarai, K., Chomusukī Gengogaku Kōgi: Gengo wa Ikani Shite Shinkashita ka, Chikumashobo, 2017 (Berwick, R. C. & Chomsky, N., Why Only Us: Language and Evolution, Cambridge: MA, The MIT Press, 2015).

Presentations
Invited talks

1. Ohta, S., Neuroscience as linguistics, linguistics as neuroscience, Japanese Association of Scholars in Science Meeting, New York, NY, USA, Dec. 2017.

Poster presentations

1. Tanaka, K., Ohta, S., Fukui, N., Zushi, M., Narita, H., & Sakai, K. L., Shizen gengo no kihon enzan Merge ni tokuiteki na nō katsudō henka [Activation changes selective to Merge, the fundamental computation of natural language] (in Japanese), 1st Japanese Meeting for Human Brain Imaging, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 2017.

Research Grants

1. Oct. 2017–Mar. 2022. PI, Received a Research Grant from Education and Research Center for Mathematical and Data Science, Kyushu University. (JPY 40,000,000 for five years, Approx. USD 385,000).