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Awards and Fellowships

  1. Apr. 2016–Mar. 2019 Received JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD) (Withdrawn), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. (JPY 13,032,000 for three years, Approx. USD 120,000). Acceptance rate: 13% (46/349 (355/2976)). Elucidation of a neural basis of phonological learning of English: A study using neurofeedback.
  2. Dec. 2013. Received 3rd ICPP Travel Award.
  3. Apr. 2012–Mar. 2014. Received JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JPY 4,800,000 for two years, Approx. USD 45,000). Acceptance rate: 25% (120/483 (1229/4943)). Elucidation of functional/anatomical networks among regions processing sentence structures using MEG and tractography.
  4. July 2011–Dec. 2011. Received Scholarship for Doctoral Students, The University of Tokyo. (JPY 300,000 for one year, Approx. USD 2,800). Elucidation of neural networks related to the processing of syntactic structures using MEG and DTI.
  5. Mar. 2010. Received JAIST-EELC 2010 Travel Award.

Book Chapters

  1. Ohta, S., Shinkei kagaku jikken to tahenryō kaiseki ni yoru on’in riron no jisshō [Verification of phonological theories using neuroscience experiments and multivariate analyses] (in Japanese), In The Phonological Society of Japan (Ed.), Gendai On’in Riron no Dōkō: Nihon On’inron Gakkai 20 Shūnen Kinen Ronbun Shū [Trends in Contemporary Phonology], Tokyo (pp. 114–117), Kaitakusha, 2016.

Original Research Papers

  1. Ohta, S. & Ohta, S., Rendaku no seikiritsu ni motozuku Nihongo fukugōgo no bunrui: Rendaku Dētabēsu ni yoru kenkyū [Classification of Japanese compounds based on the frequency of rendaku: A study using the Rendaku Database] (in Japanese), NINJAL Research Papers, The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 10, 179–191, 2016. doi: 10.15084/00000814
  2. Kinno, R., Ohta, S., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., & Sakai, K. L., Left frontal glioma induces functional connectivity changes in syntax-related networks, SpringerPlus, Springer, 4, 317, 1–6, 2015. doi: 10.1186/s40064-015-1104-6
  3. Ohta, S., On’inteki/imiteki yōin ga rendaku ni ataeru eikyō: Rendaku Dētabēsu to rojisutikku kaiki bunseki o riyōshita kenkyū [Effects of phonological and semantic factors on rendaku: A study using the rendaku database and logistic regression analyses] (in Japanese), Oninkenkyu (Phonological Studies), The Phonological Society of Japan, 18, 85–92, 2015.
  4. Kinno, R., Ohta, S., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., & Sakai, K. L., Differential reorganization of three syntax-related networks induced by a left frontal glioma, Brain, Oxford University Press, 137, 1193–1212, 2014. doi: 10.1093/brain/awu013
  5. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., Syntactic computation in the human brain: The Degree of Merger as a key factor, PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, 8, e56230, 1–16, 2013. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056230

Review Papers

  1. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., Computational principles of syntax in the regions specialized for language: Integrating theoretical linguistics and functional neuroimaging, Behav. Neurosci., Frontiers, 7, 204, 1–13, 2013. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00204

Others

  1. Ohta, S., Gakkai inshōki SNL2015 The 7th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language [SNL2015 The 7th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language] (in Japanese), BRAIN and Nerve, Igaku-Shoin, 68(2), 194–195, 2016. doi: 10.11477/mf.1416200373

Presentations
Invited talks

  1. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., Zushi, M., Narita, H., & Sakai, K. L., Merge-generability as a crucial concept in syntax: An experimental study, First International Symposium on the Physics of Language, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2016.
  2. Shintani, T., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Shinomoto, S., Estimating effective connectivity between brain areas with DCM, Workshop on fluctuating activity in neural networks, Kyoto, Japan, Mar. 2015.
  3. Ohta, S., Koizumi, M., & Sakai, K. L., Nō katsudō kara mita Kakuchikerugo no gojun no kōka [Effects of word orders in Kaqchikel Maya from the viewpoint of the brain activation] (in Japanese), Language, Thought, and Brain looking from Mayan languages, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 2015.
  4. Ohta, S., Iizawa, M., Iijima, K., Nakai, T., Narita, H., Zushi, M., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., An on-going research: The experimental design, CREST Workshop with Noam Chomsky, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2014.
  5. Narita, H., Zushi, M., Fukui, N., Ohta, S., Iizawa, M., Iijima, K., Nakai, T., & Sakai, K. L., An on-going research: The linguistic/theoretical background, CREST Workshop with Noam Chomsky, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2014.
  6. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., Computational principles of syntax in the regions specialized for language, CREST Workshop with Noam Chomsky, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2014.

Oral presentations

  1. Tanaka, K., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Activation changes of the left frontal regions modified by independent factors of construction and scrambling, Neuroscience2016, Yokohama, Japan, July 2016.
  2. Ohta, S., Kinōteki jiki kyōmei gazō hō (fMRI) to tōgo shori no shinkei kiban [fMRI and the neural basis of syntactic processing] (in Japanese), in Workshop “Theoretical linguistics and cognitive neuroscience of language,” 152nd LSJ Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, June 2016.
  3. Ohta, S., Koizumi, M., & Sakai, K. L., Scrambling elicits larger activation than topicalization in the grammar centers: An fMRI study in Kaqchikel Maya, Experimental Approaches to Arabic and other understudied Languages (EXAL+), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Jan. 2016.
  4. Ohta, S., Koizumi, M., & Sakai, K. L., The left inferior frontal gyrus activation selectively increased by the object shift in a sentence: An fMRI study in Kaqchikel Maya, Neuroscience2015, Kobe, Japan, July 2015.
  5. Kinno, R., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Shinkei kōshu kanja de mi rare ta tōgo shori ni kan’yosuru nōnai nettowāku no kinō renkan no henka [Changes of functional connectivity in neural networks related to syntactic processing observed in glioma patients] (in Japanese), The 17th Congress of Japan Human Brain Mapping Society, Osaka, Japan, July 2015.
  6. Kinno, R., Ohta, S., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., Kasai, H., Uchiyama, M., Kurokawa, S., Sakae, Y., & Sakai, K. L., Functional connectivity change within syntax-related networks in glioma patients, 56th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neurology, Niigata, Japan, May 2015.
  7. Shintani, T., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Shinomoto, S., DCM ni yoru nō ryōya kan no yūkō ketsugō no suitei [Estimating effective connectivity between brain areas with DCM] (in Japanese), JPS2015, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2015.
  8. Ohta, S., Koremade no kenkyū gaiyō: Gengogaku to MRI ni motozuku gengoya ni okeru bunpō keisan no kaimei [Elucidation of the syntactic computation in the language areas based on linguistics and MRI] (in Japanese), Seminar in Research Institute of National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2015.
  9. Ohta, S., fMRI to DTI no kiso [Basics of fMRI and DTI] (in Japanese), Meeting on Second Language Acquisition, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2015.
  10. Ohta, S., DTI no kiso to sono gengo nō kagaku kenkyū e no ōyō [Basics of DTI and application to the neuroscience of language] (in Japanese), 8th Neuroscience Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2015.
  11. Kinno, R., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Abnormal functional connectivity patterns in syntax-related networks caused by a glioma, Neuroscience2014, Yokohama, Japan, Sept. 2014.
  12. Ohta, S., Koizumi, M., & Sakai, K. L., An fMRI study in Kaqchikel Maya for the effect of scrambled sentences, Neuroscience2014, Yokohama, Japan, Sept. 2014.
  13. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., The importance of the top-down connection through the superior longitudinal and arcuate fasciculi for the computation of syntactic structures, NEURO2013, Kyoto, Japan, June 2013.
  14. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., The importance of the dorsal pathway for the computation of syntactic structures, Neuroscience2012, Nagoya, Japan, Sept. 2012.
  15. Kinno, R., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Visualization of language-related networks by activations in patients with left frontal gliomas and by the diffusion-tensor imaging for normal controls, Neuroscience2012, Nagoya, Japan, Sept. 2012.
  16. Kinno, R., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Differential and global cortical reorganization induced by left frontal glioma: Visualization of three syntax-related networks, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neurology, Tokyo, Japan, May 2012.
  17. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., Tōgo kōzō no saikiteki keisan ni sentakuteki na gengoya no katsudō [The activation in the language areas selective for recursive computations of syntactic structures] (in Japanese), 142nd LSJ Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, June 2011.
  18. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., Umekomi kōzō no shori e no migi bijō kaku tō no kan’yo: fMRI o mochiita kenkyū [The role of the right caudate head on processing of nested structures: An fMRI study] (in Japanese), 138th LSJ Meeting, Chiba, Japan, June 2009.

Poster presentations

  1. Ohta, S., Koizumi, M., & Sakai, K. L., Dissociating scrambling from topicalization for activations in the grammar centers: An fMRI study in Kaqchikel Maya, SNL2015, Chicago, IL, USA, Oct. 2015.
  2. Kinno, R., Ohta, S., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., Kasai, H., Uchiyama, M., Kurokawa, S., Sakae, Y., & Sakai, K. L., Functional connectivity changes in syntax-related networks among patients with a glioma, OHBM2015, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 2015.
  3. Ohta, S., Koizumi, M., & Sakai, K. L., The left frontal activation selectively modulated by syntactic processing: An fMRI study with a special VOS language, VMT2014, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2014.
  4. Muragaki, Y., Kinno, R., Ohta, S., Maruyama, T., Tamura, M., Saito, T., Nitta, M., & Sakai, K. L., Hidari zentōyō shinkei kōshu no kinō kaiseki ni yoru bunpō kanren shinkei kairo no dōtei to bui goto no sai-soshiki ka [Identification of syntax-related neural networks by functional analyses of left frontal glioma and reorganization of every region] (in Japanese), JSNO2014, Chiba, Japan, Nov. 2014.
  5. Ohta, S. & Ohta, S., Rendaku ni zenbu yōso no on’inteki tokuchō ga ataeru eikyō: Rendaku Dētabēsu o riyōshita kenkyū [Effects of first-element phonological features on rendaku: A study using the Rendaku Database] (in Japanese), 6th Workshop on Corpus Linguistics of Japanese Language, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 2014.
  6. Ohta, S., Koizumi, M., & Sakai, K. L., Activation modulation in the left inferior frontal gyrus caused by scrambled word orders: An fMRI study in Kaqchikel Maya, SNL2014, Amsterdam, Netherland, Aug. 2014.
  7. Ohta, S. & Ohta, S., Rendaku “enthusiasts” and rendaku “indifferents”: Classification of compound nouns based on the frequency of rendaku, 3rd ICPP, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2013.
  8. Kinno, R., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Differential agrammatic comprehension due to white matter damage in the dorsal and ventral pathways, NEURO2013, Kyoto, Japan, June 2013.
  9. Kinno, R., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Tōgo shori shōgai no shinkei kikō no kaimei: Nōkinō imējingu ni yoru gengo nettowāku no kashi ka [Elucidation of the neural basis of syntactic processing disorders: Visualization of language networks using functional neuroimaging] (in Japanese), 54th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neurology, Tokyo, Japan, May 2013.
  10. Kinno, R., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Nōshuyō kanja no nō katsudō to kenjōsha no kakusan tensoru gazō ni yoru gengo no shinkei kairo no kaimei [Elucidation of the neural networks of language using fMRI of tumor patients and DTI of healthy controls] (in Japanese), CREST 2013 Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2013.
  11. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., Gengo no bunpō keisan o tsukasadoru shinkei kairo no kaimei: Hidari ka zentō kai oyobi hidari enjō kai no yakuwari [Elucidation of the neural networks controlling syntactic computation of language: Roles of the left inferior frontal and supramarginal gyri] (in Japanese), CREST 2013 Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2013.
  12. Kinno, R., Muragaki, Y., Maruyama, T., Ohta, S., & Sakai, K. L., Hidari zentōyō no nōshuyō kanja no nō katsudō ni yori akiraka to natta gengo kinō no shinkei kairo [The neural networks of language faculty elucidated by the neural activation of patients with left frontal glioma] (in Japanese), CREST 2012 Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2012.
  13. Sakai, K. L., Ohta, S., & Fukui, N., Recursive Computation in the Human Brain, ling50 reunion, Cambridge, MA, USA, Dec. 2011.
  14. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., Specialization of the human language areas for the recursive computation of syntactic structures, NLC2011, Annapolis, MD, USA, Nov. 2011.
  15. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., Elucidation of the recursive computation in the language areas: Embedding depth as a computational principle, Neuroscience2011, Yokohama, Japan, Sept. 2011.
  16. Ohta, S., Fukui, N., & Sakai, K. L., The selective modulation of the frontal activations by embedding depths in sentences: An fMRI study, NEURO2010, Kobe, Japan, Sept. 2010.

Research Grants

  1. Apr. 2015–Mar. 2017. PI, Received Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 15K16733, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. (JPY 1,560,000 for two years, Approx. USD 15,000).　 Acceptance rate: 33% (35/105 (5771/19272)). Elucidation of neural bases of universality and variability of language through a comparative study of Japanese and Kaqchikel.
  2. Apr. 2012–Mar. 2014. PI, Received Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow, 12J08931, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. (JPY 2,000,000 for two years, Approx. USD 19,200). Elucidation of functional/anatomical networks among regions processing sentence structures using MEG and tractography.

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