Presentations
Invited talks

1. Ohta, S., Nihongo no keitai tōgo shori no shinkei kiban: Nōjizu kenkyū [The neural basis of morphosyntactic processing in Japanese: An MEG study] (in Japanese), TOGAKU Theoretical Linguistic Colloquium, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2018.
2. Ohta, S., Gengo kakutoku / gengo gakushū o sasaeru nō [Brain mechanisms that support language acquisition and language learning] (in Japanese), ATEP Summer Workshop 2018, Yamaguchi, Japan, Aug. 2018.
3. Ohta, S., Computational principles of syntax in the language areas: Verification of the syntactic operations using fMRI (in Japanese), PhSJ 2018 Spring Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, June 2018.
4. Ohta, S., Gengo no bunpō wa nō de donoyō ni rikai / sanshutsu sa reru no ka? [How is the grammar of language understood and produced in the brain?] (in Japanese), Inaugural Lecture at Kyushu University 2018, Fukuoka, Japan, May 2018.

Poster presentations

1. Ohta, S. & Fukui, N., Heigō oyobi hi-heigō enzan no rironteki / shinkei kagakuteki kōsatsu [A theoretical/neuroscientific consideration of Merge and non-Merge computations] (in Japanese), Evolinguistics 2018 Meeting, Shiga, Japan, Aug. 2018.
2. Ohta, S. Gengo no bunpō o keisan suru nōnai nettowāku no tokutei [Identification of the neural network that computes syntax of the human language] (in Japanese), Future of Mathematics and AI: Development and Expectations of Computational Science, Fukuoka, Japan, May 2018.

Research Grants

1. Sept. 2018. Co-PI, Received a Grant-in-Aid for Research Environment Improvements for Young Researchers (Kyushu University Renaissance Project), Kyushu University. (JPY 9,303,000, Approx. USD 89,400). Preparation of common research laboratory for data science on humanities.
2. Apr. 2018–Mar. 2023. Co-Investigator of a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, 17H06379, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. (JPY 15,275,000 for five years, Approx. USD 138,800). Theoretical frameworks for studying the origins and evolution of human language.