2019
Original Research Papers
- Tanaka, K., Nakamura, I., Ohta, S., Fukui, N., Zushi, M., Narita, H., & Sakai, K. L., Merge-generability as the key concept of human language: Evidence from neuroscience, Front. Psychol., Frontiers, 10, 2673, 1–16, 2019. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02673
- Osada, T., Ohta, S., Ogawa, A., Tanaka, M., Suda, A., Kamagata, K., Hori, M., Aoki, S., Shimo, Y., Hattori, N., Shimizu, T., Enomoto, H., Hanajima, R., Ugawa, Y., & Konishi, S., An essential role of the intraparietal sulcus in response inhibition predicted by parcellation-based network, J. Neurosci., Society for Neuroscience, 39(13), 2509–2521, 2019. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2244-18.2019
Others
- Ohta, S., Gengoya ni okeru bunpō no keisan genri: fMRI ni yoru tōji sōsa no kentō [Computational principles of syntax in the language areas: Verification of the syntactic operations using fMRI] (in Japanese), Oninkenkyu (Phonological Studies), The Phonological Society of Japan, 22, 147–148, 2019.
Presentations
Invited talks
- Ohta, S., Bunkei gakusei ni taisuru sūri dēta saiensu kyōiku no jissen: Jikken gengogaku o rei ni [Practice of education of mathematical and data science to the students in the humanities: An example from experimental linguistics] (in Japanese), TOGAKU Theoretical Linguistic Colloquium, Tokyo, Japan, June 2019.
- Ohta, S., Invited symposium: Contribution of brain science to language science: Functional neuroimaging as a tool for testing/generating linguistic hypotheses, The Japanese Society for Language Sciences 21st Annual International Conference (JSLS2019), Sendai, Japan, July 2019.
Oral presentations
- Ohta, S., Heigō enzan no shinkei kiban: fMRI ni yoru kentō [The neural bases of the Merge operation: An fMRI investigation] (in Japanese), Evolinguistics 2019 Team Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2019.
- Ohta, S., Oseki, Y., & Marantz, A., Dissociating the effects of morphemes and letters in visual word recognition: An MEG study of Japanese verbs, AMLaP2019, Moscow, Russia, Sept. 2019.
- Osada, T., Ohta, S., Ogawa, A., Tanaka, M., Suda, A., Kamagata, K., Aoki, S., Shimo, Y., Hattori, N., Shimizu, T., Enomoto, H., Hanajima, R., Ugawa, Y., & Konishi, S., Essentiality of the intraparietal sulcus for response inhibition revealed by fMRI and TMS. 3rd Japanese Meeting for Human Brain Imaging, Tokyo, Japan, Sept.
- Ohta, S., Oseki, Y., & Marantz, A., Selective modulation of left inferior temporal activation by morphological decomposition: An MEG study of Japanese verbs, NEURO2019, Niigata, Japan, July 2019.
- Ohta, S., Oseki, Y., & Marantz, A., Keitaiso e no bunkatsu wa hidari bōsui jō kai / ka sokutō kai no katsudō o sentakuteki ni henka saseru: Nihongo dōshi no nōjizu kenkyū [Morphological decomposition selectively modulates activation in the left fusiform/inferior temporal gyri: An MEG study of Japanese verbs] (in Japanese), 158th LSJ Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, June 2019.
- Ohta, S., Oseki, Y., & Marantz, A., Morphological, but not orthographic, decomposition of morphologically complex verbs in Japanese: An MEG study, PIPP2019, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2019.
- Ohta, S., Oseki, Y., & Marantz, A., Morphological decomposition of morphologically complex verbs in Japanese: An MEG study, NEUROLANG-AD 2019, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Apr. 2019.
- Ohta, S., Heigō oyobi hi-heigō enzan ni tsuite no jikkenteki kentō [An experimental consideration of Merge and non-Merge computations] (in Japanese), Evolinguistics 2019 Meeting, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 2019.
- Ohta, S., Oseki, Y., & Marantz, A., Nihongo dōshi shori no Shinkei kiban: MEG kenkyū [The neural basis of Japanese verb processing: An MEG study] (in Japanese), 4th Tsutomu Sakamoto Memorial Neuroscience Conference, Kanazawa, Japan, Feb. 2019.
- Gallagher, D. C., Yano, M., & Ohta, S., Syntactic and Orthographic/Phonological Violation Processing across Modalities in Native Spanish Speakers: An ERP Study, 4th Tsutomu Sakamoto Memorial Neuroscience Conference, Kanazawa, Japan, Feb. 2019.
- Nakajima, J., Yano, M., & Ohta, S., Nihongo keiyōshi no hasei ni kansuru yōnindo handan jikken [An acceptability judgment experiment on derivation of Japanese adjectives] (in Japanese), 4th Tsutomu Sakamoto Memorial Neuroscience Conference, Kanazawa, Japan, Feb. 2019.
Poster presentations
- Ohta, S., Oseki, Y., & Marantz, A., Morpheme processing in the ventral temporal lobe: An MEG study of Japanese verbs, SoA XX, Rome, Italy, Sept. 2019.
- Ohta, S., Oseki, Y., & Marantz, A., Disentangling morphological processing and letter recognition: An MEG study of Japanese verbs, SNL2019, Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 2019.
- Osada, T., Ohta, S., Ogawa, A., Tanaka, M., Suda, A., Kamagata, K., Hori, M., Aoki, S., Shimo, Y., Hattori, N., Shimizu, T., Enomoto, H., Hanajima, R., Ugawa, Y., & Konishi, S., Causal role of the posterior parietal cortex for response inhibition revealed by fMRI and TMS, NEURO2019, Niigata, Japan, July 2019.
- Osada, T., Ohta, S., Ogawa, A., Tanaka, M., Suda, A., Kamagata, K., Hori, M., Aoki, S., Shimo, Y., Hattori, N., Shimizu, T., Enomoto, H., Hanajima, R., Ugawa, Y., & Konishi, S., Necessity of the posterior parietal cortex in response inhibition revealed by fMRI and TMS, OHBM2019, Rome, Italy, June 2019.
- Nakajima, J., Ohta, S. & Fukui, N., Heigō to hi-heigō enzan no shinkei kiban: Rironteki / jikkenteki kentō [The neural basis of Merge and non-Merge computations: A theoretical/experimental consideration] (in Japanese), Tokyo Lectures in Evolinguistics 2019, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2019.
- Ohta, S. & Fukui, N., Heigō oyobi hi-heigō enzan ni tsuite no rironteki / jikkenteki kentō [A theoretical/experimental consideration of Merge and non-Merge computations] (in Japanese), Evolinguistics 2019 Meeting, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 2019.
Research Grants
- Apr. 2019–Mar. 2023. PI (with Hideaki Hayashi and Hiroki Masuda), Received a Grant-in-Aid for Interdisciplinary Research by Young Researchers (Q-dai jump Research Program: Tsubasa Project), Kyushu University. (JPY 4,050,000 for four years, Approx. USD 36,800). Verification of the language processing in the brain through integration of linguistics, information science, and mathematics.
- Apr. 2019–Mar. 2024. PI (with Hiroki Narita and Yohei Oseki), Received a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 19H01256, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. (JPY 17,420,000 for four years, Approx. USD 167,500). Acceptance rate: 32% (13/41 (3327/11396)). Elucidation of the neural basis of language through integration of theory, models, and experiments.