Imai Mutsumi

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University

Degree: Ph.D.(Other)

Researcher number: 60255601
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901062635732958
researchmap Member ID: 1000364250

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Cognitive sciences / Cognitive Science

Research History

Apr, 2006 - Present

大学教授（環境情報学部）
Oct, 2000 - Present

大学院政策・メディア研究科委員
Apr, 2000 - Present

大学助教授(環境情報学部)
Oct, 2001 - Sep, 2002

大学学生総合センター委員(湘南藤沢支部)
Oct, 1999 - Sep, 2001

大学学生総合センター委員(湘南藤沢支部)
Oct, 1999 - Sep, 2001

大学環境情報学部学習指導副主任
Apr, 1997 - Mar, 2000

大学専任講師(環境情報学部)
Apr, 1996 - Aug, 1996

大学助手(嘱託)(環境情報学部)
Apr, 1995 - Mar, 1996

大学助手(嘱託)(環境情報学部)
Apr, 1994 - Mar, 1995

大学助手(嘱託)(環境情報学部)
Sep, 1993 - Mar, 1994

大学助手(嘱託)(環境情報学部)

Education

Mar, 1989

Graduate School, Division of Sociology, Keio University
Mar, 1985

Graduate School, Division of Sociology, Keio University
Mar, 1982

西洋史学科, Faculty of Literature, Keio University

Committee Memberships

2011 - Present

Executive Committee Member, IASCL(International Association for the Study of Child Language)
2011 - Present

Editorial Board, Child Development Perspective
2011 - Present

常任運営委員, 日本認知科学会
2011 - Present

Executive Committee Member, IASCL(International Association for the Study of Child Language)
2011 - Present

Editorial Board, Child Development Perspective
2011 - Present

常任運営委員, 日本認知科学会
2010 - Present

Review Editor, Frontiers in Language Science
2010 - Present

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Cultural Psyhology
2010 - Present

Review Editor, Frontiers in Language Science
2010 - Present

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Cultural Psyhology
Nov, 2007 - Present

専門委員, 脳科学委員会
Nov, 2007 - Present

専門委員, 脳科学委員会
Jul, 2007 - Present

Consulting Editor, Child Development
Jul, 2007 - Present

Consulting Editor, Child Development
2008

Program Chair, ICIS'08 (International Conference of Infant Studies)
2008

Program Chair, ICIS'08 (International Conference of Infant Studies)
2006 - 2007

Member, 学術会議
2006 - 2007

会員, 学術会議
2004 - 2006

Committee Member, JST 異分野交流事業
2004 - 2006

委員, JST 異分野交流事業

Awards

2018

Fellow, Cognitive Science Society

Imai, Mutsumi
2007

国際賞奨励賞, 日本心理学会

今井むつみ
2000

日本心理学会奨励賞, 日本心理学会
1998

日本認知科学会学会賞, 日本認知科学会
1995

発達科学教育奨励賞, 発達科学研究財団
1994

APA Dissertation Award, APA(American Psycological Association)

Papers

111

From green to turquoise: Exploring age and socioeconomic status in the acquisition of color terms

Molly E. Scott, Junko Kanero, Noburo Saji, Yu Chen, Mutsumi Imai, Roberta M. Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

First Language, 2022
The contingency symmetry bias (affirming the consequent fallacy) as a prerequisite for word learning: A comparative study of pre-linguistic human infants and chimpanzees.

Mutsumi Imai, Chizuko Murai, Michiko Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Okada, Masaki Tomonaga

Cognition, 214 104755-104755, May 3, 2021
Sound symbolism processing is lateralized to the right temporal region in the prelinguistic infant brain

Yang, J, Asano, M, Kanazawa, S, Yamaguchi, M. K, Imai, M

Scientific Reports, 9, Sep, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Sound Symbolism Facilitates Long-Term Retention of the Semantic Representation of Novel Verbs in Three-Year-Olds

Kantartzis, K, Imai, M, Evans, D, Kita, S

Languages, Special Issue: Embodied Cognition and Language: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, 4(2), Mar, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Acquisition of the meaning of the word orange requires understanding of the meanings of red, pink and purple: Constructing a lexicon as a connected system (provisionally accepted)

Saji, N, Asano, M, Imai, M

Cognitive Science, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English

Saji, N, Akita, K, Kantartzis, K, Kita, S, Imai, M

PlosOne, 14(7) 45-61, Jan, 2019 Peer-reviewed
ことばが育む思考力(研究委員会企画シンポジウム４)

今井むつみ, 木村淳子, 松井智子, 中石ゆうこ, 安田哲也, 小林春美, 内田伸子, 楠見孝

日本教育心理学会総会発表論文集, 61 20-20, 2019
The role of timing and prototypical causality on how preschoolers fast-map novel verb meanings

Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Mutsumi Imai, Samantha Durrant, Erika Nurmsoo

FIRST LANGUAGE, 37(2) 186-204, Apr, 2017 Peer-reviewed
The relation between language, culture, and thought

Mutsumi Imai, Junko Kanero, Takahiko Masuda

Current Opinion in Psychology, 8 70-77, Apr 1, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Do classifiers make the syntactic count/mass distinction? Insights from ERPs in classifier processing in Japanese

Junko Kanero, Mutsumi Imai, Hiroyuki Okada, Noriko Hoshino

JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE, 83 20-52, Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Sound Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in 14-Month-Olds

Mutsumi Imai, Michiko Miyazaki, H. Henny Yeung, Shohei Hidaka, Katerina Kantartzis, Hiroyuki Okada, Sotaro Kita

PLOS ONE, 10(2), Feb, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Sound symbolism scaffolds language development in preverbal infants

Michiko Asano, Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita, Keiichi Kitajo, Hiroyuki Okada, Guillaume Thierry

CORTEX, 63 196-205, Feb, 2015 Peer-reviewed
How do children construct the color lexicon?: Restructuring the domain as a connected system

Imai, Mutsumi

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2080-2085, 2015 Peer-reviewed
The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution

Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 369(1651), Sep, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Human locomotion in languages: Constraints on moving and meaning

Barbara C. Malt, Eef Ameel, Mutsumi Imai, Silvia P. Gennari, Noburo Saji, Asifa Majid

JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE, 74 107-123, Jul, 2014
How Sound Symbolism Is Processed in the Brain: A Study on Japanese Mimetic Words

Kanero J, Imai M, Okuda J, Okada H, Matsuda T

PLOS ONE, 9(5) e97905, May, 2014 Peer-reviewed
All giraffes have female-specific properties: Influence of grammatical gender on deductive reasoning about sex-specific properties in German speakers

Imai, Mutsumi

Cognitive Science, 38(1) 514-536, Aug, 2013 Peer-reviewed
The facilitatory role of sound symbolism in infant word learning.

Michiko Miyazaki, Shohei Hidaka, Mutsumi Imai, H. Henny Yeung, Katerina Kantartzis, Hiroyuki Okada, Sotaro Kita

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013, Berlin, Germany, July 31 - August 3, 2013, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Evolution of Verb Meanings in Children and L2 Adult Learners Through Reorganization of an Entire Semantic Domain: The Case of Chinese Carry/Hold Verbs

Noburo Saji, Mutsumi Imai

SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF READING, 17(1) 71-88, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Grammatical Gender and Inferences About Biological Properties in German-Speaking Children

Henrik Saalbach, Mutsumi Imai, Lennart Schalk

COGNITIVE SCIENCE, 36(7) 1251-1267, Sep, 2012 Peer-reviewed

Presentations

136

遊びと生活を通した学び～子供のことばと考える力を育む仕掛け～

今井むつみ

広島県教育委員会令和２年度第２回子育て支援・家庭教育支援研修会, Nov 2, 2020 Invited
ことばの力と思考力

今井むつみ

聖隷クリストファー小学校主催教育フォーラム（静岡県浜松市）, Oct 31, 2020 Invited
How do children learn difficult words?: Unraveling complex processes of lexical acquisition

Imai, Mutsumi

paEpsy 2019, Sep, 2019 Invited
Nature and origin of sound symbolism

Imai, Mutsumi

the International Symposium: Learning sounds of Asian languages, Jul 6, 2019
The role of iconicity in language acquisition and evolution

Imai, Mutsumi

The 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, May 3, 2019 Invited
Evolution of Verb Meanings in L1 Children and L2 Adult Learners : The Case of Chinese Carry/Hold Verbs

Imai, Mutsumi

Department of Speech and Language Department, Turku University, Finland, Sep 6, 2018 Invited
Evolution of Verb Meanings in Children and L2 Adult Learners : The Case of Chinese Carry/Hold Verbs

Imai, Mutsumi

Lecture delivered at the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Auckland University, New Zealand, Mar 8, 2018 Invited
Symbol grounding and de-grounding in language acquisition and evolution: The case of sound-symbolism

Imai, Mutsumi

CLS-MPI Iconicity Focus Group workshop “Types of iconicity in language use, development, and processing.”, Jul, 2017 Invited
Lexicalization patterns in Japanese motion verbs and its influence on cognition

Imai, Mutsumi

May 23, 2017 Invited
Abductive inference in learning of word meanings and scientific concepts in young children

Imai, Mutsumi

the Leipzig University Department of Educational Psychology Colloquium Series, Nov 17, 2016 Invited
Relation between culture, language and thought

Imai, Mutsumi

23rd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP2016), Aug 3, 2016 Invited
Language acquisition and the symbol grounding problem

Imai, Mutsumi

International Cognitive Science Summer School, Jul 4, 2016 Invited
Abductive inference in learning of word meanings and scientific concepts. Paper presented at the Invited symposium “Children’s scientific reasoning skills in the light of general cognitive development.”

Imai, Mutsumi

International Congress of Psychology (ICP2016), Jun 20, 2016 Invited
Looking at foreign language acquisition in relation to the mechanism of mother tongue acquisition

Imai, Mutsumi

The 2016 WELL Conference and Retreat, Mar 6, 2016 Invited
Abductive inference in word learning and scientific discovery

Imai, Mutsumi

the workshop "Communicative and Social Competencies in Early Childhood Development and Learning", Nov 19, 2015 Invited
The Sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution.

Imai, Mutsumi

the 1st conference of the International Association of Cognitive Semiotics, Lund University, Sweden, Sep 27, 2014 Invited
Influence of grammatical gender on German speakers’ deductive reasoning

Imai, Mutsumi

a colloquia at the Center for the Research on Bilingualism, University of Stockholm, Sep 23, 2014 Invited
The Sound-Symbolism Bootstrapping Hypothesis for Language Acquisition and Language Evolution

Imai, Mutsumi

Mar 3, 2014, Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University Invited
Sound symbolism: Neural representation and relation to language development

Imai, Mutsumi

Mar 11, 2013, CNSR, University of Paris, Descartes
Sound symbolism bootstraps language learning

Imai, Mutsumi

Nov 23, 2012, the Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University Invited

Books and Other Publications

英語独習法

今井むつみ

岩波書店, Dec, 2020
Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Psycholinguistics (in press)

Imai, M, Masuda, T, Kanero (Role: Joint author, Language, Culture and Thought)

Oxford University Press, 2019
Learning Language and Concepts from Multiple Examples in Infancy and Childhood (in press)

Imai, M, Childers, J (Role: Joint author, The “Symbol Grounding Problem” reinterpreted from the perspective of language acquisition)

Springer, 2019
Proceedings of 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Mutsumi Imai, Shohei Hidaka, Noburo Saji, Masato Ohba (Role: Joint author, Symbol grounding and system construction in the color lexicon)

2018 (ISBN: 9780991196784)
Meaning, Mind and Communication, Explorations in Cognitive Semiotics

Edited By Jordan Zlatev, Göran Sonesson, Piotr Konderak (Role: Contributor, The "symbol grounding problem" reinterpreted from the perspective of language acquisition)

Peter Lang AG, Mar, 2017 (ISBN: 9783631701300)
はじめての認知科学 (認知科学のススメシリーズ第1巻)

日本認知科学会, 監修, 内村直之, 植田一博, 今井むつみ, 川合伸幸, 嶋田総太郎, 橋田浩一 (Role: Joint author)

新曜社, Mar, 2016 (ISBN: 9784788514584)
学びとは何か: 〈探究人〉になるために

今井むつみ

岩波書店, Mar, 2016 (ISBN: 4004315964)
Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics. (In Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics Series)

Imai, Mutsumi (Role: Contributor, The nature of the count/mass distinction in Japanese)

De Gruyter Mouton, Jun, 2015 (ISBN: 9781614511212)
The conceptual mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts

Imai, Mutsumi (Role: Contributor, Where are the Concepts? What Words Can and Can't Reveal)

The MIT Press, May, 2015 (ISBN: 9780262028639)
言語と身体性 (岩波講座コミュニケーションの認知科学第1巻)

安西祐一郎, 今井むつみ編, 入來篤史, 梅田聡編, 片山容一, 亀田達也, 開一夫編, 山岸俊男 (Role: Joint editor)

岩波書店, Jul, 2014 (ISBN: 9784000113717)
言葉をおぼえるしくみ ─母語から外国語まで

今井むつみ, 針生悦子 (Role: Joint author)

筑摩書房, Feb, 2014 (ISBN: 9784480095947)
ことばの発達の謎を解く

今井むつみ

筑摩書房, Jan, 2013 (ISBN: 9784480688934)
新人が学ぶということ：認知学習論からの視点

今井むつみ, 野島久雄, 岡田浩之 (Role: Joint author)

北樹出版, Apr, 2012 (ISBN: 9784779303210)
Advances in Culture and Psychology: Volume 3

Michele J. Gelfand, Chi-yue Chiu, Ying-yi Hong (Role: Joint author, (Imai, M. & Masuda, T.) The role of language and culture in universality and diversity of human concepts.)

Oxford University Press, USA, 2012 (ISBN: 0199930449)
ことばと思考 (岩波新書)

今井むつみ

岩波書店, Oct 21, 2010 (ISBN: 4004312787)
ことばと思考

今井むつみ

岩波書店, Oct, 2010 (ISBN: 9784004312789)
Lexicalization Patterns and the World-to-Words Mapping (In B. Malt & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the mind: How words capture human experience)

Malt,B. Gennari, S, Imai, M

Oxford University Press, 2010
ことばの意味を「習得」するとは何を意味するのか：認知心理学からの言語発達理論への貢献（遊佐典昭(編) 「言語の可能性９：言語と哲学・心理学」）

今井むつみ, 佐治伸郎

朝倉書店, 2010
Categories in mind and categories in language: Are classifier categories reflection of the mind? (In B. Malt & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the mind: How words capture human experience)

Imai, M, Saalbach, H

Oxford University Press, 2010
外国語学習研究への認知心理学の貢献―語意と語彙の学習の本質をめぐって― （市川伸一(編) 「現代の認知心理学5 発達と学習」）

今井むつみ, 佐治伸郎

北大路書房, 2010

Social Activities

Child Development Perspective

2011 - Present
Frontiers in Language Science

2010 - Present
Frontiers in Cultural Psyhology

2010 - Present
脳科学委員会

Nov, 2007 - Present
Child Development

Jul, 2007 - Present
ABLE -Agents for Bridging Learning research and Educational practice

Commentator, Lecturer, Planner

ABLE archives, Jan 28, 2012 - 2020
学術会議

2006 - 2007
JST 異分野交流事業

2004 - 2006
日本学術振興会

2003 - 2005

Misc.

The Relation Between Language Development and Thinking and Reasoning Skills : The Cases in Typically Developing Children, Children With Hearing Problems, Children With Autism Spectrum, and Children With Non-Japanese Roots

59 326-337, 2019
Preverbal infants' sensitivity to sound symbolism: An EEG study

Michiko Asano, Keiichi Kitajo, Mamiko Arata, Guillaume Thierry, Sotaro Kita, Hiroyuki Okada, Mutsumi Imai

NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, 71 E287-E287, 2011
Is Count/Mass Distinction Grammatically Drawn in Japanese? : an ERP Examination of Count/Mass Classifiers

KANERO Junko, IMAI Mutsumi, OKADA Hiroyuki

IEICE technical report, 110(163) 25-30, Jul 29, 2010
Japanese Toddlers Live in Rich Sound-Symbolic Worlds : A Picture Reading Study

MIYAZAKI Michiko, OKADA Hiroyuki, HARYU Etsuko, IMAI Mutsumi

IEICE technical report, 110(63) 27-31, May 21, 2010
Perception of sound symbolism in 12 month-old infants: An ERP study

Mamiko Arata, Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita, Guillaume Thierry, Hiroyuki Okada

NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, 68 E300-E300, 2010
どうして子どもはことばの意味を学習できるのか

今井むつみ

大津由紀雄編「ことばの宇宙への旅立ち３：１０代からの言語学」ひつじ書房, 2010
言語獲得における意味の再編成過程に言語が与える影響に関する研究

佐治伸郎, 今井むつみ

日本認知科学会大会発表論文集(CD-ROM), 26th, 2009
特集「対称性」へのコメンタリー：言語の成立にとって対称性はたまごかにわとりか

今井むつみ, 岡田浩之

認知科学, 15(3) 470-481, 2008
乳幼児の言語発達を支える学習メカニズム：音声から意味へ

梶川祥世, 今井むつみ

ベビーサイエンス, 5 24-33, 2006
言語学習における領域固有性と社会的能力の役割をめぐって

梶川祥世, 今井むつみ

ベビーサイエンス, 5 40-44, 2006
OBJECTという語が映す世界観

今井むつみ

月刊「科学」巻頭エッセイ岩波書店, Jul, 2005
What helps children to extract relational commonality for learning novel verbs? Role of object similarity and familiarity

M Imai, E Haryu, H Okada

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 39(5-6) 515-516, Oct, 2004
Mechanism of Lexical Development

IMAI Mutsumi

20(2) 125-135, Jun 25, 2004
How young children map novel nouns and maps to action events, and how they generalize their meanings Mutsumi Imai Mutsumi

Imai Mutsumi

IEICE technical report. Natural language understanding and models of communication, 103(518) 13-18, Dec 19, 2003
How young children map novel nouns and maps to action events, and how they generalize their meanings

IMAI Mutsumi

IPSJ SIG Notes, 2003(124) 259-264, Dec 18, 2003
Editor's Introduction to "Machine Learning vs. Human Learning: Why Can't Machines Outsmart Humans ?"(<Special Issue>Machine Learning vs. Human Learning : Why Can't Machines Outsmart Humans ?")

IMAI Mutsumi, Mutsumi Imai

18(5) 517-518, Sep 1, 2003
Conditions for Language Learning to Be Symbol-Grounded(<Special Issue>Machine Learning vs. Human Learning : Why Can't Machines Outsmart Humans ?")

IMAI Mutsumi, Mutsumi Imai, Faculty of Environmental Information Keio University

Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 18(5) 580-585, Sep 1, 2003
言語獲得研究の新潮流(3)語意推論の制約--名詞・動詞をめぐって

今井むつみ, 針生悦子

言語, 32(9) 98-103, Sep, 2003
Modeling Stimulus Equivalence with Neural Networks

OKADA Hiroyuki, IMAI Mutsumi, HARYU Etsuko, YAMAKAWA Hiroshi

IEICE technical report. Neurocomputing, 102(627) 19-24, Jan 27, 2003
The Role and Nature of Word Learning Constraints for Lexical Acquisition(<Special Issue> "Language Aquisition")

IMAI Mutsumi, HARYU Etsuko, Mutsumi Imai, Etsuko Haryu, Faculty of Environmental Information Keio University, Faculty of Letters Aoyama-Gakuin University

Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 18(1) 31-40, Jan 1, 2003

Professional Memberships

Teaching Experience

WORKSHOPS ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE (Keio University)
SEMINAR A (Keio University)
MASTER SEMINAR (Keio University)
LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT (Keio University)
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH (Keio University)
GRADUATION PROJECT 2 (Keio University)
GRADUATION PROJECT 1 (Keio University)
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (Keio University)
COGNITIVE LEARNING (Keio University)
ACADEMIC PROJECT (Keio University)
認知科学ワークショップ (慶應義塾)
研究会Ａ (慶應義塾)
修士研究会 (慶應義塾)
言語と思考 (慶應義塾)
特別研究 (慶應義塾)
卒業プロジェクト２ (慶應義塾)
卒業プロジェクト１ (慶應義塾)
認知心理学 (慶應義塾)
認知学習論 (慶應義塾)
アカデミックプロジェクト (慶應義塾)

Works

パネルディスカッション要旨資質・能力を育成する教育課程の編成と実施をどのように進めるか (特集第46回教育展望セミナー全体会報告)

合田哲雄, 天笠茂, 寺崎千秋, 佐藤真

Nov, 2017 - Present Other
小学校での英語教育は必要ない

IMAI MUTSUMI

May 31, 2005 - Present Other
レキシコンの発達の研究に取り組んできた経緯、そこから得られたもの、そして今後の研究の展望

IMAI MUTSUMI

Feb 12, 2005 - Present Other
認知学習論から考える英語教育

IMAI MUTSUMI

Dec 18, 2004 - Present Other
メンタルレキシコンにおける語意のメタ知識.

IMAI MUTSUMI

Dec 11, 2004 - Present Other
Universal and language-specific factors influencing early word leaming

IMAI MUTSUMI

Nov 13, 2004 - Present Other
幼児は単語の意味をどのように学習するのか

IMAI MUTSUMI

Nov 4, 2004 - Present Other
人が学ぶということ

IMAI MUTSUMI

Apr 20, 2003 - Present Other
An Introduction to Data Analysis

IMAI MUTSUMI

May 20, 1998 - Present Other
科学技術庁「科学技術フォ－ラム」委員企画

今井むつみ

1998 - Present Other
Universal and language -specific factors influencing early verb learning.

IMAI MUTSUMI

Aug 8, 2004 - Aug 13, 2004 Other

Research Projects

Development of an assessment of the knowledge and the ability of using the Japanese language for non-Japanese native children to study academic subjects in Japanese schools

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jul, 2021 - Mar, 2025
音象徴進化仮説ー普遍性から言語個別性、身体性から抽象性・体系性へ

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(A), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2025

今井むつみ, 大槻美佳, 生田目美紀, 秋田喜美, 佐治伸郎
言語理解の脳内機構

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2023

大槻美佳, 中川賀嗣, 今井むつみ
Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge of JSL children and its relation to academic and inference skills: From the Perspective of Cognitive Science

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2021

NAKAISHI Yuko
言語記号が(非)恣意的である理由と利点：進化・発達・脳機能の総合的検討

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), MEXT,JSPS, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2021

今井むつみ
感覚から記号、記号体系へ：触知覚語における習得及び喪失過程の実験的検討

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, MEXT,JSPS, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

今井むつみ
How does grammar emerge in the human brain?: An insight from the East Asian comparative cognitive neuroscience of language

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2020

Sakai Hiromu
色語の習得が難しい理由――色語彙システム創発と発達過程の多言語比較研究

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, MEXT,JSPS, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

今井むつみ
How can we make universally sensed sound-meaning combinations? : Conditions for universal and language-specific sound symbolism.

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2017

IMAI Mutsumi
Model-free and model-based learning mechanism for lexical acquisition

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2016

IMAI Mutsumi, MATSUI Tomoko, OKADA Hiroyuki, KITAJO Keiichi, TOMONAGA Masaki
Elucidation of the Neral Computation for Prediction and Decision Making

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2016

Doya Kenji, SAKAGAMI Masamichi, OKAMOTO Hitoshi, SHIBATA Tomohiro, OKADA Mitsuhiro, HIKIDA Takatoshi, SUGIYAMA Masashi, KIMURA Minoru, IMAI Mutsumi, TAKAHASHI Hidehiko
Sound symbolism bootstraps infants into referential insight

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2014

IMAI Mutsumi, OKADA Hiroyuki, SAKAI Hiromu
Is the Symmetry Inference the Chicken or the Egg for LanguageLearning? : Direct Comparison of Human Infants and Chimpanzees

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2010 - 2012

IMAI Mutsumi, OKADA Hiroyuki
Self-generating Learning Process in Lexical Development

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2006 - 2009

IMAI Mutsumi, HARYU Etsuko, OKADA Hiroyuki, KAJIKAWA Sachuyo
The language-universal and Japanese-specific factors affecting children's word learning

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2005 - 2007

HARYU Etsuko, IMAI Mutsumi, OKADA Hiroyuki, KAJIKAWA Sachiyo
Unitization, categorization, and lexicalization of action events in young children

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003 - 2005

IMAI Mutsumi
Mechanism of verb learning: How young children infer meanings of novel verbs

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2000 - 2002

IMAI Mutsumi
ことばの学習のメカニズムに関する研究

科学研究費助成事業, 特定領域研究(A), 日本学術振興会, 2000 - 2000

今井むつみ
Knowledge Discovery by Inferences

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1998 - 2000

SATO Taisuke, HARAGUCHI Makoto, IMAI Mutsumi, ARIMURA Hiroki, SATO Masako, SHINOHARA Takeshi
ことばの学習のメカニズムに関する研究

科学研究費助成事業, 特定領域研究(A), 日本学術振興会, 1999 - 1999

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