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Theoretical Life Science Laboratory
Associate Professor / NISHIYAMA Yuta
- Creativity of Living Systems
- Multisensory Stimulation Changes Consciousness and Behaviour
- Mutual Anticipation among Agents during Collective Behaviour
Associate Professor / NISHIYAMA Yuta
His research interest is a relationship between part and whole of living systems. This abstract theme covers a wide range of studies such as human cognitive experiments, animal behaviours, and computer simulation. He is an open-minded and tolerant person with a sense of responsibility, willing to accept students' ideas through deep discussion.
Research Content
Most of lab members carry out human cognitive experiments and the others do theoretical studies. The experiments address how multisensory stimulation shapes unusual subjective experience. Manipulating correspondence among multisensory stimulation changes self-awareness on the body and also an external object. These studies involve fundamental knowledge of consciousness and application to VR systems. The theoretical studies address mechanisms of critical phenomena. Mutual anticipation model is used to reveal emergent properties of human/animal collective behaviours. Asynchronously tuned elementary cellular automaton is utilized as a tool of reservoir computing. Both empirical and theoretical studies would lead to unconventional perspective of living systems.
Experiment: Application of tractive force to automobile VR user
A Day in the Lab
We have a meeting to review literature every week. Other than that, lab members work on individual research at their disposal. Your research theme will be made in line with your interests. Progress of your research should be reported accordingly so you would find a way to improve it.
Lab members always help each other with their research. There are a lot of opportunities (if you like) to hang out with them. Students room has a good atmosphere and you can also ask the professor to install something to make it cozier.
Lab members always help each other with their research. There are a lot of opportunities (if you like) to hang out with them. Students room has a good atmosphere and you can also ask the professor to install something to make it cozier.
Mutual anticipation model reproduces collective behaviour with turbulent flow
Thesis Subjects
- (M)Effects of Tension Presentation and Personal Experience on Reality and VR Sickness in Automobile VR Environment
- (M)Exploration of Soldier Crabs' Collective Behaviours on Mutual Anticipation Model in Continuous Space
- (M)Investigation of Generalization Capabilities in Asynchronously Tuned Cellular Automata
The number of
PhD Graduates
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Major employers of Graduates
- Shikoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated
- Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc.
- BOSCH
- SBC medical group
- VERISERVE
- WingArc1st Inc.
- KORG INC.
- Core Concept Technologies Inc.
- SIOS Technology, Inc.
- MOBIUS Co., Ltd.
