Student written Research Laboratory Guidebook 2023Nagaoka University of Technology

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Theoretical Life Science Laboratory

Associate Professor / NISHIYAMA Yuta

Associate ProfessorNISHIYAMA Yuta

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Supervisor

Associate Professor / Yuta NISHIYAMA
Prof. Nishiyama is a very friendly person in terms of personality, so all students can talk to him freely at any moment. Furthermore, when preparing presentations and thesis, he carefully examines the contents and gives appropriate advice and guidance.

Research Content

We do empirical and theoretical researches on unusual cognition/behavior in unknown/changeable environments, through which aiming to understand usual states of them. Most members address how the wholeness such as self-awareness and temporo-spatial perception emerges from multisensory signals that are hardly distinguished one another. We develop wide variety of novel experiments and use them to reveal a relationship between life and the world. They may extend the concept of interfaces in an engineering sence.

Experiment on self-awareness using VR

A Day in the Lab

Whe have meeting to review literature and to discuss study progress every week. Other than that, every member conducts their research in their ways. The research theme is decided after repeated discussions with Prof. Nishiyama on matters of student's interest. Some are always in the lab, others are studying in their own homes or elsewhere, so they can do their research according to their lifestyle. In addition, events with other laboratories are held several times a year.

Student room with a view

Thesis Subjects

  • (M)Study on diversity of rule-extended substitution system
  • (M)Study on behavioral plasticity by repeating corkscrew-style digging of soldier crab, Mictyris guinotae
  • (M)Effects of altered self-body awareness on pain perception

The number of
PhD Graduates

0

Major employers of Graduates

  • Sizebook KK
  • Shikoku Electric Power CO., INC
  • AJS Inc.
  • Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc.
  • BOSCH
  • SBC medical group
  • VERISERVE
Writer : SAWADA Hikaru, Information and Management Systems Engineering
(national Institue of Technology, Akashi College)