Towards an integrated understanding of “Mind-Brain-Body” interactions, our lab focuses on various cognitive functions by using multiple research methods.
Neural mechanisms of emotion, subjective feelings, and autonomic activities; interoception; psychophysiological assessment of stress states; anxiety, depression, somatic symptom disorder, and autonomic disorders; and the sense of agency in psychiatric disorders.
Functional brain imaging and neuropsychological studies of emotion, theory of mind, facial recognition, and social interactions. Cognitive deficits in developmental disorders.
Functional brain imaging and neuropsychological studies of the frontal lobe and higher-order cognitive functions, including episodic memory encoding and retrieval, prospective memory, episodic future thinking, mind wandering, mental time travel, false memory, and monitoring.
Neurological studies of cognitive deficits following neurodegenerative diseases associated with proteinopathy including dementia.