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  MORISHIMA, Yasunori

   Tokunin Kyoju (Professor by Special Appointment)

   Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
■ Academic Background
1. 1996/05
Degree Acquisition
University of Colorado, Ph.D
2. 1992/05
Degree Acquisition
University of Colorado, M.A.
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■ #Professional Background
1. 2015/04~2019/03 Director, Admissions Center, International Christian University
2. 2014/04~2015/03 Chair, Admissions Center, International Christian University
3. 2010/04~2012/03 Director, Academic Planning Center, International Christian University
4. 2010/04~2012/03 Chair, Dept. of Psychology, International Christian University
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■ #Present Specialized Fields
Experimental psychology (Key Word:Psychology of Language,Text Comprehension, specifically Second Language Processing,Cognitive Psychology) 
■ #Main Course Titles
Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Language
■ #Books and Articles
1. Book Can science explain everything?   (Single) 2020/12
2. Book Introduction to Contemporary Psychology   (Collaboration) 2020/05
3. Book where is God in a Coronavirus World?   (Collaboration) 2020/05
4. Book Why is it Difficult to Master a Foreign Language?   (Single) 2015/12
5. Article the Effects of Mental Imagery on Moral Dilemmas in a Second Language   (Collaboration) 2023/05
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■ #Academic Conference Presentation
1. 2019/11 Neurological Evidence of Differential Allocation of Cognitive Resources during Comprehension in a First Language and a Second Language (Workshop on Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning)
2. 2017/07 Active Search or Automatic Activation?: A Study on Unheralded Pronoun Resolution in a Second Language (The 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse)
3. 2017/03 Allocation of the Cognitive Resources to the Processes of Unheralded Pronoun in a Second Language (The First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-1))
4. 2016/08 Cognitive resource allocation and its effects in text comprehension in a second language. (International Congress of Psychology)
5. 2016/07 Failure of inhibitory control in the “theory of mind” reasoning in second-language text comprehension. (The 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse)
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■ #Lectures
1. 2006 An implementation of socially-intelligent agents providing emotional support and its application.
2. 2006 Elaboration processes for causal bridging inferences in text comprehension.
3. 2004 The role of affect and sociality in the agent-based collaborative learning system.
4. 2004 Toward an actualization of social intelligence in human and robot collaborative systems.
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■ #Academic Society Memberships
1. 2004~ Society for Text and Discourse
2. 2002~ Cognitive Science Society
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■ Educational Achievements
● Matter that should be mentioned specially in others educational activity
1. 2007/09~2009/03 "Director, Academic Planning Center, 2007/9-2009/3. Established the foundational structure of the Center, including advising methods and policies and annual activities."
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■ #Research Topics, Funded Research, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
1. 2021/04~  The effects of cognitive workload on inference processes during comprehension in a second language  (Key Word : )
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■ #Committees and Societies
1. 2018/04/01~2019/03/31 National Personnel Authority Specialist
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■ #Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number
20365521