Principal Investigator

Minoru Asada (Professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) - Research leader

Co-Investigator

Eiichi Naito (Research Manager in NICT CiNet) - fMRI imaging of cognitive body representation
Masayuki Hirata (Professor in Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University) - Simultaneous MEG/EEG recording and analyses of brain-brain interaction, and its comparison with large scale simulation
Koh Hosoda (Professor in Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University) - Design of the body for developmental simulation, Development of Robot Platforms
Hiroyuki Okada (Professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Tamagawa University)
Hiroki Mori (Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) - Large scale simulation of brain development with realistic fetus and infant body
Yukie Nagai (Specially Appointed Associate Professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) - Modeling the emergence of mirror neuron system and the analysis of developmental change in the dynamics of caregiver-infant interaction
Mitsuru Kikuchi (Professor in Research Centre for Child Mental Development, Kanazawa University) - Simultaneous recording of the brain interaction between parents and children using MEG
Hisashi Ishihara (Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) - Development of realistic child robot as a tool of psychological experiment
Hideyuki Takahashi (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) - Psychological, physiological and neurological investigations for human-human, and human-robot interaction
Shuhei Ikemoto (Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University) - Development of robot platform as a tool of imaging experiment

Specially appointed lecturer

Tomoyo Morita (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) - fMRI data acquisition and analysis

Specially appointed assistant professor

Takashi Ikeda (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) - Functional brain imaging with EEG / MEG
Nobutsuna Endo (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) - Development of robot platform including speech mechanism
Matthias Rolf (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) - Development of calculation model and robot experiment
Hiroki Yokoyama (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) - Analysis and development of reinforcement learning algorithm

Specially appointed assistant

Hiroko Takaoka (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University)