Department of Rehabilitation for Sensory Functions

Research Topics

• Stuttering: pathphysiology, evaluation, treatment
• Tinnitus: treatment
• Language: development and its disorders, learning, evaluation, treatment, training
• Deaf-blind: information retrieval assistance for those who can read hand signing with touch

Subtopics

• Voice, speech and their disorders
• Tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT), Sound-Cognitive Therapy
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Sign language (letter signing)

Research methods

• Functional brain mapping with near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) of hemoglobin
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
• Electrophysiology and psychoacoustics
• Robotics

Japan Society of Stuttering and other Fluency Disorders (JSSFD), International Fluency Association (IFA), The Japan Society of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Society for Neuroscinece (SfN), Japan Neuroscience Society, Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ), Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Society of Japan, Japan Audiological Society,

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