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Human information science, cognitive neuroscience

Makio Kashino received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in psychophysics from the University of Tokyo in 1987, 1989, and 2000, respectively, and joined NTT in 1989. After serving as Director of the Human Information Science Laboratory in NTT Communication Science Laboratories (2010-16), he became an NTT Fellow in 2018 and Head of Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory in 2019 (-24).

The academic positions he held include a visiting scientist of the University of Wisconsin (1992-93), a specially-appointed professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2006-21) and a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo (2020-24). He is an adjunct member of the Science Council of Japan and a full member of Brain Century Promotion Conference.

He has been engaged in elucidating the functional and neural mechanisms that enable flexible and sophisticated information processing without awareness, especially in auditory perception, multisensory interactions, sensorimotor interactions, and communication. Recently, he has expanded his research to include people with developmental disorders, athletes, and musicians, studying cognitive diversity and plasticity from the perspective of the dynamic interaction of brain, body and environment, and attempting to use the findings to solve real-world problems.

Dr. Kashino received the Science and Technology Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2016. He is the author of two books on auditory illusions (in Japanese).