Nobuhito Abe

Nobuhito Abe

Professor

Specialty field：Cognitive Neuroscience

I’ve used neuroimaging techniques and neuropsychological assessments to investigate the cognitive nature of human behavior both in healthy individuals and brain-damaged patients. My major research focus is brain mechanisms of honesty and dishonesty.

Biography

1999
B.A., Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University (–2003)
2003
M.S., in Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine; Thesis: Dissociable roles of prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in deception (–2005)
2005
Ph.D., in Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine; Dissertation: Neural basis of human deceptive behavior: evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychology (–2008)
2005
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Researcher Academic History (–2008)
2008
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
2008
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine (–2010)
2010
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University (–2012)
2012
Assistant Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University (–2013)
2013
Program Specific Associate Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University (–2019)
2019
Associate Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University (–2022)
2022
Associate Professor, Kyoto University Institute for the Future of Human Society (–2024)
2024
Professor, Kyoto University Institute for the Future of Human Society

Books/Papers

Papers
https://researchmap.jp/nobuhitoabe/published_papers
Books/ Other publications
https://researchmap.jp/nobuhitoabe/books_etc
Presentations
https://researchmap.jp/nobuhitoabe/presentations

Award

2015
International Contributions to Psychology; Awards for Distinguished Early and Middle Career Contributions (The Japanese Psychological Association)
2008
Presidential Prize, Tohoku University