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• 2025.12.16 The 5th International Symposium will be held in February.
• 2025.05.26 We will organize a workshop at ICONIP2025.
• 2024.12.09 Kick-Off International Symposium will be held in February.
• 2024.11.29 The 3rd Administrative Group Meeting was held.
• 2024.11.19 The 4th Area Seminar was held.
• 2024.10.30 The 3rd Area Seminar was held.
• 2024.10.28 The 2nd Area Seminar was held.
• 2024.10.26 Nishimura (A03-1 Group Co-I) gave a lecture at a home education class for the PTA of Kyoto Konoe Junior High School.
• 2024.10.21 A manuscript by Takuma Sumi (A02 Group), Hideaki Yamamoto (area representative), Yuichi Katori (A01-1 Group PI), and Ayumi Hirano-Iwata (A02-3 Group PI) was published in the Vacuum and Surface Science journal of The Japan Society of Vaccum and Surface Science.
• 2024.10.21 A manuscript by Yutaka Hirata (A04-2 Group PI) was published in the Vacuum and Surface Science journal of The Japan Society of Vaccum and Surface Science.
• 2024.10.08 A manuscript by Hideaki Yamamoto (area representative), Yuichi Katori (A01-1 Group PI), Ayumi Hirano-Iwata (A02-3 Group PI), and Shigeo Sato (A02-1 Group Co-I) was published in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics.
• 2024.10.01 Research and commentary articles by Morimoto (A02-2 Group Co-I), Hiramoto (A02-3 Group), Nishimura (A03-1 Group Co-I), and Katsurabayashi (A03-2 Group Co-I) were published in the Vacuum and Surface Science journal of The Japan Society of Vaccum and Surface Science.
• 2024.09.26 The 1st model animal experiment workshop was held.
• 2024.09.25 Hideaki Yamamoto (area representative) delivered an invited talk at AsiaNANO 2024.
• 2024.09.09 The 1st Summer Camp (the 2nd Area Meeting) was held.
• 2024.08.31 Kaneyasu Nishimura (A03-1 Group Co-I) received the Encouragement Award from the Division of Pharmacology and Drug Therapeutics of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan and delivered an award lecture at the 2024 Biofunction and Drug Discovery Symposium.
• 2024.08.29 Yamamoto (Area Representative) gave a lecture at Sapporo Kiyota High School.
• 2024.08.14 The 3rd Research-in-Progress Meeting was held at Matsui’s (A01-2 group PI) laboratory.
• 2024.08.09 Hideaki Yamamoto (area representative) delivered an invited talk at The International Workshop on Complex Systems and Their Interdisciplinary Applications.
• 2024.08.09 Fujiwara (A01-1 Group Co-I) organized an international workshop on complex systems science and its interdisciplinary applications.
• 2024.08.07 Special Lecture “Future Intelligence: Creating New Intelligence through the Fusion of the Brain, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence” will be held at Future University Hakodate on Sep. 7.
• 2024.08.05 A manuscript by Kaneyasu Nishimura (A03-1 Group Co-I) and Yoshito Masamizu (A03-1 Group PI), Hironobu Osaki (A03-1 Group Co-I) was published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits.
• 2024.07.30 A manuscript by Teppei Matsui (A01-2 Group PI) was published in Cerebral Cortex.
• 2024.07.29 The briefing session for Publicly Offered Research was held on July 29. Thank you for your participation.
• 2024.07.16 The 2nd Administrative Group Meeting was held.
• 2024.07.16 An online briefing session for Publicly Offered Research will be held on July 29.
• 2024.07.14 Yuya Sato (A02-3 Group) received the Student Poster Award at the M&BE11.
• 2024.07.07 Kaneyasu Nishimura (A03-1 Group Co-I) received the Poster Award at The Forum of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences 2024.
• 2024.07.03 The 2nd Research-in-Progress Meeting was held at Matsui’s (A01-2 group PI) laboratory.
• 2024.06.26 A manuscript by Haruyuki Kamiya (A03-2 Group PI) was published in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience.
• 2024.06.24 Hideaki Yamamoto (area representative) delivered an invited talk at FENS 2024.
• 2024.06.20 The outcome of a collaborative study by the Katori Group (A01-1), Yamamoto Group (A02-1), and Hirano Group (A02-3) was featured on the YouTube channel “SUGUWAKA Academia”
• 2024.06.17 Satoshi Moriya (A02-1 Group Co-I) delivered an invited talk at the UPC Roundtable.
• 2024.06.17 Hideaki Yamamoto (area representative) delivered an invited talk at the UPC Roundtable.
• 2024.05.21 A preprint by Matsui (A01-2 Group PI) and Hayashi (A01-1 Group Co-I) was posted on bioRxiv.
• 2024.05.17 The 1st Area Seminar was held.
• 2024.05.13 The 1st Research-in-Progress Meeting was held at Matsui’s (A01-2 group PI) laboratory.
• 2024.05.11 Yamamoto (Area Representative) received the Research Encouragement Award 2024 from the Miyagi Industrial Science Promotion Foundation.
• 2024.05.10 The 1st Area Meeting was held.
• 2024.04.25 A manuscript by Yutaka Hirata (A04-2 Group PI) and Hirotsugu Okuno (A04-2 Group Co-I) was published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.
• 2024.04.25 A preprint by Monma (A02-1 Group), Hideaki Yamamoto (Area Representative), Naoya Fujiwara (A01-1 Group Co-I), Murota (A02-3 Group), Satoshi Moriya (A02-1 Group Co-I), Ayumi Hirano-Iwata (A02-3 Group PI), and Shigeo Sato (A02-1 Group Co-I) was posted on arXiv.
• 2024.04.23 A manuscript by Haruyuki Kamiya (A03-2 Group PI) was published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits.

Research objectives and background

The human brain, despite being composed of the seemingly unstable biological elements known as neurons, demonstrates the ability to perform advanced information processing autonomously and adaptively with remarkable energy efficiency. Understanding the information processing architecture of the brain is a critical interdisciplinary challenge spanning biology, engineering, and information science. This Research Area aims to pioneer a new academic discipline to unravel the brain's information processing mechanisms through in vivo and in vitro experiments, formulate the findings in mathematical models, and explore their potential applications in systems applications. The achievements herein would deepen our understanding of the nervous system and also lead to a more efficient, robust, and adaptable information and communication technology that supports next-generation super-smart societies.