• RIKEN
• RIKEN Center for Brain Science (RIKEN CBS)
• Laboratory for Language Development, Senior Team Leader

Press releases

• Mothers don't speak so clearly to their babies
• Learning dialects shapes brain areas that process spoken language
• Survival of the fittest: Linguistic evolution in practice(eurekalert)
• Study shows Japanese infants hear foreign words according to Japanese language rules by 14 months
• Imaging study sheds light on neural origins of baby talk

Supplemental Material

• Supplemental Material to Igarashi JASA 2013.
• Igarashi, Y., Nishikawa, K., Tanaka, K., & Mazuka, R. (2013). Phonological theory informs the analysis of intonational exaggeration in Japanese infant-directed speech. The Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 134(2), 1283-1294.

Presentations

• "Exploring the brain through infant language development" as part of the 2011 RIKEN "Human society and science: Brain and mind" event held at the Marunouchi Building Hall (November 26, 2011)(Youtube)