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Shiro Ojima

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■Affiliation
Assistant Professor (Non-tenured), Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University


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■Research Fields
Neuroscience of language, first and second language acquisition, applied brain science


■Degrees
B.Ed., B.A. (Honors), Ph.D.


■Education & Experience
April, 1994 - March, 1998 Bachelor of Education, Education, Okayama University (Prof. Shigenobu Takatsuka), Okayama, Japan
March, 1998 - December, 1998 Bachelor of Arts with Honors, Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne (Prof. Tim McNamara), Melbourne, Australia
April, 1999 - January, 2005 Doctor of Philosophy, Language & Linguistics, University of Essex (Prof. Roger Hawkins), Colchester, U.K.
October, 2001 - March, 2005 ERP/MEG training, Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (Prof. Ryusuke Kakigi), Okazaki, Japan
April, 2005 - March, 2010 Post-doc, Language Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Prof. Hiroko Hagiwara), Tokyo, Japan


■Employment
April, 2004 - March, 2005 Part-Time Contract Researcher, Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences
April, 2005 - March, 2010 Research fellow, Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
April, 2005 - March, 2010 Visiting Research fellow, Department of Language Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
April, 2010 - present Assistant Professor (non-tenured), Graduate School of Human Relations (Global COE CARLS), Keio University


■Honors
Study-Abroad Scholarship, Heiwa-Nakajima Foundation (March, 1997)
Honors in Applied Linguistics, Melbourne University (December, 1998)
University Scholarship, University of Essex (May, 2000)
Overseas Research Students Award, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom (July, 2000)


■Journal Articles (First Author)

Ojima, S., Nakata, H., & Kakigi, R. (2005) An ERP study of second language learning after childhood: effects of proficiency. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17, 1212-28.

Ojima, S., Nakamura, N., Matsuba-Kurita, H., Hoshino, T., & Hagiwara, H. (in press) Neural correlates of foreign-language learning in childhood: a 3-year longitudinal ERP study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.


■Journal Articles (Co-author)

Inui, K., Wang, X., Qiu, Y., Nguyen, B. T., Ojima, S., Tamura, Y., Nakata, H., Wasaka, T., Tran, T. D., & Kakigi, R. (2003) Pain processing within the primary somatosensory cortex in humans. u>European Journal of Neuroscience 18, 2859-66.

Tamura, Y., Hoshiyama, M., Inui, K., Nakata, H., Wasaka, T., Ojima, S., Inoue, K., & Kakigi, R. (2004) Cognitive processes in two-point discrimination: an ERP study. Clinical Neurophysiology 115, 1875-84.


■Conference Proceedings

Al-Hamad, M., Al-Malki, E., Casillas, G., Franceschina, F., Hawkins, R., Hawthorne, J., Karadzovska, D., Kato, K., Liszka, S., Lozano, C., Ojima, S., Okuwaki, N., & Thomas, E. (2002) Interpretation of English tense morphophonology by advanced L2 Speakers. In: Foster-Cohen SH, Ruthenberg T, Poschen ML. (eds.), Eurosla Yearbook: Volume 2, pp. 49-69. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


■Doctoral Dissertation

Ojima, S. (2004) Theory and evidence in second language research: the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese. Doctoral dissertation, University of Essex.


■Reviewer Experience

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