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  • November 19, 2025: [Web Report] Commemorative Talk by Professor Dr. Shun-ichi Amari In Honor of the TU Berlin Honorary Doctorate

    Friday January 23rd, 2026
    On November 19, 2025, the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN) at the University of Tokyo co-hosted a special hybrid commemorative event celebrating Professor Dr. Shun-ichi A […]
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  • When Specialization Creates Exclusion: The Dangers of a Compartmentalized Medical System

    Friday November 14th, 2025
    Drawing on real-world cases, the study highlights the harms of compartmentalized healthcare and proposes three essential reforms How comprehensive is our healthcare system, and who is being left behin […]
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  • August 26-28, 2025: UTokyo IRCN Symposium @Harvard Report

    Monday October 27th, 2025
    This report was written by Ms. Mengyuan Chen, Dr. Yi-Yuan Huang, Dr. Kanako Iwasaki, Dr. Masahiro Kiyota, Dr. Shota Murai, Dr. Masahito Nangaku, Dr. Nana Nishio, Ms. Atsuko Oba, Dr. Takeshi Sawada, Dr […]
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  • July 2-5, 2025: IRCN Neuro-inspired Computation Course 2025_Web Report

    Wednesday October 1st, 2025
    Overview Neuro-inspired Computation Course Program (PDF) From July 2 to 5, 2025, WPI-IRCN (International Research Center for Neurointelligence), the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and the Tianqiao & Chr […]
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  • August 27,2025: [NEWS] Conferment Ceremony for the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon Held in Boston for Dr. Takao Hensch

    Tuesday September 2nd, 2025
    Dr. Takao Hensch, IRCN Director (Professor at Harvard University’s Center for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as well as at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical […]
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  • July 18, 2025: [Report] EUCYS Award-Winning Students Visit IRCN

    Monday August 18th, 2025
    On July 18, 2025, WPI-IRCN at the University of Tokyo hosted four university students as part of an official tour organized by the European Commission and the Delegation of the EU. The students are wi […]
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Research

Nov 14, 2025

When Specialization Creates Exclusion: The Dangers of a Compartmentalized Medical System

Drawing on real-world cases, the study highlights the harms of compartmentalized healthcare and proposes three essential reforms

How comprehensive is our healthcare system, and who is being l ...

  • General Anesthesia in Early Infancy Accelerates Brain Development

  • Baby talk is real: Adults speak differently to babies in at least 10 different languages

  • Supporting cognitive flexibility in autistic individuals, Exploring noninvasive brain stimulation as a tool to enhance cognitive adaptability

  • AI overconfidence mirrors human brain condition A similarity between language models and aphasia points to diagnoses for both

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Events

December 20-21, 2025: Commemorative Symposium for the 41st International Prize for Biology “Current Breakthrough Topics in Neurobiology”

[About the Symposium]

The International Prize for Biology was instituted in April of 1985 by the Committee on the International Prize for Biology. It aims to commemorate the sixty-year reign ...

  • December 8, 2025: Symposium by WPI-IRCN UTokyo ✕ JEWEL Project "Infant Language Development Research in the 21st Century ーIntegrating Insights from Behavioral, Neuronal, and Computational Sciences"

  • November 19, 2025: Commemorative Talk by Professor Dr. Shun-ichi Amari — In Honor of the TU Berlin Honorary Doctorate —

  • July 2-5, 2025: [Call for Participants] IRCN and Chen Institute Joint Course on Neuro-inspired Computation

  • October 29, 2024: The first Symposium for Alliance for Brain Science [UTokyo-Teikyo-RIKEN] "A Venture into the Universe of the Athlete's Brain from a Cognitive Neuroscience"

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February 10, 2026: The 6th International Symposium of the Institute for AI and Beyond (Dr. Kenichi Ohki, IRCN Deputy Director & Dr. Yukie Nagai, IRCN Project Professor)

The 6th International Symposium of the Institute for AI and Beyond, the University of Tokyo will be held on 14:30-18:30 (JST), Tuesday,10 February 2026.
We are pleased to announce that, from I ...

  • February 1, 2026: Kavli IPMU / ELSI / IRCN Joint Public Lecture - "A Question of Origins"

  • November 2–3, 2025: “Everyone’s Brain World 2025: Super Diversity” Exhibition of the ASD Sensory Experience Simulator and Multimodal Emotion Estimation System (The Cognitive Developmental Robotics Laboratory)

  • October 18, 2025: Experiencing “Neurointelligence” – WPI-IRCN at the University of Tokyo Homecoming Day 2025

  • August 27,2025: [NEWS] Conferment Ceremony for the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon Held in Boston for Dr. Takao Hensch

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