{"id":32972,"date":"2025-08-26T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/?p=32972"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:38:30","slug":"20250826_yazaki-sugiyama_ircnaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/news\/20250826_yazaki-sugiyama_ircnaf","title":{"rendered":"August 26, 2025: [NEWS] Dr. Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama, IRCN Affiliated Faculty (OIST Professor), Receives the 39th (2024) Nakaakira Tsukahara Memorial Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama, IRCN Affiliated Faculty (OIST Professor), has received the 39th (2024) Nakaakira Tsukahara Memorial Award. Her research on \u201cNeural mechanisms of vocal learning during developmental critical periods\u201d was highly acclaimed. 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