{"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. Upon the award ceremony during the 48th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (July 24, 2025 in Niigata), the lecture on \u201cLearning to vocalize by socially communicating with others\u201d was given by her with honor.<\/p>\n<p>The Tsukahara Memorial Award is administered by the Brain Science Foundation, which promotes neuroscience and supports researchers. It is presented to junior researchers who have conducted outstanding and original research in the field of life sciences.<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>\n\u2022\u3000<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oist.jp\/research\/research-units\/nmcpu\/news\"style=color:blue>OIST Neural Mechanisms of Critical Periods Research Unit<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022\u3000<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1092137\"style=color:blue>EurekAlert! (Press release on the award)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><wbr><\/p>\n<style>\n  .wp-two-images {\n    display: flex;\n    gap: 12px; \n    justify-content: center;\n    align-items: flex-start;\n    flex-wrap: wrap; \n  }\n  .wp-two-images img {\n    height: 250px;\n    width: auto; \n    max-width: 45%;\n    object-fit: cover;\n    display: block;\n  }\n  @media (max-width: 767px) {\n    .wp-two-images {\n      flex-direction: column;\n      align-items: center;\n    }\n    .wp-two-images img {\n      height: auto;\n      width: 100%;\n      max-width: 100%;\n    }\n  }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-two-images\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250311-yazaki-sugiyama-yoko-012-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2016-06-06-Zebra-Finch-Curious-tilt-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 develop [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250311-yazaki-sugiyama-yoko-012-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Xf4o-8zO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33099,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32972\/revisions\/33099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}