Education

2021

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2006

PhD, Psychological and Behavioural Science

London School of Economics and Political Science

         (Dissertation title: The role of cultural dynamics in the construction of human mental capacities)

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MA, Psychology (Behavioral and Evolutionary Neuroscience)

Cornell University, US

BSc with Greatest Honors, Psychology

University of Lethbridge, Canada

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Technical Diploma in Spatial Design

Kuwasawa Design School, Japan

Research positions

2017

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Research programmer

Division of Cerebral Integration

National Institute for Physiological Sciences

Okazaki, Japan

Publications

Uchiyama R & Muthukrishna M. (in press). Cultural evolutionary neuroscience. In J Chiao, S Li, B Turner, SY Lee-Tauler, B Pringle (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience and Global Mental Health. Oxford University Press. [PsyArXiv]

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Uchiyama R & Muthukrishna M. (2019). Archetypes are a poor primitive for a theory of mental representations. Psychological Inquiry, 30. 87–92. [PDF]

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Smolla M, Invernizzi E, Bazhydai M, Casoli M, Deffner D, Faria GS, Jones N, Kanwal J, Staehler AM, Uchiyama R. (2018). Second annual workshop of the Association of Early-Career Social Learning Researchers in St Andrews, Scotland. Evolutionary Anthropology, 27, 184-187. [PDF]

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Finlay BL & Uchiyama R. (2017). The timing of brain maturation, early experience and the human social niche. In J. Kaas (Ed.), Evolution of Nervous Systems, 2nd Edition, Vol. 3. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press. [PDF]

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Finlay BL & Uchiyama R. (2015). Developmental mechanisms channeling cortical evolution. Trends in Neurosciences, 38, 69–76. [PDF]

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Manuscripts in preparation

Uchiyama R, Spicer R, & Muthukrishna M. (in prep). The cultural evolution of genetic heritability.

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Pham TQ, Yoshimoto T, Niwa H, Takahashi H, Uchiyama R, Anderson AK, Sadato N, & Chikazoe J. (in prep). The vision-to-value pathway captured through convergence of fMRI and neural network modeling of cortical responses.      

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Conference presentations

2019

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2018

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2018

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2017

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2016

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2015

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Poster— Uchiyama R & Muthukrishna M. "The cultural evolution of cultural learning". Early-career Social Learning Researchers workshop (Lepizig, Germany)

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Talk— Uchiyama R & Muthukrishna M. "General intelligence as an emergent product of cultural complexity: Explaining the Flynn Effect".

Cultural Evolution Society (Tempe, AZ, USA)

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Poster— Uchiyama R & Muthukrishna M. "Testing the Cultural Brain Hypothesis using phylogenetic path analysis".

Early-career Social Learning Researchers workshop (St Andrews, Scotland, UK)

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Talk— Uchiyama R & Muthukrishna M. "Testing the cultural brain hypothesis". Cultural Evolution Society inaugural conference (Jena, Germany)

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Poster— Uchiyama R & Edelman S. "Narrative-mediated transmission of causal knowledge".

Emergent Meaning: Neural, Social, & Computational Perspectives (Bethlehem, PA), a workshop associated with Cognitive Science Society (Philadelphia, PA, US)
 

Poster— Uchiyama R & Finlay BL. "Situating social learning in an evolutionarily conserved program of brain development".

Mechanisms of Learning in Social Contexts, a workshop at ICDL-EPIROB (Providence, RI, US)

Organization

2019–ongoing

2015

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2014–2015

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LSE PBS Deep Reading Seminar

Founder of a PhD student-centered seminar in which we invite prominent researchers for discussion about their work 

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Cognitive and evolutionary approaches to human culture

Lead organizer and panel moderator of a cross-disciplinary symposium (March 12, 2015, at Cornell University) – http://cogevo.weebly.com/

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Collective Behavior Study Group, Cornell University

Co-founder and organizer of an inter-departmental graduate student journal club and speaker series – http://collectivebehavior.weebly.com/

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Teaching and outreach

Course Design

Co-designed with another graduate student the full syllabus for HD 6400–Emergent Collective Behavior, offered by the Department of Human Development, Cornell University (Spring 2014)

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Teaching Assistantships

• London School of Economics—

MSc Social and Public Communication (Martin Bauer & Bradley Franks, 2018–2020), Foundations of Psychological Science (Michael Muthukrishna, 2018–2019)
• Cornell University—

Developmental Psychology (Michael Goldstein, 2014)

Computational Psychology (Shimon Edelman, 2015)

Introduction to Biopsychology (Tim Devoogd, 2015)

Psychology of Language (Morten Christiansen, 2016)

Human Perception (David Field, 2016)

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Neuroanatomy instruction

Managed brain dissection wet labs and neuroanatomy tutorials for PSYCH4250–Cognitive Neuroscience (Barbara Finlay), Cornell University, 2014–2015

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Neuroscience outreach

2014–2016, Assistant Curator for the Wilder Brain Collection, Cornell University

         Sample coverage [ media ] [ youtube ] (Oct 7, 2016)

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Translated and co-translated publications (non-academic)

Books

• The Album, BNN Publishing, 2005

• Japanese Motion Graphic Creators [映像作家100人], BNN Publishing, 2006

• Design Tide: A Message From Tokyo, BNN Publishing, 2006

• GAS BOOK 24: Hideki Inaba "~NEWLINE", Gas as Interface, 2006

• Logo a Lot, BNN Publishing, 2007

• Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2008, BNN Publishing, 2008

• Think Globally, Act Locally. Think Locally, Act Globally., Bueno! Books, Tokyo, 2008

• Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2009, BNN Publishing, 2009

• Printed Matter in Fashion, BNN Publishing, 2009 

• The Front Line of Fashion: 100 Japanese Fashion Brands, BNN Publishing, 2009

• Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2010, BNN Publishing, 2010

• Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2011, BNN Publishing, 2011

• Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2012, BNN Publishing, 2012

• Graphic Fashion, BNN Publishing, 2012

• Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2013, BNN Publishing, 2013

• Poster Graphics, BNN Publishing, 2013

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Print Periodicals 

• SIM, issue 3, Asukashinsha Publishing, 2003

• Massage, issues 3 & 4, skratch.jp, 2004 

• SAL magazine, issues 10–12 & 14, Daiichi Kosho, 2003-2005

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Online Periodicals

• salmagazine.org, issues 1–11, 2004-2005