A scientific understanding of the mind is not possible only from a physical understanding of the brain. The first step in a scientific understanding of the mind involves objective description and analysis of how the mind works within the home or within the context of society and linking this to the brain functions. The humanities and social sciences, including psychology, philosophy, economics, literature, history, and law, have long histories of describing people's behavior and how their minds work, each discipline from its own perspective. In Brain-Mind-Society Research Center, our mission is to develop, drawing on the wisdom accumulated in these fields, a scientific understanding of the mind within a new dimension, based on new brain science methods and computational theory. We seek to contribute to the peace and prosperity of humanity by applying the results of this research to education and social system design.

We have an infant laboratory that stores a pool of more than 3,000 experimental collaborators, where studies are being conducted on subjects ranging from infants to children. We have a perspective that the development of cognitive functions might base on the foundation of language development, and attempt to elucidate the relationship between experimental psychology, comparative cognitive science, and neuroscience methodologies. That is characteristic of the Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute, which is recognized internationally.