Staff Profile
Rui Nouchi
Rui Nouchi
Name
Rui Nouchi
Affiliation
Tohoku University, Institute of Development, Aging & Cancer
Smart Ageing International Research Center
Research Fellow(PD) of Japan Society for Promotion of Science
Research Theme
Human memory
-Adaptive memory
-Autobiographical memory

Cognition & Aging
-Improvement of cognitive functions in the elderly
--(e.g. cognitive training, fitness training, & video game training)

Cognition & Emotion
-Mood congruent memory
-Depression & memory
Career
Meijigakuin University (BA, 2003)
Chuo University (MA, 2005)
Chuo University (Ph.D, 2008)
Researcher in Chuo University
Post-doctoral fellow in Tohoku University
Research Fellow(PD) of Japan Society for Promotion of Science
My HP
Selected publications
36. Kambara T, Tsukiura T, Shigemune Y, Kanno A, Nouchi R, Yomogida Y, Kawashima R
"Learning-dependent changes of associations between unfamiliar words and perceptual features: a 15-day longitudinal study"
Language Sciences, in press
35. Sekiguchi, A., Sugiura, M., Taki, Y., Kotozaki, Y., Nouchi, R., Takeuchi, H., Araki, T., Hanawa, S., Nakagawa, S., Miyauchi, CM., Sakuma, A., Kawashima, R.
"Brain structural changes as vulnerability factors and acquired signs of post-earthquake stress"
olecular Psychiatry, in press
34. Tsukiura, T., Shigemune, Y.,Nouchi, R., Kambara, T., Kawashima, R.
"Insular and hippocampal contributions to remembering people with an impression of bad personality"
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, in press
33. Tachibana, Y., Yoshida, Y., Ichinomiya, M., Nouchi, R., Miyauchi, C., Takeuchi, H., Tomita, N., Arai, H., Kawashima, R.
" A GO intervention program for enhancing elementary school children's cognitive functions and control abilities of emotion and behavior: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial"
Trials, 13:8, 2012
32. Takeuchi, H., Taki, Y., Hashizume, H., Sassa, Y., Nagase, T., Nouchi, R., Kawashima, R.
" The association between resting functional connectivity and creativity"
Cerebral Cortex, ##, pp.##-##., in press
31. Taki, Y., Thyreau, B., Hashizume, H., Sassa, Y., Takeuchi, H., Wu, K., Kotozaki, Y., Nouchi, R., Asano, M., Asano, K., Fukuda, H., Kawashima, R.
" Linear and curvilinear correlations of brain white matter volume, fractional anisotropy, and mean diffusivity with age using voxel-based and region-of-interest analyses in 246 healthy children"
NeuroImage, ##, pp.##-##., in press
30. Taki, Y., Hashizume, H., Thyreau, B., Sassa, Y., Takeuchi, H., Wu, K., Kotozaki, Y., Nouchi, R., Asano, M., Asano, K., Fukuda, H., Kawashima, R.
" Linear and curvilinear correlations of brain gray matter volume and density with age using voxel-based morphometry with the Akaike information criterion in 291 healthy children"
NeuroImage, ##, pp.##-##., in press
29. Taki, Y., Thyreau, B., Hashizume, H., Sassa, Y., Takeuchi, H., Wu, K., Kotozaki, Y., Nouchi, R., Asano, M., Asano, K., Fukuda, H., Kawashima, R.
" Sleep duration during weekdays affects hippocampal gray matter volume in healthy children"
Neuroimage, 560, pp.471-475, 2012
28. Takeuchi, H., Taki, Y., Sassa, Y., Hashizume, H., Sekiguchi, A., Nagase, T., Nouchi, R., Fukushima, A., Kawashima, R.
" Regional gray and white matter volume associated with Stroop interference: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry"
NeuroImage, ##, pp.##-##., in press
27. Takeuchi, H., Taki, Y., Sassa, Y., Hashizume, H., Sekiguchi, A., Nagase, T., Nouchi, R., Fukushima, A., Kawashima, R.
" White matter structures associated with emotional intelligence: evidence from diffusion tensor imaging"
Human Brain Mapping, ##, pp.##-##., in press
26. Takeuchi, H., Taki, Y., Hashizume, H., Sassa, Y., Nagase, T., Nouchi, R., Kawashima, R.
" Cerebral blood flow during rest associates with general intelligence and creativity"
PLoS ONE, ##, pp.##-##., in press
25. Taki, Y., Hashizume, H., Sassa, Y., Takeuchi, H., Asano, M., Asano, K., Kotozaki, Y., Nouchi, R., Kai, W., Fukuda, H., Kawashima, R.
" Correlation among body height, intelligence, and brain gray matter volume in healthy children"
NeuroImage, 59: 1023-1027, 2012
24. Nouchi, R.
" Does the combination hypothesis account for the the benefit of the survival judgment task using the memory load paradigm study."
Japanese Psychological Research, in press
23. Nouchi, R.., Taki,Y., Takeuchi, H., Hashizume, H., Akitsuki, Y., Shigemune, Y., Sekiguchi, A., Kotozaki, Y. Tsukiura, T., Yomogida, Y., Kawashima, R.
" Brain training game improves executive functions and processing speed in the elderly"
PLoS ONE, 7(1): e29676, 2012
22. Takeuchi, H., Taki, Y., Hashizume, H., Sassa, Y., Nagase, T., Nouchi, R.., Kawashima, R.
"Effects of training of processing speed on neural systems"
Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp.12139-12148, 2011
21. Nouchi, R.
"The effect of aging on the memory enhancement of the survival judgment task"
Japanese Psychological Research, #, pp.###-###. accepted
20. Nouchi, R.
" Temporal distance of autobiographical memory and mood congruent encoding"
Journal of General Psychology, #, pp.###-###. revised
19. Nouchi, R.
" Individual differences of visual imagery ability in the benefit of a survival judgment task"
Japanese Psychological Research, 53, pp.319-326. 2011
18. Hine, K., Nouchi, R.., Itoh, Y.
" Influence of Subjective Difficulty on the Degree of Configural and Featural Processing in Face Recognition"
Japanese Psychological Research, 53, pp.246-257. 2011
17. Nouchi, R.
" The effect of generating future episode on mood congruent memory"
Japanese Journal of Applied Psychology, 36, pp.134-135. 2011
16. Takeuchi H, Taki Y, Hashizume H, Sassa Y, Nagase T, Nouchi R, Kawashima R.
" Failing to deactivate: the association between brain activity during a working memory task and creativity."
Neuroimage, 55, pp.681-687, 2011
15. Nouchi R, IIda T, Abe Y, Inoue T, Hirano O Y, Noda F.
"Mental health beliefs and help-seeking behavior for Depression and Schizophrenia among Peruvian in Japan and Peru."
Psyche & Culture, 9巻, pp.###-###. 2010
14. Takano Y, Nouchi R, Takano H, Kojima A, Sato S
"Daietary life style of Japanese cpllege students: Relationship between dietary life, mental health and eating disorders."
The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 80, pp.321-329. 2009
13. Nouchi R, Hyodo, M
"The mood congruent effect on emotional episode sentence."
The Japanese Journal of Research on Emotions , 17, pp.49-55. 2009
12. Noda F, Kurabayashi L, Takahashi T, Nouchi R, Ukawa K, Yoshida N, Kondo S, Noguchi M.
"Mental health beliefs and help seeking for Schizophrenia and depressive disorders among Cambodians in Japan and Cambodia."
Psyche & Culture, 8, pp.154-167. 2009
11. Nouchi R, Hyodo M
"The difference of retrieval process of episode recall tasks influenced mood congruent memory."
The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 6, pp.75-83. 2009
10. Nouchi R
"The similarity between retrieving past events and imaging future events: using task facilitation."
Japanese Journal of Applied Psychology, 33, pp.138-139. 2008
9. Nouchi R
"The phenomenal characteristics of autobiographical memory and other episode for emotional events."
Japanese Journal of Applied Psychology, 33, pp.32-33. 2007
8. Nouchi R, Takano Y, Hyodo M
"The effect of importance and vividness of recalled episodes on mood-congruent encoding using autobiographical elaboration task"
Japanese Journal of psychology, 78, pp.478-485. 2007
7. Nouchi R, Inoue T
"A new community psychological approach to Japanese school: The role of school counseling through MEASURE perspective."
Japanese Journal of Community Psychology , 11, pp.14-25, 2007
6. Nouchi R, Hyodo M
"The influence of episode recognition on mood congruent memory in autobiographical recall task."
The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 5, pp.71-78. 2007
5. Nouchi R, Hyodo M
"The congruence between the emotional valences of recalled episodes and mood states influences the mood congruence effect."
Japanese Journal of psychology, 78, pp.25-33. 2007
4. Nouchi R
"Autobiographical recall task influenced mood congruent effect in natural occurred mood condition."
The Japanese Journal of Research on Emotions, 14, pp.54-63, 2007
3. Nouchi, R.
"The change of help-seeking behaviors in mental health across ethnicities: Latin American and Cambodian migrants in Japan "
Proceeding of 1st World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry. 1, pp.1-4. 2006
2. Nouchi R, Hyodo M
"The influence of recall for autobiographical and non-autobiographical episodes on mood congruent memory."
The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology , 4, 15-23. 2006
1. Sakakibara S, Nouchi R, Iida T, Inoue, T
"Help seeking behaviors of forein people in Japana"
Psyche & Culture, 5, pp.29-35. 2006
Grat
Grant in Meiji Yasuda Life Foundation of Health and Welfare
Grant in Center of Developmental Education and Resrarch
KAKENHI Grant for PhD
Grant of Nippon Welfare Foundation
Award
Award in Center of Developmental Education and Resrarch
Award of Gakuinkai in Chuo University
Best poster presentation award in Japanese Association of Counseling Science
Representative of the master's students in Chuo University