Okinawa International University, British and American Language and Culture Manami Sato

Education

2000, Jan ～ 2001, Dec

University of California, Berkeley, Linguistics
BA (Graduated with honors)

2002, April ～ 2003, March

Tokyo University (Research student)

2003, Sep ～ 2004, Dec

University of Hawaii, Manoa, Linguistics
MA

2005, Jan～ 2010, Aug

University of Hawaii, Manoa, Linguistics
Ph.D

Working Experiences

2020, April ～

Okinawa International University, British and American Language and Culture, Professor

2015, April ～ 2020, March

Okinawa International University, British and American Language and Culture, Associate professor

2013, Sep ～ 2015, March

Okinawa International University, British and American Language and Culture, Assistant professor

2010, Sep ～ 2013, Sep

Postdoc，Hiroshima University（Dr. Hiromu Sakai）

2013, April ～ Aug

Part-time lecturer (Intro to Psycholinguistics)，Prefectural Hiroshima University

2011, Feb ～ April

Visiting researcher, University of California, San Diego (Department of Cognitive Science, Dr. Benjamin K.Bergen)

Papers

Dissertation

Sato, M. (2010). Message in the ‘body’: Effects of simulation in sentence production. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Chair: Amy J. Schafer.

Proceedings/Journal papers

2021

  1. Niikuni, K., & Sato, M. Individual differences in sense of agency and perspective adoption in comprehending Japanese null-subject sentences. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 92(2), peer-reviewed.

    2. 2020

    1. Sato, M., Niikuni, K., Schafer, A, and Koizumi, M. (2020). Agentive versus Non-agentive Motions Immediately Influence Event Apprehension and Description: An Eye-Tracking Study in a VOS Language. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.peer-reviewed.
    2. Ono, H., Kim, J., Sato, M., Apay, T., & Koizumi, M. (2020). Syntax and processing in Seediq: A behavioral study. Journal of East Asian Linguistics. peer-reviewed.
    3. Otaki, K., Sato, M., Ono, H., Sugisaki, S., Yusa, N., Kaitapu, S., Veikune, H., Vea, P., Otsuka, Y., and Koizumi, M (2020). Proceedings of the 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. Megan M. Brown and Alexandra Kohut, 465-478. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. peer-reviewed.
    4. Ono, H., Otaki, K., Sato, M., Veikune, H., Vea, P., Otsuka, Y., and Koizumi, M. (2020). Processing syntactic ergativity in Tongan relative clause. Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA27).
    5. Akamine, S., Omine, A., Kohatsu, T., Niikuni, K., & Sato, M. (2020). Who to blame? The underlying representation of Japanese sentences with unspecified agents of blamable acts. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, p879–882.
    6. Omine, A., Akamine, S., Kohatsu, T., Niikuni, K., & Sato, M. (2020). Facial expression and body posture influence ambiguous sentence interpretation. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, p824–828.
    7. Kohatsu, T., Omine, A., Akamine, S., Niikuni, K., & Sato, M. (2020). Long time or much time? How do different languages alter the perception of temporal events? Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, p829–834.

    2019

    1. Yamada, M., Takubo, Y., Iwasaki, S., Kenan, C., Harada, S., Kibe, N., Lau, Y., Nakagawa, N., Niinaga, Y., Otsuki, T., Sato, M., Shirata, R., Lubbe, G., & Yokoyama, A (2019). Experimental Study of Inter-Language and Inter-Generational Intelligibility: Methodology and Case Studies of Ryukyuan Languages. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol 26. CSLI Publications, peer-reviewed.
    2. Ono, H., Otaki, K., Sato, M., Veikune, H., Vea, P., Otsuka, Y., Koizumi, M. (2019). AFLA Relative clause processing in Tongan: An effect of syntactic ergativity on the object preference. Proceedings of the 26the Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. peer-reviewed.
    3. Yano, M., Niikuni, K., Ono, H., Sato, M., Apay, T., Yasunaga, D., & Koizumi, M (2019). Syntax and processing in Seediq: An event-related potential study. Journal of East Asian Linguistics. peer-reviewed.

    2018

    1. Sato, M., Niikuni, K., Schafer, A, and Koizumi, M. (2018). Agent versus non-agent motions influence language production: Word order and perspective in a VOS language. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2018), pp.1031–1036. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. peer-reviewed.
    2. Sato, M.. (2018, Sep). Physical Motions with or without a Sense of Agency Influence Event Comprehension. Journal of foreign languages, 22(1),Okinawa International University, pp.17-30, peer-reviewed.

    2017

    1. Sato, M. (2017, March). Speakers of VOS and SO word order languages interpret the world differently: A gesture study with Truku (VOS) speakers. Journal of foreign languages，20(2), Okinawa International University, pp.1-14, peer-reviewed.
    2. Yano, M., Niikuni, K., Ono, H., Kiyama, S., Sato, M., Tang, A., Yasunaga, D., & Koizumi, M. タロコ語文理解実験からみる基本語順と普遍的認知特性について―事象関連電位を指標として. Proceedings of the 154th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, pp.22-27.
    3. Sato, M.ジェスチャーから読み解く言語と思考の関係：タロコ語と英語の比較を通して, 日本認知科学会第34回大会発表論文集, pp.520-524.

    2015

    1. Yin, S.，Sato, M.，Luo, Y.，Igarashi, Y.，Sakai, H. (2015). Do Chinese L2 learners of Japanese incrementally use prosodic cues recognition?:Eye−tracking evidence, Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan,19(3), pp.1-12, peer-reviewed.
    2. Sato, M., A. Schafer, & B. Bergen. (2015). Metaphor priming in sentence production: Concrete pictures affect abstract language production. Acta Psychologica, 156, pp.136-142, peer-reviewe.
    3. Sato, M. (2015, March). Physical motions influence our thought and language. Journal of foreign languages, 18(2), Okinawa International University, pp.1-13, peer-reviewed.

    2014

    1. Sakai, H., Long, S, Luo, Y., Sato, M. (2014). Computation for syntactic dependency at language-culture interface: A view from Japanese honorific processing. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 94(2), pp.179.

    2013

    1. Sato, M., Schafer, A., and Bergen, B. (2013). One word at a time: Mental representations of object shape change incrementally during sentence processing, Language and Cognition, 5(4), pp.345-373. peer-reviewed
    2. Sato, M., and Bergen, B. (2013). The case of the missing pronouns: does mentally simulated perspective play a functional role in the comprehension of person? Cognition, 127, pp.361-374. peer-reviewed.
    3. Yin, S., Sato, M., Luo, Y., and Sakai, H. (2013). Do Chinese learners of Japanese incrementally use accent information in word recognition?: Evidence from an eye-tracking study. The Technical Report of Language and Thought of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, pp.7-12.
    4. Luo, Y., Sato, M., and Sakai, H. (2013). Temporal distance between the cause and the effect affects the reading of causality sentences: Eye-tracking evidence. The Technical Report of Language and Thought of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, pp.139-144.

    2012

    1. Sato, M., Sakai, H., Wu, J., and Bergen, B. (2012). Towards a cognitive science of literary style: Perspective-taking in processing omniscient versus objective voice. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R.P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pp.959-964, peer-reviewed.
    2. Sato, M., Long, S., and Sakai, H. (2012). The cognitive representation of Japanese giving and receiving auxiliaries: Evidence from an eye-tracking study. The Technical Report of Language and Thought of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, pp.37-40.
    3. Long, S., Sato, M., & Sakai, H. (2012). Brain Response to Grammatical Aspect Mismatch: An ERP Study with Japanese Native Speakers. The Technical Report of Language and Thought of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, pp.31-36.

    2011

    1. Sato, M., Bergen, B., Wu, J., and Sakai, H. (2011). Empathy in mental simulation: Can we experience emotional events through another person’s eyes? The Technical Report of Language and Thought of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, pp.73-78.

    2010

    1. Sato, M., Hall, D., and Bergen, B. (2010). Sustainability factors of simulation perspective. The proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association,10，pp.22-32.

    2009

    1. Sato, M., and Bergen, B. (2009). Does implicit grammatical person influence perspective in mental simulation? The Technical Report of Language and Thought of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, pp.73-77.
    2. Sato, M. (2009). Incremental construction and spontaneous revision of mental imagery in Japanese sentence comprehension. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol 17. CSLI Publications, pp.487-500, peer-reviewed.

    2007

    1. Sato, M. (2007). Conceptual priming in sentence production: Effects of concrete pictures on metaphorical language. University of Hawaii, Mānoa Working Paper in Linguistics 38(8), pp.1-8, peer-reviewed.

    Invited talks

    2019

    1. Physical motion, language, and cognition, Tohoku University，2019, July 5.
    2. Acquisition of Tongan WH-questions: Eye-tracking data. University of South Pacific, Tonga, the Kingdom of Tonga, 2019, Aug 22.

    2018

    1. Interplay between language and non-linguistic information,Miyagi Gakuin Women's University，2018, Jan 31.
    2. Agent versus non-agent motions immediately influence event apprehension and description: An eye-tracking study in a VOS language, International Workshop and Related Languages: Grammar, Processing, and Revitalization. Harvard -Yenching Institute, Boston, United States, 2018, May 12.
    3. Introducing field-based psycholinguistic research: Experimental approaches to Linguistics. University of South Pacific, Tonga, the Kingdom of Tonga, 2018, Aug 8.
    4. Introducing field-based psycholinguistic research: What experimental methods enable us to see how we think?, Tonga Institute of Education , the Kingdom of Tonga, 2018, Aug 16.

    2017

    1. Language and Thought in Pantomime and Sentence Production Experiments: Comparative study of VOS and SVO languages, Organized Session，Japanese Cognitive Science Society，Kanazawa University，2017, Sep 15.
    2. Psycholinguistics goes to the field: Effects of physical actions on event apprehension and selection of voice and word order in the Truku language, The 4th Austronesian Circle Meeting of Fall 2017, University of Hawaii, United States, 2017, Oct 9.

    2015

    1. マヤ語から見た言語と思考と脳：言語と思考：ジェスチャーから探るカクチケル語話者の事象認知, Keio University, 2015, Jan 11.
    2. 「マヤの神話では時間は終わりから始まりに戻る？VOS語順を通して観る文産出のタイムコース」, Keio University, 2015, Jan 11 (Collaborators：Hiromu Sakai，Takuya Kubo，Laura Rodorigo，Hajime Ono，Mikihiro Tanaka)
    3. Language comprehension and production, Language and thought symposium, Kanazawa University, 2015, March 4.
    4. Language and thought: Evidence from mental simulation, The 99th Kagamiyama　colloquium, Hiroshima University, 2015,Feb 19.

    2014

    1. Language, thought, and brain in Mayan language, Natl. Museum of Ethnology, symposium, 2014, Dec 21.
    2. Language and thought in the field of experimental psycholinguistics, Agarie Psychology Colloquium, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, 2014, Dec 6.

    2013

    1. Interface between language processing and sociocultural cognition, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2013, June 15.
    2. Mental simulation in language understanding: How do we understand each other?, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2013, Jan 28.

    2011

    1. Can we experience emotional events through another person’s eyes? Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawaii, United States, 2011, Sep 27.
    2. Does our mind generate thoughts or does our motion/body? Cognitive Linguistics Group, University of California, San Diego, United States, 2011, April 20.

    2009

    1. Do people (re)create experiences in understanding and speaking language?: Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics approach, The 64th Kagamiyama　colloquium, Hiroshima University,　2009, Oct 16.
    2. Language processing and mental simulation, Nagoya University, 2009, Oct 13.

    2007

    1. The mental image construction over the course of sentence processing, The 8th annual meeting of Japanese education research, Hiroshima University, 2007, Nov 1.

    Presentations

    2021

    1. Akamine, S., Omine, A., Kohatsu, T., Niikuni, K., and Sato, M. (2021). Visual perception and physical action in valence word learning. The architectures of Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AMLaP Asia), Hong Kong, China. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    2. Omine, A ., Akamine, S., Kohatsu, T., Niikuni, K., and Sato, M. (2020). Facial expression and body posture influence ambiguous sentence interpretation, The architectures of Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AMLaP Asia), Hong Kong, China. [Poster, peer-reviewed].

    2020

    1. Ono, H., Otaki, K., Sato, M., Veikune, A., Vea, P., Otsuka, Y., and Koizumi, M. (2019). Relative clause processing in Tongan: an effect of syntactic ergativity on the object preference, The 26th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 26), London, Canada, 2019, May 25. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    2. Sato, M., Niikuni, K., Schafer, A., and Koizumi, M. (2019). Event perception and description are embodied: An eye-tracking study in Japanese sentence production, The 25th Meeting of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 25), Moscow, Russia, 2019, Sep 6. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    3. Niikuni, K., and Sato, M. (2019). A sense of agency influences perspective adoption in comprehending Japanese sentences with null subjects, The 83rd of the Japanese Psychological Association, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, 2019, Sep 13. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    4. Sato, M., Niikuni, K., Schafer, A., and Koizumi, M. (2019). Interactive motor activities influence perspective adoption in action-language understanding, The 21st Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2019), Canary Island, Spain, 2019, Sep 26. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    5. Otaki, K., Sato, M., Ono, H., Sugisaki, K., Yusa, N., Kaitapu, S., Veikune, H., Vea, P., Otsuka, Y., and Koizumi, M . (2019). The acquisition of Wh-questions in Tongan: A comprehension and eye-tracking study. Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL), Zurich, Switzerland, 2019, Nov 5. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    6. Otaki, K., Sato, M., Ono, H., Sugisaki, K., Yusa, N., Kaitapu, S., Veikune, H., Vea, P., Otsuka, Y., and Koizumi, M . (2019). The ergative subject preference in the acquisition of Wh-questions in Tongan. The 44th Meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development(BUCLD 44), Boston, United States, 2019, Nov 8. [Oral, peer-reviewed].

    2019

    1. Ono, H., Otaki, K., Sato, M., Veikune, A., Vea, P., Otsuka, Y., and Koizumi, M. (2019). Relative clause processing in Tongan: an effect of syntactic ergativity on the object preference, The 26th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 26), London, Canada, 2019, May 25. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    2. Sato, M., Niikuni, K., Schafer, A., and Koizumi, M. (2019). Event perception and description are embodied: An eye-tracking study in Japanese sentence production, The 25th Meeting of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 25), Moscow, Russia, 2019, Sep 6. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    3. Niikuni, K., and Sato, M. (2019). A sense of agency influences perspective adoption in comprehending Japanese sentences with null subjects,The 83rd of the Japanese Psychological Association, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, 2019, Sep 13. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    4. Sato, M., Niikuni, K., Schafer, A., and Koizumi, M. (2019). Interactive motor activities influence perspective adoption in action-language understanding, The 21st Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP 2019), Canary Island, Spain, 2019, Sep 26. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    5. Otaki, K., Sato, M., Ono, H., Sugisaki, K., Yusa, N., Kaitapu, S., Veikune, H., Vea, P., Otsuka, Y., and Koizumi, M . (2019). The acquisition of Wh-questions in Tongan: A comprehension and eye-tracking study. Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL), Zurich, Switzerland, 2019, Nov 5. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    6. Otaki, K., Sato, M., Ono, H., Sugisaki, K., Yusa, N., Kaitapu, S., Veikune, H., Vea, P., Otsuka, Y., and Koizumi, M . (2019). The ergative subject preference in the acquisition of Wh-questions in Tongan. The 44th Meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development(BUCLD 44), Boston, United States, 2019, Nov 8. [Oral, peer-reviewed].

    2018

    1. Sato, M., Niikuni, K., Schafer, A., and Koizumi, M. (2018). Agent versus non-agent motions influence language production: Word order and perspective in a VOS language, The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2018), Madison, United States, 2018, July 26. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    2. Yamada, M., Takubo, Y., Iwasaki, S., Kenan, C., Harada, S., Kibe, N., Lau, T., Nakagawa, N., Niinaga, Y., Otsuki, T., Sato, M., Shirata, R., Lubbe, G., and Yokoyama, A. (2018). Studies of Ryukyuan languages, the 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK 26), LA, United States, 2018, Nov 30. [Oral, peer-reviewed].

    2017

    1. Yano, M., Niikuni, K., Ono, H., Kiyama, S., Sato, M.,, Tang, A., Yasunaga, D., and Koizumi, M. タロコ語文理解実験からみる基本語順と普遍的認知特性について―事象関連電位を指標として. Linguistic Society of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan University, June 24. [Oral, peer-reviewed]（Awarded）
    2. Yano, M., Niikuni, K., Ono, H., Kiyama, S., Sato, M., Tang, A., Yasunaga, D., and Koizumi, M. (2017). VOS preference in Truku sentence processing: Evidence from event-related potentials, The Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2017), Maryland, United States, 2017, Nov 8. [Poster, peer-reviewed].

    2015

    1. Luo, Y., Sato, M., Wang, Y., Ito, S., and Sakai, H. Asymmetry of causal inference in reading, The 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015), Pasadena, CA, United States, 2015, July 25. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    2. Koizumi, M., Kim, J., Yusa, N., and Sato, M. The primacy of grammar in sentence processing: A case in the Kaqchikel Mayan language, The 21st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, June 18. [Poster, peer-reviewed]
    3. Luo, Y., Sato, M., and Sakai, H., Asymmetrical causal representations in order: ERP evidence, The 21st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 6月18日. [Poster, peer-reviewed]
    4. Sato, M., Tang, A., Kubo, T., Kim, J., and Koizumi, M. Documenting how Truku Seediq speakers and English speakers think and produce their languages, The 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 2015, Feb 26. [Oral, peer-reviewed].

    2014

    1. Sakai, H., Long, S., Luo, Y., and Sato, M. Computation for syntactic dependency at language-culture interface: A view from Japanese honorific processing, the Symposium of ERP indices for Language Processing in the East and the West: Cognitive Universals and Culture Dependent Variables, The 17th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP2014), Hiroshima, 2014, Sep 27. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    2. Luo, Y., Sato, M., and Sakai, H. Order and causal relatedness in causality representation: Evidence from eye-tracking, The 6th Chinese International Conference on Eye Movements, Beijing, China, 2014, May 8. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    3. Sato, M. Does word order influence how we perceive the world? Preliminary results from VOS word order of Truku language, University of Hawaii International Symposium on Linguistics, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 2014, March 7. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    4. Omaki, A., Dillon, B., Kubo, T., Sato, M., and Sakai, H. Anti-locality preference in the processing of Japanese reflexive binding, The 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ohio State University, Ohio, United States,  2014, March 14. [Poster, peer-reviewed].

    2013

    1. Long, S., Sato, M., and Sakai, H. Unfolding an event differently: An ERP study on L1 and L2 processing of grammatical aspect, The 9th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2013, July 11. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    2. Kubo, T., Sato, M., Ono, H., and Sakai, H. How do speakers think for speaking in a VOS language?, a poster presented at The 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Convention center at the Columbia, South Carolina , United States, 2013, March 21. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    3. Long, S., Sato, M., and Sakai, H. Unfolding an event differently: An ERP study on L1 and L2 processing of grammatical aspect, The 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Convention Center at the Columbia, South Carolina , United States, 2013, March 21. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    4. Shuai, Y., Sato, M., Luo, Y., and Sakai, H. Do Chinese learners of Japanese incrementally use accent information in word recognition?: Evidence from an eye-tracking study, The Annual International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL), Osaka University, 2013, Aug 2. [Oral].
    5. Luo, Y., Sato, M., and Sakai, H. Temporal distance between the cause and the effect affects the reading of causality sentences: Eye-tracking evidence, The Annual International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL), Osaka University, 2013, Aug 2. [Oral].
    6. Sato, M., Luo, Y., and Sakai, H. Real-time comprehension of beneficiary and perspective in social contexts: Eye-tracking study on Japanese give/receive auxiliary, The 19th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Marseille, France, 2013, Sep 3. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    7. Luo, Y., Sato, M., and Sakai, H. Order, temporal distance and causal relatedness in causality representation: Evidence from eye-tracking,Tokyo, Japan. International Symposium for Adolescent Brain and Mind and Self-regulation, Tokyo University, 2013, Oct 27. [Poster, peer-reviewed].

    2012

    1. Shuai, Y., Sato, M., and Sakai, H. How and when do L1 and L2 learners of Japanese use accent information in word recognition?: Eye-tracking study of artificial-word learning in Japanese, The 14th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages & Symposium on Brain and Communication (ICPEAL), Nagoya, 2012, Oct 26. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    2. Sato, M., Sakai, H., Wu, J., and Bergen, B. Towards a cognitive science of literary style: Perspective-taking in processing omniscient versus objective voice,The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012), Sapporo, 2012, Aug 2. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    3. Long, S., Tsuyuguchi, Y., Sato, M., and Sakai, H. An ERP study on L2 grammatical aspect processing in Japanese, The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012), Sapporo, 2012, Aug 2. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    4. Sakai, H., Kubo, T., Ono, H., Sato, M., and Koizumi, M. Does word order influence non-verbal event description by speakers of OS language?, The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012), Sapporo, 2012, Aug 2. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    5. Sato, M., Long, S., and Sakai, H. The cognitive representation of Japanese giving and receiving auxiliaries: Evidence from an eye-tracking study, The Annual International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL), Yamagata University, 2012, July 21. [Poster].
    6. Long, S., Sato, M., & Sakai, H. Brain Response to Grammatical Aspect Mismatch: An ERP Study with Japanese Native Speakers. The annual international workshop on Thought and Language, Yamagata University, 2012, July 22. [Poster].
    7. Sato, M., Schafer, J., & Sakai, H.. 自己／他者の行動認知におけるパースペクティブの制御, 精神機能の自己制御理解にもとづく青春期の人間形成支援学 (若手・女性研究者向け夏合宿), Atami, 2012, July 14-15. [Poster].
    8. Shuai, Y., Sato, M., Igarashi, Y., & Sakai, H. An eye-tracking study of accent information in word recognition: an artificial word learning paradigm, The 14th Annual International Conference of Japanese Society for Language Science, Nagoya, Japan, 2012, June 30. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    9. Sato, M., and Sakai, H. Does narrative mode affect perspective adoption in mental simulation?, The 12th Winter Workshop, Mechanism of Brain and Mind, Hokkaido, 2012, Jan 16. [Poster, peer-reviewed].

    2011

    1. Sato, M., Wu, J., Sakai, H., and Bergen, B. Narrative mode affects perspective adoption in sentence comprehension, The 17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Paris, France, 2011, Sep 2. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    2. Sato, M., Wu, J., Sakai, H., and Bergen, B. Empathy in mental simulation: Can we experience emotional events through another person’s eyes?, The Annual International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL), Hiroshima University, 2011, Aug 6. [Oral].
    3. Sato, M., and Schafer, A. Does our mind generate thoughts or does our motion/body? (designated Media-worthy presentation), The 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 2011, Jan 9. [Oral, peer-reviewed].

    2010

    1. Sato, M., and Schafer, A. Motion affects speakers’ message construction, The 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2010, the CUNY Graduate School & University Center, NY, United States, 2010, March 20. [Poster, peer-reviewed]. 

    2009

    1. Sato, M. The influence of Japanese ‘null-subject’ sentences on perspective in mental simulation, The 2nd International Conference of the Japanese Studies Association in Southeast Asia (JSA-ASEAN), Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2009, Oct 22. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    2. Sato, M., Hall, D., and Bergen, B. Sustainability factors of simulation in language comprehension, The Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (JCLA), Kyoto University, 2009, Sep 26. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    3. Sato, M., Hall, D., and Bergen, B. Pronouns affect perspective in mental simulation, but what about discourse?, The Annual Meeting of the Embodied & Situated Language Processing (ESLP 2009), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Holland, 2009, July 28. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    4. Sato, M., and Bergen, B. Does implicit grammatical person influence perspective in mental simulation?, The Annual International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL), Kyushu University, 2009, July 18. [Oral].
    5. Sato, M. Did you break an egg or just see it? Verb and gender differences affect the time course in constructing mental image, The 8th East West Center International Graduate Student Conference, University of Hawaii, United States, 2009, Feb 14. [Oral].

    2008

    1. Sato, M., and Schafer, A. Verb types influence mental imagery in Japanese sentence comprehension, The 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of North Carolina, North Carolina, United States, 2008, March 14. [Poster, peer-reviewed].
    2. Sato, M. Temporal dynamics of mental image construction in Japanese language comprehension, The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), the Palmer House at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 2008, Jan 3. [Oral, peer-reviewed].

    2007

    1. Sato, M. Incremental construction and spontaneous revision of mental imagery in Japanese sentence comprehension, The 17th JK Linguistics Conference, University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA), CA, United States, 2007, Nov 9. [Oral, peer-reviewed].
    2. Sato, M., Schafer, A., and Bergen, B. Incremental construction of mental images in Japanese sentence comprehension, The 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), CA, United States, 2007, March. [Poster, peer-reviewed].

    2006

    1. Sato, M., Schafer, A., and Bergen, B. Source domain priming in metaphorical sentence production, The 8th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), CA, United States, 2006, Nov 3. [Oral].
    2. Sato, M., Schafer, A., and Bergen, B. Effects of picture perception on the expression of abstract concepts in sentence production, The 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, the CUNY Graduate School & University Center, NY, United States, 2006, March 23. [Oral, peer-reviewed]. 
    3. Sato, M., Schafer, A., and Bergen, B. Conceptual metaphors in sentence production, Department of Linguistics Tuesday Seminar, University of Hawaii, United States, 2006, March 14. [Oral].
      4. Grant・Scholarship

      2019 ～ 2022

      【Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)】 (PI: Manami Sato)
      [17,810,000 yen]

      2019 ～ 2023

      【Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)】 (Co-Investigator) (PI：Tohoku University, Masatoshi Koizumi)
      [1,625,000 yen]

      2016 ～ 2019

      【Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)】(PI: Manami Sato)
      [8,970,000 yen]

      2016 ～ 2018

      Toyota grants（Co-Investigato）(PI：Masahiro Yamada)

      2015 ～ 2018

      【Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A)】(Co-Investigato) (PI：Tohoku University, Masatoshi Koizumi)
      [2,860,000 yen]

      2015

      Okinawa International University, research grant (PI: Manami Sato) [828,000 yen]

      2014

      【Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)】(Co-Investigato)(PI：Tohoku University, Masatoshi Koizumi)
      [650,000 yen]

      2014

      Okinawa International University, research grant (PI: Manami Sato) [401,000 yen]

      2011,Feb-April

      Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for young researcher Visit the University of California, San Diego as a visiting researcher
      [857,112 yen]

      2010,March

      Linguistics Department Endowment Fund, University of Hawaii at Maona: the CUNY conference presentation for Dissertation research [$400]

      2009,Dec

      National Science Foundation: Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
      [$6,316]

      2009,Nov

      Linguistics Department Endowment Fund, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Data collection for Dissertation research
      [$250]

      2009,Sep

      JSA-ASEAN Travel Grant (waiver of the registration fees, $150) [$150]

      2009,Aug

      Graduate Student Travel Grant from Center for Japanese Studies
      [$998.20]

      2009,July

      Student Travel Grants from Mental Architecture for Processing and Leaning of Language (MAPLL) [$120]

      2009,April

      Linguistics Department Endowment Fund, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Perspective in simulation project [$400]--declined

      2009,March

      Arts and Sciences Student Research Award
      [$720]

      2008,Nov

      Linguistics Department Endowment Fund, University of Hawaii at Mānoa: Picture naming research for Language loss project [$250]

      2008,April

      Dai Ho Chun Scholarship [$1287.15]

      2008,March

      Student Travel Grants from the CUNY Graduate School & University
      [$250]

      2007,May

      Dai Ho Chun Scholarship [$1000]

      2007,March

      Department of Linguistics Endowment Fund, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa [$100]

      2006,March

      Graduate Student Organization travel fund, [$860]

      Scholarship

      2005,Jan～2009,May

      Graduate Division Pacific Asian Scholarship (Tuition waiver), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

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