Yushi Sugimoto

About Me

I am a lecturer at the University of Osaka. My current intererst is computational neurolinguistics: Investigating human sentence processing in the brain by leveraging computational models.

Before joining the University of Osaka, I was a post-doctoral research fellow at University of Tokyo (Yohei Oseki’s lab). I had obtained my Ph.D in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. During my Ph.D years, I lost my advisor (Sam Epstein). However, I got lucky to have Acrisio Pires and Marlyse Baptista as my advisors. Since my Ph.D period, I’ve been collaborating with my colleagues, Alan Ke and Andrew McInnerney.

Research Interests

• Computational Neurolinguistics: naturalistic methods; cognitive modeling; fMRI, MEG, EEG
• Syntax: generative grammar, Creole Grammar/Formation

News

• [Sept. 2025] A paper was presented at ISBFC.
• [April. 2025] I’m going to give a talk on recent developments in minimalism at KEIO linguistic Colloquium.
• [April. 2025] An abstract was accepted to CogSci2025 as a poster presentation.
• [Mar. 2025] Three papers were presented at NLP2025.
• [Feb. 2025] My research grant application [JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists] was accepted!
• [Feb. 2025] A paper was accepted for Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
• [Oct. 2024] An abstract was accepted to SNL2024 as a poster presentation.

Publications

Presentations

Recent Conference Presentations

• Itsuki Hamada, Yushi Sugimoto, Yohei Oseki, Michiru Makuuchi, and Hiromu Sakai. 2025. Neural correlates of prediction in language comprehension: An MEG study on Japanese classifier-noun processing International Symposium on Brain Function and Cognition: Neural Codes of Language and Action. Waseda University, Tokyo. Sept 9th, 2025
• Shinnosuke Isono*, Kohei Kajikawa*, Yushi Sugimoto*, Masayuki Asahara, and Yohei Oseki. 2025. Exploring spatial and temporal dynamics of language comprehension in the brain with CCG. The 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, US. July 31st, 2025 [*co-first authors, poster]
• Yushi Sugimoto, Ryo Yoshida, Hyeojeong Jeong, Akitake Kanno, Masatoshi Koizumi, and Yohei Oseki. 2025. BCCWJ-MEG: Development of Japanese Magnetocencephalography Data. The Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing Nagasaki, Japan, March 12, 2025. [poster]
• Yushi Sugimoto, Ryo Yoshida, Hyeojeong Jeong, Akitake Kanno, Masatoshi Koizumi, and Yohei Oseki. 2024.Investigating Syntactic Attention in the brain. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, October 24-26, 2024. [poster]

Recent Talks

• Modeling Syntactic Composition in the Brain with Computational Models. ISBFC Neural Codes Seminar 2025, September 3rd, 2025, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan
• Current Issues in Minimalism : GK, MC and beyond?, May 10-11th, 2025, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
• Merge of Functional Heads: A Theory of Amalgamation, Internatioanl Research Network for the Human Language Faculty, JSPS Core-to-Core Program, December 7th, 2024, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
• Modeling Syntactic Composition in the brain with Small/Syntactic Language Models, talk at Hiromu Sakai's lab meeting, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Novermber 5th, 2024
• Recombination of Functional Features: A Late-Insertion-Based Exoskeletal Approach to Creoles (with Marlyse Baptista), Penn Syntax Lab meeting, Pennsylvania, US, April 7th, 2023 [online]
• BCCWJ-MRI/MEG. AI Yotta International Symposium. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, March 10th, 2023 [online]

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