Ryuta Kawashima
| Ryuta Kawashima | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 23, 1959 Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Fields | neuroscientist |
| Alma mater | Tohoku University |
| Known for | Appearances in the Brain Training/Brain Age series of video games for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS. |
Ryuta Kawashima (川島 隆太 Kawashima Ryūta?, born May 23, 1959) is a Japanese neuroscientist known for his appearances in the Brain Training/Brain Age series of video games for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS.
Kawashima was born May 23, 1959 in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. In the 1970s, he enrolled in Tohoku University. After graduating with an M.D. at the school of medicine, he emigrated to Sweden to become a guest researcher at the famed Karolinska Institutet. He then moved back to Tohoku and is now a resident Professor with tenure. He is famous in Japan and is a former member of Japan's National Council, concerning Language and Culture.
One of his primary research topics is mapping the regions of the brain to faculties such as emotion, language, memorization, and cognition. Kawashima is trained in neurophysiology and is an expert on brain imaging. His other primary topic involves applying this information to aid children to develop, aging people to retain, and patients to recover their learning facilities. As mentioned earlier, he is the host of the famous Brain Training game series. He received a lot of attention from the media when he refused a 15 million euro salary (about 21 million dollars) from the game company. According to Kawashima, one should only get this amount of money when one has worked for it. He finally accepted a salary of 70000 euros a year; the rest of the money he would use to fund his research.
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