Kansai University

Event-related potentials to emotional incongruence in dogs using non-invasive EEG

Abstract Previous behavioral and autonomic studies suggest that dogs are sensitive to their human emotional expressions, yet the neural mechanisms underlying how such information is processed across modalities remain unclear. This study investigated whether dogs exhibit different...

Evaluating the Short-Form Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale in a Japanese university EFL context: internal-structure evidence and score-interpretation boundaries

Abstract Foreign language classroom anxiety remains a central construct in applied linguistics, but brief instruments require context-specific evidence before their scores are used for substantive interpretation. This study examined the eight-item Short-Form Foreign Language Clas...

Children as citizen scientists at EXPO 2025 clarify geometry-dependent feeding mechanics in mushroom corals

Abstract Ciliary-mucus feeding of free-living Fungiidae (mushroom corals), in which coordinated ciliary currents transport food particles toward the oral aperture, remains poorly characterised despite over a century of descriptive study; understanding the physical determinants of...