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After studying engineering in Japan (B.Eng., Mathematical engineering, 1986, and M.Eng. Information engineering, 1988, from the University of Tokyo), I received a Ph.D. in psychology and linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1993. I joined Cognitive Anthropology Research Group (lead by Prof. Stephen Levinson) at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands as a postdoc (1993-1994), then became a Senior Researcher (1994-2003) in the Language and Cognition department of the Institute. At the Institute, I founded and lead the Gesture Project, one of the research foci of the Institute, for ten years. Since 2003, I have been a faculty member in the University of Bristol and then in the University of Birmingham. Since 2013, I have been the Professor of Psychology of Language at the University of Warwick. More.
