Basic Information

Academic Degree

• Ph.D.(Kyoto University)
• M.A.(Kyoto University)

Academic Resume (Graduate Schools)

• Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Division of Behavioral Studies, 修了
• Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Division of Behavioral Studies, 修了

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• Kyoto University, Faculty of Letters, Division of Behavioral Studies, 卒業

Research History

• From May 2025, To Mar. 2026

  University of Birmingham, Department of Psychology, Visiting researcher
• From Apr. 2022, To Present

  Kyoto University, Institute for the Future of Human Society, Assistant Professor
• From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022

  Kyoto University, Kokoro Research Center, Assistant professor
• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2025

  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Center for Information and Neural Networks, Researcher
• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2021

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Researcher (PD)
• From Apr. 2017, To Mar. 2019

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Researcher (DC2)

Profile

• Profile

  社会的場面における選好の決定に関する2つの問題：1) ヒトにおいて普遍的に観察される長期的な恋愛関係はどのようにして構築・維持されるか（恋愛の認知神経科学研究）、2) 芸術作品の鑑賞における美的体験の背後にはどのような認知・神経メカニズムの関与が見られるか（神経美学研究）という問いに対し、心理学実験と脳イメージングを中心に、多様なアプローチを用いて解決を試みる研究を行っています。

Language of Instruction

• Japanese
• English

ID,URL

• J-Global ID

  201901013401698647

• Researcher number

  40869434

• External link

  https://ifohs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/archives/member/ryuhei-ueda

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/ryuheiueda

Research

Research Topics, Overview of the research

• Research Topics

  Cognitive and neural mechanisms of romantic relationship building and maintenance

• Overview of the research

  We have different kinds of interpersonal relationships in our daily lives. Among them, romantic relationships are one of the closest relationships, which have attracted evolutionary and social psychologists. I have been working on its cognitive and neural mechanisms using psychological experiments and neuroimaging techniques; specifically, I am interested in how we build and maintain the exclusive and long-term relationship with a significant other.

Research Interests

• fMRI
• romantic relationships
• face recognition
• feelings of beauty
• art appreciation
• self-control
• interpersonal relationship
• decision making
• social cognition

Research Areas

• Life sciences, Basic brain sciences, social neuroscience
• Humanities & social sciences, Cognitive sciences, social cognition
• Humanities & social sciences, Experimental psychology, cognitive psychology

Papers

• Impact of advice from generative AI on moral judgment

  Masumi Ichimiya; Ryuhei Ueda; Nobuhito Abe

  Journal of Psychology and AI, 20 May 2026

  
• Reduced neural specificity for a romantic partner in the nucleus accumbens over relationship duration

  Kenji Fujisaki; Ryuhei Ueda; Ryusuke Nakai; Nobuhito Abe

  Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience, 23 Dec. 2025

  
• How the brain represents a romantic partner: dissociable roles of the nucleus accumbens and anterior insula

  Kenji Fujisaki; Ryuhei Ueda; Ryusuke Nakai; Nobuhito Abe

  18 Feb. 2026

  
• Trait judgments of medieval Japanese illustrated portraits

  Ryuhei Ueda; Atsunobu Suzuki; Akira Takagishi; Chikahiko Suzuki; Kumiko Nagai

  Perception, May 2025, Peer-reviewed

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• Neural Processing of Facial Attractiveness and Romantic Love: An Overview and Suggestions for Future Empirical Studies

  Ueda, R.

  Frontiers in Psychology, 14 Jun. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

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• Are implicit attitudes toward dishonesty associated with self-serving dishonesty? Implications for the reliability of the IAT

  Hirokazu Hatta; Ryuhei Ueda; Hiroshi Ashida; Nobuhito Abe

  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, May 2022

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• Neural Representations of the Committed Romantic Partner in the Nucleus Accumbens

  Ryuhei Ueda; Nobuhito Abe

  Psychological Science, Dec. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

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• 親密な異性間関係の維持に関わる認知神経機構：能動的・自動的抑制機構の相互作用的関係性

  上田 竜平

  心理学評論, Aug. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

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• Social neuroscience of cooperation

  Ryuhei Ueda

  心理学評論, 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Executive control and faithfulness: only long-term romantic relationships require prefrontal control

  Ryuhei Ueda; Kuniaki Yanagisawa; Hiroshi Ashida; Nobuhito Abe

  Experimental Brain Research, 01 Mar. 2018, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Implicit attitudes and executive control interact to regulate interest in extra-pair relationships

  Ryuhei Ueda; Kuniaki Yanagisawa; Hiroshi Ashida; Nobuhito Abe

  COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE, Dec. 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Trading of dynamic interaural time and level difference cues and its effect on the auditory motion-onset response measured with electroencephalography

  Christian F. Altmann; Ryuhei Ueda; Benoit Bucher; Shigeto Furukawa; Kentaro Ono; Makio Kashino; Tatsuya Mima; Hidenao Fukuyama

  NEUROIMAGE, Oct. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Automatic honesty forgoing reward acquisition and punishment avoidance: a functional MRI investigation

  Mei Yoneda; Ryuhei Ueda; Hiroshi Ashida; Nobuhito Abe

  NEUROREPORT, Sep. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Auditory mismatch negativity in response to changes of counter-balanced interaural time and level differences

  Christian F. Altmann; Ryuhei Ueda; Shigeto Furukawa; Makio Kashino; Tatsuya Mima; Hidenao Fukuyama

  Frontiers in Neuroscience, 06 Jul. 2017, Peer-reviewed

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• Auditory Mismatch Negativity in Response to Changes of Counter-Balanced Interaural Time and Level Differences

  Christian F. Altmann; Ryuhei Ueda; Shigeto Furukawa; Makio Kashino; Tatsuya Mima; Hidenao Fukuyama

  FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE, Jul. 2017, Peer-reviewed

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• Reduced orbitofrontal cortical volume is associated with interdependent self-construal

  Shinobu Kitayama; Kuniaki Yanagisawa; Ayahito Ito; Ryuhei Ueda; Yukiko Uchida; Nobuhito Abe

  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Jul. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• The neural basis of individual differences in mate poaching

  Ryuhei Ueda; Hiroshi Ashida; Kuniaki Yanagisawa; Nobuhito Abe

  SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE, 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

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• Asymmetric Effect of Expression Intensity on Evaluations of Facial Attractiveness

  Ryuhei Ueda; Kana Kuraguchi; Hiroshi Ashida

  SAGE Open, 01 Nov. 2016, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

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Misc.

• Neural representations for romantic partner and intimate friends: an fMRI study using multi-voxel pattern analysis

  藤崎健二; 上田竜平; 上田竜平; 中井隆介; 阿部修士

  日本心理学会大会発表抄録集, 2025

  
• 恋人関係と友人関係を支える神経基盤の比較:機能的磁気共鳴画像法を用いた検討

  藤崎健二; 上田竜平; 上田竜平; 蘆田宏; 阿部修士

  日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会プログラム・抄録集, 2024

  
• マルチボクセルパターン解析の基礎と心理学研究における活用

  上田竜平

  バイオメカニズム学会誌, 2025, Invited

  
• How do we choose a romantic partner? Progress and prospect of psychological and neuroscience studies of human mate choice

  Ueda Ryuhei

  Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 01 Dec. 2024, Peer-reviewed

  

Presentations

• 恋心の認知神経科学

  上田竜平

  第25回日本ヒト脳機能マッピング学会, 25 Feb. 2023, Invited

  
• 「恋人」の神経表象−社会的報酬遅延課題を用いた検討

  上田竜平; 阿部修士

  第3回ヒト脳イメージング研究会, 06 Sep. 2019

  
• 競合する同性の外見的魅力に基づく異性へのアプローチの調整〜マッチングアプリ的場面での検討〜

  塩川史崇; 上田竜平; 蘆田宏

  電子情報通信学会 ヒューマンコミュニケーション基礎研究会, 08 Mar. 2019

  
• 浮気欲求の顕在的・潜在的抑制機構の関係性

  上田竜平; 柳澤邦昭; 蘆田宏; 阿部修士

  日本基礎心理学会第36回大会, 01 Dec. 2017

  
• 一夫一妻的恋愛関係の維持に関わる認知神経基盤−交際期間に依存した前頭葉領域による浮気欲求の能動的抑制

  上田竜平; 柳澤邦昭; 蘆田宏; 阿部修士

  日本認知科学会第34回大会, 15 Sep. 2017

  
• 浮気欲求への抵抗：潜在的・顕在的抑制機能の認知的説明

  上田竜平; 柳澤邦昭; 蘆田宏; 阿部修士

  関西心理学会第128回大会, 03 Nov. 2016

  

Awards

• 20 Oct. 2020

  The 84th Japanese Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Excellent Presentation Award
• 16 Mar. 2019

  The 21st Japan Human Brain Mapping Society Annual Meeting, Young Researcher Presentation Award
• 03 Nov. 2016

  The 128th Japanese Kansai-region Psychological Society Annual Meeting, Excellent Presentation Award
• 02 Jul. 2015

  The 17th Japan Human Brain Mapping Society Annual Meeting, Young Researcher Presentation Award

External funds: Kakenhi

• 長期的関係を共にする恋愛パートナーに関連した脳情報表現の縦断計測

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

  Basic Section 90030:Cognitive science-related

  Kyoto University

  上田 竜平

  From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2031, Adopted

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-26K03249/
• Comprehensive examination of neural processing underlying the appropriate regulation of romantic interest

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

  Basic Section 90030:Cognitive science-related

  Kyoto University;National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

  Ryuhei Ueda

  From 01 Apr. 2020, To 31 Mar. 2024, Project Closed

  対人関係;恋愛関係;脳イメージング;社会的認知;実験心理学;認知科学;社会神経科学;fMRI;恋愛;意思決定

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-20K20157/
• Age-related differences in the neural mechanisms underlying the socioemotional effect on human long-term memory

  Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)

  Transformative Research Areas, Section (I)

  Kyoto University

  月浦 崇

  From 19 Nov. 2020, To 31 Mar. 2025, Granted

  記憶;加齢;環境;非侵襲的脳機能画像計測;神経心理学;社会的文脈;感情;非侵襲的脳機能計測;非侵襲的脳画像計測

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PLANNED-20H05802/
• 主観的視覚経験の構成過程をモデル化する

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

  Basic Section 10040:Experimental psychology-related

  Kyoto University

  三好 清文

  From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2028, Granted

  周辺視;色;意識;計算モデル;fMRI

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-25K00896/
• A Multidisciplinary Historical Analysis of Personal Appearance Impressions--With a Focus on Japan

  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

  Medium-sized Section 1:Philosophy, art, and related fields

  The University of Tokyo

  永井 久美子

  From 27 Jun. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2028, Granted

  肖像;人物造形;印象判断;日本美術史;日本文学

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-25K21831/

Education

Teaching subject(s)

• From 01 Apr. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  Integrated Liberal Arts and Science with Small Group Seminar s (Humanities and Social Sciences p2)

  H754, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 4
• From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025

  ILAS Seminar

  Z001, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  Design of Cognitive Functions

  X465, Spring, Graduate School of Engineering, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2024

  ILAS Seminar

  Z001, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023

  Psychology (Special Lectures)

  7131, Fall, Graduate School of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023

  Design of Cognitive Functions

  X465, Fall, Graduate School of Engineering, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023

  Brain and Neuroscience(Neuro- and Physiological Psychology)

  7239, Fall, Faculty of Education, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023

  Psychology (Special Lectures)

  7138, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
• From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023

  Psychology (Seminars)

  7140, Year-long, Faculty of Letters, 4
• From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2023

  Brain and Neuroscience(Neuro- and Physiological Psychology)

  7239, Fall, Graduate School of Education, 2

Other educational achievements

• In cooperation with the Department of Psychology in the Graduate School of Letters, I am prividing supports for undergraduate students in writing their graduation theses and graduate students in writing their master's theses.

Part-time lecturer

• From 01 Oct. 2026, To 31 Mar. 2027

  神経・生理心理学

  後期, 奈良国立大学機構, 生活環境学部