2023年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
2023年のイグノーベル賞は、科学者が岩をなめる理由、逆さ言葉の達人の脳活動、教師と学生の退屈の関係、同じ語を何度も何度も繰り返したときに感じる違和感の研究など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
科学者が岩をなめる理由
野外地質調査の実務に残る、感覚的な確認方法を扱った話題。
Jan Zalasiewicz, for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks. REFERENCE: “Eating Fossils,” Jan Zalasiewicz, The Paleontological Association Newsletter, no. 96, November 2017. WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Jan Zalasiewicz
- 受賞者
- Jan Zalasiewicz
- 分野
- 化学・地質学部門
逆さ言葉の達人の脳活動
言葉を逆向きに話す能力が、脳の処理としてどう見えるかを調べた研究。
María José Torres-Prioris, Diana López-Barroso, Estela Càmara, Sol Fittipaldi, Lucas Sedeño, Agustín Ibáñez, Marcelo Berthier, and Adolfo García, for studying the mental activities of people who are expert at speaking backward. REFERENCE: “Neurocognitive Signatures of Phonemic Sequencing in Expert Backward Speakers,” María José Torres-Prioris, Diana López-Barroso, Estela Càmara, Sol Fittipaldi, Lucas Sedeño, Agustín Ibáñez, Marcelo L. Berthier, and Adolfo M. García, Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 10621, 2020. <doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67551-z> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: María José Torres-Prioris, Adolfo García
- 受賞者
- Maria Jose Torres-Prioris, Diana Lopez-Barroso, Estela Camara, Sol Fittipaldi, Lucas Sedeno, Agustin Ibanez, Marcelo Berthier, Adolfo Garcia
教師と学生の退屈の関係
教える側の退屈が、学ぶ側の退屈にどう伝わるかを調べた研究。
Katy Tam, Cyanea Poon, Victoria Hui, Wijnand van Tilburg, Christy Wong, Vivian Kwong, Gigi Yuen, and Christian Chan, for methodically studying the boredom of teachers and students. REFERENCE: “Boredom Begets Boredom: An Experience Sampling Study on the Impact of Teacher Boredom on Student Boredom and Motivation,” Katy Y.Y. Tam, Cyanea Y. S. Poon, Victoria K.Y. Hui, Christy Y. F. Wong, Vivian W.Y. Kwong, Gigi W.C. Yuen, Christian S. Chan, British Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 90, no. S1, June 2020, pp. 124-137. <doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12309> REFERENCE: “Whatever Will Bore, Will Bore: The Mere Anticipation of Boredom Exacerbates its Occurrence in Lectures,” Katy Y.Y. Tam, Wijnand A.P. Van Tilburg, Christian S. Chan, British Journal of Educational Psychology, epub 2022. <doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12549> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Christian Chan, Katy Y.Y. Tam, Wijnand A.P. Van Tilburg
- 受賞者
- Katy Tam, Cyanea Poon, Victoria Hui, Wijnand van Tilburg, Christy Wong, Vivian Kwong, Gigi Yuen, Christian Chan
- 分野
- 教育部門
同じ語を何度も何度も繰り返したときに感じる違和感の研究
Chris Moulin, Nicole Bell, Merita Turunen, Arina Baharin, and Akira O’Connor for studying the sensations people feel when they repeat a single word many, many, many, many, many, many, many times. REFERENCE: “The The The The Induction of Jamais Vu in the Laboratory: Word Alienation and Semantic Satiation,” Chris J. A. Moulin, Nicole Bell, Merita Turunen, Arina Baharin, and Akira R. O’Connor, Memory, vol. 29, no. 7, 2021, pp. 933-942. <doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1727519> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Chris Moulin, Akira O’Connor
- 受賞者
- Chris Moulin, Nicole Bell, Merita Turunen, Arina Baharin, and Akira O’Connor
- 分野
- 文学部門
死んだクモを機械のつかみ具にする
クモの脚の構造をそのままグリッパーとして使う発想を実験した研究。
Te Faye Yap, Zhen Liu, Anoop Rajappan, Trevor Shimokusu, and Daniel Preston, for re-animating dead spiders to use as mechanical gripping tools. REFERENCE: “Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators,” Te Faye Yap, Zhen Liu, Anoop Rajappan, Trevor J. Shimokusu, and Daniel J. Preston, Advanced Science, vol. 9, no. 29, 2022, article 2201174. <doi.org/10.1002/advs.202201174> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Te Faye Yap and Daniel Preston
- 受賞者
- Te Faye Yap, Zhen Liu, Anoop Rajappan, Trevor Shimokusu, Daniel Preston
- 分野
- 機械工学部門
左右の鼻の穴に同じ本数の毛があるか
遺体を使って、鼻毛の左右差という細かい問題を数えた研究。
Christine Pham, Bobak Hedayati, Kiana Hashemi, Ella Csuka, Tiana Mamaghani, Margit Juhasz, Jamie Wikenheiser, and Natasha Mesinkovska, for using cadavers to explore whether there is an equal number of hairs in each of a person’s two nostrils. REFERENCE: “The Quantification and Measurement of Nasal Hairs in a Cadaveric Population,” Christine Pham, Bobak Hedayati, Kiana Hashemi, Ella Csuka, Tiana Mamaghani, Margit Juhasz, Jamie Wikenheiser, and Natasha Mesinkovska, International Journal of Dermatology, vol. 61, no. 11, November 2022, pp. e456-e457. <doi.org/10.1111/ijd.15921> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Christine Pham, Natasha Mesinkovska, Margit Juhasz, Kiana Hashemi, Tiana Mamaghani
- 受賞者
- Christine Pham, Bobak Hedayati, Kiana Hashemi, Ella Csuka, Tiana Mamaghani, Margit Juhasz, Jamie Wikenheiser, Natasha Mesinkovska
- 分野
- 医学部門
電気を使う箸やストローと味の変化
食器側から味覚を変えられるかを調べた、食体験の研究。
Homei Miyashita and Hiromi Nakamura, for experiments to determine how electrified chopsticks and drinking straws can change the taste of food. REFERENCE: “Augmented Gustation Using Electricity,” Hiromi Nakamura and Homei Miyashita, Proceedings of the 2nd Augmented Human International Conference, March 2011, article 34. <doi.org/10.1145/1959826.1959860> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Homei Miyashita, Hiromi Nakamura
- 受賞者
- Homei Miyashita, Hiromi Nakamura
- 分野
- 栄養学部門
魚の繁殖行動が海水の混合に与える影響
小さな生物活動が海の物理にどれほど影響するかを測った研究。
Bieito Fernández Castro, Marian Peña, Enrique Nogueira, Miguel Gilcoto, Esperanza Broullón, Antonio Comesaña, Damien Bouffard, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, and Beatriz Mouriño-Carballido, for measuring the extent to which ocean-water mixing is affected by the sexual activity of anchovies. REFERENCE: “Intense Upper Ocean Mixing Due to Large Aggregations of Spawning Fish,” Bieito Fernández Castro, Marian Peña, Enrique Nogueira, Miguel Gilcoto, Esperanza Broullón, Antonio Comesaña, Damien Bouffard, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, and Beatriz Mouriño-Carballido, Nature Geoscience, vol. 15, 2022, pp. 287–292. <doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00916-3> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Bieito Fernandez Castro, Beatriz Mouriño-Carballido, Alberto Naveira Garabato, Esperanza Broullon, Miguel Gil Coto
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- Bieito Fernandez Castro, Marian Pena, Enrique Nogueira, Miguel Gilcoto, Esperanza Broullon, Antonio Comesana, Damien Bouffard, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Beatriz Mourino-Carballido
- 分野
- 物理学部門
空を見上げる人が増えると通行人は止まるか
街頭で人が集団の視線につられる様子を観察した古典的研究。
Stanley Milgram, Leonard Bickman, and Lawrence Berkowitz for experiments on a city street to see how many passersby stop to look upward when they see strangers looking upward REFERENCE: “Note on the Drawing Power of Crowds of Different Size,” Stanley Milgram, Leonard Bickman, and Lawrence Berkowitz, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 13, no. 2, 1969, pp. 79-82. <psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/h0028070> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Len Bickman
- 受賞者
- Stanley Milgram, Leonard Bickman, Lawrence Berkowitz
- 分野
- 心理学部門
排泄物を解析するスマートトイレ
尿や便を自動で観察し、健康状態の手がかりにする装置の研究。
Seung-min Park, for inventing the Stanford Toilet, a device that uses a variety of technologies — including a urinalysis dipstick test strip, a computer vision system for defecation analysis, an anal-print sensor paired with an identification camera, and a telecommunications link — to monitor and quickly analyze the substances that humans excrete. REFERENCE: “A Mountable Toilet System for Personalized Health Monitoring via the Analysis of Excreta,” Seung-min Park, Daeyoun D. Won, Brian J. Lee, Diego Escobedo, Andre Esteva, Amin Aalipour, T. Jessie Ge, et al., Nature Biomedical Engineering, vol. 4, no. 6, 2020, pp. 624-635. <doi.org/10.1038/s41551-020-0534-9> REFERENCE: “Digital Biomarkers in Human Excreta,” Seung-min Park, T. Jessie Ge, Daeyoun D. Won, Jong Kyun Lee, and Joseph C. Liao, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. 18, no. 8, 2021, pp. 521-522. <doi.org/10.1038/s41575-021-00462-0> REFERENCE: “Smart Toilets for Monitoring COVID-19 Surges: Passive Diagnostics and Public Health,” T. Jessie Ge, Carmel T. Chan, Brian J. Lee, Joseph C. Liao, and Seung-min Park, NPJ Digital Medicine, vol. 5, no. 1, 2022, article 39. <doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00582-0> REFERENCE: “Passive Monitoring by Smart Toilets for Precision Health,” T. Jessie Ge, Vasiliki Nataly Rahimzadeh, Kevin Mintz, Walter G. Park, Nicole Martinez-Martin, Joseph C. Liao, and Seung-min Park, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 15, no. 681, 2023, article eabk3489. <doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.abk3489> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Seung-min Park
- 受賞者
- Seung-min Park
- 分野
- 公衆衛生部門