Primate origins of human cognition and behavior /
Biologists and anthropologists in Japan have played a crucial role in the development of primatology as a scientific discipline. Publication of Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior under the editorship of Tetsuro Matsuzawa reaffirms the pervasive and creative role played by the intellectu...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to comparative cognitive science. Primate foundations of human intelligence: a view of tool use in nonhuman primates and fossil hominids
- Phylogeny of perception and cognition. What you see is different from what I see: species differences in visual perception ; Investigating visual perception and cognition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) through visual search and related tasks: from basic to complex processes ; Processing of the global and local dimensions of visual hierarchical stimuli by humans (Homo sapiens), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and baboons (Papio papio) ; How do we eat? Hypothesis of foraging strategy from the viewpoint of gustation in primates
- Origin of human speech: auditory perception and vocalization. Lemur vocal communication and the origin of human language ; Vocal exchange of coo calls in Japanese macaques ; Hearing and auditory-visual intermodal recognition in the chimpanzee ; Early vocal development in a chimpanzee infant
- Learning and memory. Chimpanzee numerical competence: cardinal and ordinal skills ; Reproductive memory processes in chimpanzees: homologous approaches to research on human working memory ; Establishing line tracing on a touch monitor as a basic drawing skill in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) ; Object recognition and object categorization in animals
- Recognition of self, others, and species. Mirror self-recognition in primates: an ontogenetic and a phylogenetic approach ; The level of self-knowledge in nonhuman primates: from the perspective of comparative cognitive science ; Self- and other-control in squirrel monkeys ; Evolutionary foundation and development of imitation ; Species recognition by macaques measured by sensory reinforcement ; Evolution of the human eye as a device for communication
- Society and social interaction. A review of 50 years of research on the Japanese monkeys of Koshima: status and dominance ; Mother-offspring relationship in macaques ; The myth of despotism and nepotism: dominance and kinship in matrilineal societies of macaques ; Decision making in social interactions by monkeys
- Culture. Sweet-potato washing revisited ; Tube test in free-ranging Japanese macaques: use of sticks and stones to obtain fruit from a transparent pipe ; Tool use by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) of the Arnhem Zoo community ; Ecology of tool use in wild chimpanzees: toward reconstruction of early hominid evolution ; Emergence of culture in wild chimpanzees: education by master-apprenticeship.