Masaki Tomonaga

Associate Professor, Section of Language and Intelligence, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University

Selected publication

Original Articles (in English)

  • Fagot, J, Deruelle, C., & Tomonaga, M (1999). Perception des dimensions globales et locales de stimuli visuels chez le primate. Primatologie, 2, 61-77.
  • Fagot, J., & Tomonaga, M. (1999). Global-local processing in humans (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Use of a visual search task with compound stimuli. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113, 3-12.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1999). Establishing functional classes in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) with a 2-item sequential-responding procedure. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 72, 57-79.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1999). Inversion effect in perception of human faces in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Primates, 40, 417-438.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1999). Visual texture segregation by the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Behavioural Brain Research, 99, 209-218.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1998). Perception of shape from shading in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans (Homo sapiens). Animal Cognition,1, 25-35.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1997). Precuing the target location in visual searching by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): Effects of precue validity. Japanese Psychological Research, 39, 200-211.
  • Tonooka, R., Tomonaga, M., & Matsuzawa, T. (1997). Acquisition and transmission of tool making and use for drinking juice in a group if captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Japanese Psychological Research, 39, 253-265.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1995). Transfer of odd-item search performance in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Perceptual and Motor Skills, 80, 35-42.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1995). Visual search by chimpanzees (Pan): Assessment of controlling relations. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 63, 175-186.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1994). How laboratory-raised Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) perceive rotated photographs of monkeys: Evidence for an inversion effect in face perception. Primates, 35, 155-165.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1993). A search for search asymmetry in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76, 1287-1295.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1993). Facilitatory and inhibitory effects of blocked-trial fixation of the target location on a chimpanzee's (Pan troglodytes) visual search performance. Primates, 34, 161-168.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1993). Tests for control by exclusion and negative stimulus relations of arbitrary matching to sample in a "symmetry-emergent" chimpanzee. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 59, 215-229.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1993). Use of multiple-alternative matching-to-sample in the study of visual search in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 107, 75-83.
  • Tomonaga, M., Itakura, S., & Matsuzawa, T. (1993). Superiority of conspecific faces and reduced inversion effect in face perception by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Folia Primatologica, 61, 110-114.
  • Tomonaga, M., & Matsuzawa, T. (1992). Perception of complex geometric figures in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans (Homo sapiens): Analyses of visual similarity on the basis of choice reaction time. Journal of Comparative Psychology,106, 43-52.
  • Tomonaga, M., Matsuzawa, T., Fujita, K., & Yamamoto, J. (1991). Emergence of symmetry in a visual conditional discrimination by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Psychological Reports, 68, 51-60.
  • Tomonaga, M. & Ohta, H. (1990). Acquisition and transfer of visual Go/No-go discrimination by a chimpanzee. Primates, 31, 439-447.
  • Tomonaga, M. (1990). Multidimensional auditory stimulus control in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Primates, 31, 545-553.

Reviews

2006

Matsuzwa, T., Tomonaga, M., & Tanaka, M. (Eds.) (2006). Cognitive development in chimpanzees. 522pp.+XVIIpp., Tokyo, Japan: Springer.

Imura, T., Tomonaga, M., & Yagi, A. (2006). Processing of shadowi information in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and human (Homo sapiens) infants. In T. Matsuzwa, M.

Tomonaga, & M. Tanaka (Eds.), Cognitive development in chimpanzees (pp.305-316). Tokyo, Japan: Springer.

Okamoto-Barth, S., & Tomonaga, M. (2006). Development of joint attention in infant chimpanzees. In T. Matsuzwa, M. Tomonaga, & M. Tanaka (Eds.), Cognitive development in chimpanzees (pp.155-171). Tokyo, Japan: Springer.

Tomonaga, M. (2006). Development of chimpanzee social cognition in the first 2 years of life. In T. Matsuzwa, M. Tomonaga, & M. Tanaka (Eds.), Cognitive development in chimpanzees (pp.182-197). Tokyo, Japan: Springer.

Tomonaga, M., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., Mizuno, Y., Okamoto, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., Kosugi, D., Bard, K. A., Tanaka, M., & Matsuzawa, T. (2006). Chimpanzee social cognition in early life: Comparative-developmental perspective. In E. A. Wasserman & T. R. Zentall (Eds), Comparative cognition: Experimental explorations of animal intelligence (pp.639-650). New York: Oxford University Press.

Tomonaga, M., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., Okamoto, S., & Bard, K. A. (2006). Development of gaze recognition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). In K. Fujita & S. Itakura (Eds.), Diversity of cognition: Evolution, development, domestication, and pathology (pp.55-72). Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto University Press.

2001

Fagot, J., Tomonaga, M., & Deruelle, C. (2001). Processing of the global and local dimensions of visual hierarchical stimuli by humans (Homo sapiens), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and baboons (Papio papio). In T. Matsuzawa (Ed.), Primate origin of human cognition and behavior (pp. 87-103). Tokyo, Japan: Springer.

Tomonaga, M. (2001). Investigating visual perception and cognition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) through visual search and related tasks: From basic to complex processes. In

T. Matsuzawa (Ed.), Primate origin of human cognition and behavior (pp. 55-86). Tokyo, Japan: Springer.

 


Report & Others

2001

Matsuzawa, T., & Tomonaga, M. (2001). For a rise of comparative cognitive science. Animal Cognition, 4, 133-135.

Tomonaga, M., & Matsuzawa, T. (2001). Editorial. Psychologia, 44, 1-2.

1999

Tomonaga, M. (1999). Book review. "Invitation to Comparative Cognitive Science: An Evolutionary Understanding of the Mind," by Kazuo Fujita. Kyoto, Nakanishiya Publ, 1998, 247 pp. Primates, 40, 629-631.

 


Presentations in Sympoisa, Workshops, etc.


(since 2000, in English)

2006

Tomonaga, M. (2006). Chimpanzee attention captured and disengaged by social stimuli. 21st Century COE Program "Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences" at The University of Tokyo, Third International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Science "Social Cognition: Evolution, Development, and Mechanism". March 9-10, 2006, Tokyo, Japan (Abstract: Program and Abstracts, p.6)

2005

Tomonaga, M. (2005). Early social cognition in chimpanzees. Keio University 21st Century COE Program Symposium: "Convergence and divergence of mind", July 25, 2005, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.

Tomonaga, M. (2005). To be a chimpanzee: Similarities and differences in the development of social cognition between humans and our evolutionary neighbors. Lecture in Tamagawa University. April 16, 2005, Tamagawa University, Machida, Tokyo, Japan.

2004

Tomonaga, M. (2004). Chimpanzee social cognition in early life. Kyoto-Michigan Collaboration in Psychology 2nd Symposium. April 24-25, 2004, Kyoto, Japan (Abstarct: Program and Abstracts, p.13.)

Tomonaga, M. (2004). Cognitive development of chimpanzees from comparative perspective. The HOPE Seminar "Chimpanzee Cognition: From Visual to Social Cognition", 20 August, 2004, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

Tomonaga, M., Tanaka, M., & Matsuzawa, T. (2004). Use of touch-sensitive screens for the study of the chimpanzee's perception and cognition. The XXth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Symposium "Uses of Technology in the study of cognition in non-human primates", 22-28 August, 2004, Trino, Italy (Abstract: Folia Primatologica, 75 (Supllement1), 135. .

2003

Tomonaga, M. (2003). Perceptual bases for gaze recognition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). COE21 International Symposium "Diversity of Cognition: Evolution, Development, Domestication, and Pathology" (21st Century COE program of Kyoto University Psychology Union), September 26-27, 2003, Kyoto. (Abstract: Program & Abstracts, Talk-2)

Tomonaga, M., Okamoto, S., & Myowa-Yamakoshi, M. (2003). Gaze recognition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Kyoto University International Symposium (Kyoto-Michigan Collaboration in Psychology) "Self, Cognition, and Emotion". University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: USA. December 6-7, 2003.(Abstracts: Program & Abstracts, p. 64)

2002

Tomonaga, M., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., Yamaguchi, M. K., Okamoto, S., Kosugi, D., & Bard, K. A. (2002). Developmental changes in the recognition of gaze in infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). COE International Symposium, "Evolution of the Apes and the Origin of the Human Beings". November 14-17, 2002. Inuyama International Sightseeing Center "Freude", Inuyama, Japan. (Abstract: Program and Abstracts, p.26)

Tomonaga, M., Okamoto, S., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., & Yamaguchi, M. (2002). Recognition of face and gaze in infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). The 2nd International Symposium on Comparative Cognitive Science, "Social transmission of knowledge". Kyoto and Inuyama, 17-20 February, 2002. (Program and Abstracts, p.66)

Tomonaga, M., Tanaka, M., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., & Matsuzawa, T. (2002). Behavioral and cognitive development of infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Overview of the research project in the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University. The XIXth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Symposium "Behavioral and cognitive development of infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)". August 8, 2002. Beijing, China. (Abstract: Abstracts, pp.140-141.)

2001

Tomonaga, M. (2001). Gaze priming in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)? XVIIIth congress of the International Primatological Society, Symposium "Perceptual basis of gaze recognition from the scomparative perspective: From dogs to primates". 7-12 January 2001, Adelaide, Australia. (Abstracts and Programme, p. 193)

Tomonaga,M., Tanaka, M., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., & Matsuzawa, T. (2001).Cognitive development of infant chimpanzees. Kyoto University - Universite Louis Pasteur 10th Anniversary Symposium, "From molecular, stress signal to cognition". Kyoto, Japan, 9-10 February, 2001. (abstract: Program and Abstracts, p. 18)

2000

Tomonaga, M. (2000). Visual perception in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): From infants to adults. Symposium "Comapartive cognition: Animal researches", International conference on "Development of mind". 30 August-1 September, 2000, Tokyo, Japan (Proceedings, pp.58-62).

Tomonaga, M. (2000). Visual search by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). COE International Symposium on Phylogeny of Cognition and Language, Inuyama, Japan, 2-5 March, 2000. (abstract: Program and Abstracts, p.45).

Tomonaga, M., Tanaka, M., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., & Matsuzawa, T. (2000). Cognitive development of infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Overview of the research project. COE international symposium "Development and aging of primates". 30 November-2 December 2000, Inuyama, Japan. (Program and Abstracts, p.49)

Contact

Section of Language and Intelligence,
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University,
41-2, Kanrin, Inuyama, Aichi, 484-8506, Japan
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