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

Original articles (peer-reviewed)

• Goto K, Imura T, Tomonaga M (2012) Perception of Emergent Configurations in Humans (Homo sapiens) and Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, Feb 13
• Shirai N, Imura T, Hattori Y, Adachi I, Ichihara S, Kanazawa S, Yamaguchi MK. , Tomonaga M (2010) Asymmetricperception of radial expansion/contraction in Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) infants. Experimental Brain Research, 202, 319-325
•  Tomonaga M, Imura T (2010) Pacman in the sky with shadows: The effect of cast shadows on the perceptual completion of occluded figures by chimpanzees and humans. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 6, 38
•  Tomonaga M, Imura T (2010) Visual search for human gaze direction by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). PLoS ONE, 5(2): e9131
• Ushitani T, Imura T, Tomonaga M (2010) Object-based attention in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Vision Research, 50, 577-584
• Imura T, Tomonaga M (2009) Moving shadows contribute to the corridor illusion in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 123, 280-286.
•  Tomonaga M, Imura T (2009) Faces capture the visuospatial attention of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Evidence from a cueing experiment. Frontiers in Zoology, 6:14
• Tomonaga M, Imura T (2009) Human gestures trigger different attentional shifts in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans (Homo sapiens). Animal Cognition, 12, S11-S18.
•  Imura T, Shirai N, Tomonaga M, Yamaguchi MK. , Yagi A (2008) Asymmetry on the perception of motion in depth by moving cast shadows. Journal of Vision, 8, 1-8
• Imura T, Tomonaga M, Yagi A (2008) The effects of linear perspective on relative size discrimination in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans (Homo sapiens). Behavioural Processes, 77, 306-312
• Imura T, Tomonaga M, Yamaguchi MK , Yagi A (2008) Asymmetry in the detection of shapes from shading in infants Japanese Psychological Research, 50, 128-136
• Imura T, Yamaguchi MK. , Kanazawa S, Shirai N, Otsuka Y, Tomonaga M, Yagi A (2008) Infants' sensitivity to shading and line junctions. Vision Research, 48, 1420-1426
• Tomonaga M, Imura T, Mizuno Y, Tanaka M (2007) Gravity bias in young and adult chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Tests with modified opaque-tubes task. Developmental Science, 10, 411-421
•  Imura T, Yamaguchi MK. , Kanazawa S, Shirai N, Otsuka Y, Tomonaga M, Yagi A (2006) Perception of motion trajectory of object from the moving cast shadow in infants Vision Research, 46, 652-657
•  Imura T, Tomonaga M (2003) Perception of depth from shading in infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Animal Cognition, Volume 6, Number 4, 253-258

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