Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXI

   PDF

2. Introduction to Comparative Cognitive Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

      PDF

   2. Primate Foundations of Human Intelligence: A View of Tool Use in Nonhuman Primates and Fossil Hominids

      • Tetsuro Matsuzawa

      Pages 3-25

3. Phylogeny of Perception and Cognition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

      PDF

   2. What You See is Different from What I See: Species Differences in Visual Perception

      • Kazuo Fujita

      Pages 29-54

   3. Investigating Visual Perception and Cognition in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Through Visual Search and Related Tasks: From Basic to Complex Processes

      • Masaki Tomonaga

      Pages 55-86

   4. Processing of the Global and Local Dimensions of Visual Hierarchical Stimuli by Humans (Homo sapiens), Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and Baboons (Papio papio)

      • Joël Fagot, Masaki Tomonaga, Christine Deruelle

      Pages 87-103

   5. How Do We Eat? Hypothesis of Foraging Strategy from the Viewpoint of Gustation in Primates

      • Yoshikazu Ueno

      Pages 104-111

4. Origin of Human Speech: Auditory Perception and Vocalization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

      PDF

   2. Lemur Vocal Communication and the Origin of Human Language

      • Ryo Oda

      Pages 115-134

   3. Vocal Exchange of Coo Calls in Japanese Macaques

      • Hideki Sugiura

      Pages 135-154

   4. Hearing and Auditory-Visual Intermodal Recognition in the Chimpanzee

      • Kazuhide Hashiya, Shozo Kojima

      Pages 155-189

   5. Early Vocal Development in a Chimpanzee Infant

      • Shozo Kojima

      Pages 190-196

5. Learning and Memory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

      PDF

   2. Chimpanzee Numerical Competence: Cardinal and Ordinal Skills

      • Dora Biro, Tetsuro Matsuzawa

      Pages 199-225

   3. Reproductive Memory Processes in Chimpanzees: Homologous Approaches to Research on Human Working Memory

      • Nobuyuki Kawai, Tetsuro Matsuzawa

      Pages 226-234

   4. Establishing Line Tracing on a Touch Monitor as a Basic Drawing Skill in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

      • Iver H. Iversen, Tetsuro Matsuzawa

      Pages 235-268

   5. Object Recognition and Object Categorization in Animals

      • Masako Jitsumori, Juan D. Delius

      Pages 269-293

6. Recognition of Self, Others, and Species

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295

      PDF

   2. Mirror Self-Recognition in Primates: An Ontogenetic and a Phylogenetic Approach

      • Noriko Inoue-Nakamura

      Pages 297-312

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 intellectual descendants of Kinji Imanishi and Junichiro Itani in the fields of behavioral ecology, psychology, and cognitive science. Matsuzawa and his colleagues-humans and other primate partners- explore a broad range of issues including the phylogeny of perception and cognition; the origin of human speech; learning and memory; recognition of self, others, and species; society and social interaction; and culture. With data from field and laboratory studies of more than 90 primate species and of more than 50 years of long-term research, the intellectual breadth represented in this volume makes it a major contribution to comparative cognitive science and to current views on the origin of the mind and behavior of humans.

• Action
• Memory
• Perception
• cognition
• cognitive psychology
• cognitive science
• development
• ecology
• evolution
• learning
• mind
• monkeys
• phylogeny
• primates
• primatology

From the reviews:

"The volume’s emphasis on studies of the common chimpanzee … reflects the long-standing interests of its editor, the not-so-common cognitive psychologist Tetsuro Matsuzawa. … Without question, this volume belongs on the desk of any student or researcher with a serious interest in primate behavior or comparative cognition. The editor has succeeded admirably in bringing together a coherent collection of important work." (Sarah Boysen, Science, Vol. 295, February, 2002)

• Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Aichi, Japan

  Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Policies and ethics