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Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior

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Editors:
  1. Tetsuro Matsuzawa

    1. Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Aichi, Japan

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  • The comparative approach covering the diversity of primate species to show the cognition and behavior of primates including humans

  • Both experimental approach and observational approach are combined

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXI
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  2. Introduction to Comparative Cognitive Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Primate Foundations of Human Intelligence: A View of Tool Use in Nonhuman Primates and Fossil Hominids

      • Tetsuro Matsuzawa
      Pages 3-25

  4. Origin of Human Speech: Auditory Perception and Vocalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    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
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    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
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    2. Mirror Self-Recognition in Primates: An Ontogenetic and a Phylogenetic Approach

      • Noriko Inoue-Nakamura
      Pages 297-312
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About this book

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.

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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)

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior

  • Editors: Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-09423-4

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-70290-0Published: 01 June 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-09422-7Published: 30 June 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-09423-4Published: 12 March 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 587

  • Topics: Zoology, Ecology

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