著者
中島 定彦 福岡 朋実 高松 靖子 陳 香純
出版者
THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY
雑誌
動物心理学研究 (ISSN:09168419)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.59, no.1, pp.77-84, 2009
被引用文献数
1

According to the experimental studies conducted by European and American researchers, domestic dogs are good performers in choosing a container based on gestures provided by humans. Some researchers have argued that this ability is a product of domestication. We investigated whether family dogs in Japan can use social cues to locate food hidden in one of two small containers (pots). The tested cues were (1) pointing to the target pot with the contralateral hand (i.e., cross-body pointing), (2) turning the head to the target pot, and (3) kneeling behind the target pot (i.e., local enhancement). The performance was poor in the present study compared with the previous studies conduced in European/American countries. As family dogs are well controlled in these countries compared to those in Japan, our data seem to challenge the domestication hypothesis and support the claim that social skill learning plays a critical role in this task.
著者
北口 勝也
出版者
日本動物心理学会
雑誌
動物心理学研究 (ISSN:09168419)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.50, no.1, pp.1-11, 2000-06-15 (Released:2009-10-13)
参考文献数
61
被引用文献数
1 2

Animal behavior in the irrelevant situation has been paid little attention in contrast to that in the relevant situation, i. e., typical conditioning researches. The present article reviewed the researches using the “dual-training paradigm” for investigating the animal behavior in the irrelevant situation which includes “learned irrelevance” and “learned helplessness” phenomena. To classify the researches, three criteria were applied; type of training (S-S* or R-S*), type of S* (aversive or appetitive), and type of contingency (+, -, or 0). The classification made it clear the direction of investigation.
著者
入來 篤史
出版者
日本動物心理学会
雑誌
動物心理学研究 (ISSN:09168419)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.56, no.2, pp.113-118, 2006-12-25

Primates have evolved to allow placing their hands in front of their face, where precise three-dimensional structures could be analyzed through their unique binocular vision. Primate parietal cortex possesses neural mechanisms subsurving such elaborate shaping of hands under visual supervision, which should have in turn enabled higher primates to handle primitive tools. Such parietal multimodal integration may not be limited to interpretations of represented shapes and the meanings of spatial structures, but may also be extrapolated to higher intellectual functions in humans.
著者
牛谷 智一 後藤 和宏
出版者
日本動物心理学会
雑誌
動物心理学研究 (ISSN:09168419)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.58, no.2, pp.103-109, 2008 (Released:2008-12-24)
参考文献数
25

In our target article published in the latest special issue of the Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology, we proposed a new framework of species comparison for studies of animal psychology in which the generalist and evolutionist approaches were incorporated. The 13 open peer commentaries to the target article, the pros and cons, provided valuable criticisms on our proposal. Although generalists were skeptical of scientific validity of the evolutionist approach due to its difficulty of experimental examination, we think that species comparison allows us to test evolutionist hypotheses with regard to adaptive values (ultimate causes) of certain psychological processes in a falsifiable manner. In the present paper, we reemphasized that species comparison has a critical role in studies of animal psychology and that the examination of ultimate cause is as important as that of proximate causes of psychological processes.

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出版者
日本動物心理学会
雑誌
動物心理学研究 (ISSN:09168419)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.60, no.1, pp.73-77, 2010 (Released:2010-06-25)
被引用文献数
1
著者
入來 篤史
出版者
日本動物心理学会
雑誌
動物心理学研究 (ISSN:09168419)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.56, no.2, pp.113-118, 2006 (Released:2006-12-22)
参考文献数
11

Primates have evolved to allow placing their hands in front of their face, where precise three-dimensional structures could be analyzed through their unique binocular vision. Primate parietal cortex possesses neural mechanisms subsurving such elaborate shaping of hands under visual supervision, which should have in turn enabled higher primates to handle primitive tools. Such parietal multimodal integration may not be limited to interpretations of represented shapes and the meanings of spatial structures, but may also be extrapolated to higher intellectual functions in humans.