A5088780651- Face Recognition and Perception
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
Kyoto University
2016-2025
University of Stirling
2021
Flinders University
2007
University of Hull
2007
Facial expressions are subtle cues, central for communication and conveying emotions in mammals. Traditionally, facial have been classified as a whole (e.g. happy, angry, bared-teeth), due to automatic face processing the human brain, i.e., humans categorise globally, but not aware of or isolated cues such an eyebrow raise. Moreover, same configuration lip corners pulled backwards exposing teeth) can convey widely different information depending on species humans: happiness; chimpanzees:...
Scientific evidence should form the basis for policy and practice decisions concerning animal welfare. However, cultural attitudes inevitably influence decision-making processes. We conducted a survey of general towards welfare zoo-housed animals, live prey feeding trust in zoo management British Japanese visitors (1,611 aged over six years from one two zoos). asked respondents about their concepts welfare, acceptance using range vertebrates invertebrates as prey. Overall, both were...
Primates have evolved to rapidly detect and respond danger in their environment. However, the mechanisms involved attending threatening stimuli are not fully understood. The dot-probe task is one of most widely used experimental paradigms investigate these humans. date, few studies been conducted non-human primates. aim this study was whether can measure attentional biases towards faces chimpanzees. Eight adult chimpanzees participated a series touch screen tasks. We predicted faster...
Abstract This study examined forgetting in spatial memories acquired a virtual environment. In the two experiments, participants learned locations of eight objects. Experiment 1, objects were presented as photographs either laboratory or an equivalent Irrespective learning condition, accuracy recall was found to deteriorate after retention interval approximately 1 week. 2, following learning, three groups performed series non‐spatial tasks low, intermediate high difficulty. The 2 hours. A...
For primates, the ability to efficiently detect threatening faces is highly adaptive; however, it not clear exactly how are detected. This study investigated whether chimpanzees show search asymmetries for conspecific featuring scream and bared teeth expressions. Five adult female participated in a series of touchscreen matching-to-sample visual tasks. In Experiment 1, advantages versus neutral targets were found. A serial strategy indicated greater difficulty disengaging attention from...
For primates, the ability to efficiently detect threatening faces is highly adaptive, however, it not clear exactly how are detected. This study investigated whether chimpanzees show search asymmetries for conspecific featuring scream and bared teeth expressions. Five adult female participated in a series of touchscreen matching-to-sample visual tasks. In Experiment 1, advantages versus neutral targets, targets were found. A serial strategy indicated greater difficulty disengaging attention...
Many primate studies have investigated discrimination of individual faces within the same species. However, few looked at between species categorical level. This study systematically examined factors important for visual in chimpanzees, including: colour, orientation, familiarity and perceptual similarity. Five adult female chimpanzees were tested on their ability to discriminate identical (non-identical) images different a series touchscreen matching-to-sample experiments. Discrimination...
This study explored whether capuchin monkey eye preferences differ systematically in response to stimuli of positive and negative valence. The ‘valence hypothesis’ proposes that the right hemisphere is more dominant for emotional processing left processing. Visual information from each thought be transferred faster primarily processed by contra-lateral cerebral hemisphere. Therefore, it was predicted monkeys would show greater use looking at stimuli. Eleven captive were presented with four...