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ANIMAL COGNITION


Vol 4 No 3-4 November 2001

Springer Verlag 2001

ISSN print edition (1435-9448)

[With thanks to Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa for a copy of this issue of Animal 
Cognition. wprc/lj]

CONTENTS

Preface

Matsuzawa T, Tomonaga M: For a rise of comparative cognitive science     
133

Visual Perception and Cognition

Cook RG, Shaw R, Blaisdell AP: Dynamic object
perception by pigeons: discrimination of action in video presentations     137

Watanabe S: Van Gogh, Chagall and
pigeons: picture discrimination in pigeons and humans     147

Ushitani T, Fujita K, Yamanaka R: Do
pigeons (Columba livia) perceive object unity?     153

Wasserman EA, Young ME, Fagot J: Effects of number of items on
the baboon's discrimination of same from different visual displays     
163

Fagot J, Tomonaga M: Effects of element separation on
perceptual grouping by humans (Homo sapiens) and
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): perception of Kanizsa illusory figures     171

Iversen IH, Matsuzawa T: Acquisition of navigation by
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in an automated fingermaze task     179

Biro D, Matsuzawa T: Use of numerical symbols by the
chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): Cardinals, ordinals, and the introduction of zero    193

Tanaka M: Discrimination and categorization of
photographs of natural objects by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)     201

Sousa C, Matsuzawa T: The use of tokens as
rewards and tools by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)     213

Parr LA: Cognitive and physiological markers of
emotional awareness in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)     223

Auditory Perception/Cognition and Vocal Communication

Hashiya K, Kojima S: Acquisition of auditory-visual
intermodal matching-to-sample by a chimpanzee
(Pan troglodytes): comparison with visual-visual intramodal matching     
231

Okanoya K, Ikebuchi M, Uno H, Watanabe S: Left-side dominance for
song discrimination in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica)     241

Snowdon CT: Review article Social processes in
communication and cognition in callitrichid monkeys: a review     247

Social Behavior and Cognition

Kutsukake N, Castles DL: Reconciliation and
variation in postconflict stress in Japanese macaques
(Macaca fuscata fuscata): testing the integrated hypothesis     259

Hare B: Review article Can competitive paradigms
increase the validity of experiments on primate social cognition?     269

Itakura S: Attention to repeated events in human infants
(Homo sapiens): effects of joint visual attention versus stimulus change     281

Hirata S, Matsuzawa T: Tactics to obtain a
hidden food item in chimpanzee pairs (Pan troglodytes)      285

Addessi E, Visalberghi E: Social facilitation of eating novel
food in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): input
provided by group members and responses affected in the observer     297

Custance DM, Whiten A, Sambrook T, Galdikas B: Testing for
social learning in the "artificial fruit" processing of
wildborn orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), Tanjung Puting, Indonesia     305

Manipulatory Skills and Tool Use Behavior

Johnson-Pynn J, Fragaszy DM: Do apes and monkeys rely
upon conceptual reversibility? A review of studies using
seriated nesting cups in children and nonhuman primates        315

Tonooka R: Leaf-folding behavior for drinking water by
wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Bossou, Guinea     325

Takeshita H: Development of combinatory
manipulation in chimpanzee infants (Pan troglodytes)     335

Byrne RW, Corp N, Byrne JME: Manual dexterity in the
gorilla: bimanual and digit role differentiation in a natural task     
347


PREFACE

Tetsuro Matsuzawa and Masaki Tomonaga: For a Rise of Comparative Cognitive Science

Naive perception may tell us that the Earth is flat and the Sun revolves around the Earth. 
However, careful observation of the complex movements of planets, by Nicholaus 
Copernicus (1473-1543), Galileo Galilei (1564 1642), Johann Kepler (1571-1630), and 
other astronomers, has brought true understanding. The Earth is round and it revolves 
around the Sun. This is called the Copernican revolution, or the turning point from belief 
in the Ptolemaic system to the Copernican system.

We, humans, arrived at this true understanding in the 16th century. At present, almost all 
of us recognize that the Earth is round, not flat, paying little attention to our naive 
perception. In a sense, it took about 400 years for us to overcome our naive perception 
and accept the scientific truth.

The evolution of living organisms by natural selection was first postulated by Charles 
Darwin (1809-1882) and his contemporaries in the 19th century. Darwin's book On the 
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in 1859. This discovery 
is one of the most important additions to our world-view. It took about 150 years for us to 
gradually accept the scientific understanding of our relatedness to animals, which 
contradicts our naive perception in which monkeys, cats, dogs, and ourselves look 
different from each other.

The fossil record and recent progress in DNA analysis clearly show us that we, Homo 
sapiens, are one of the various living species on the Earth, sharing the common origins of 
life. All living organisms have survived within the c. 3.5 billion years of the history of 
life on this planet. The genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees, their closest 
evolutionary neighbors, is estimated to be about 1.7%. Humans and chimpanzees shared 
a common ancestor about 5 million years ago. This means that the two species have 
shared a common thread of existence over more than 99.8% of evolutionary history. 
However, many people still think of chimpanzees as "big black monkeys", based on their 
naive perception. They simply look different from us. It may take some more years for us 
to fully recognize that humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor and should be 
put together in a group of "hominoids", that includes humans and apes, and that should be 
contrasted against the group of "monkeys" such as Japanese macaques.

Human cognition and behavior are as much products of evolution as the human body. 
However, "mind" cannot remain in the bone and dental fragments of fossil hominids. One 
way to trace the evolutionary process through which it has emerged is by comparison 
with other living species. Cross-species comparisons of this sort constitute a royal road in 
biology when studying evolutionary processes responsible for traits arising in 
morphology, physiology, behavior, and also psychology. Comparing living species can 
be a fruitful approach in the domain of understanding the evolutionary origins of human 
cognition and behavior: that is a new discipline called "comparative cognitive science" 
(Matsuzawa 2001). For the purposes of this discipline, we need to explore a broad range 
of species including humans and nonhuman primates, and also other mammals, birds, and 
even invertebrates. Someday in the future, a true scientific understanding of human 
nature in an evolutionary perspective will overcome the presently prevailing dichotomy 
between "humans" and "animals" supported by naive perception.

This special issue of Animal Cognition is one of the two volumes of Proceedings 
resulting from a Center of Excellence (COE) International Symposium on "Phylogeny of 
Cognition and Language" held in Inuyama, Japan, 2-5 March 2000 (Fig.1; Tomonaga and 
Matsuzawa 2001). The other volume was published in a special issue of the journal 
Psychologia: An International Journal of Psychology in the Orient (published quarterly 
by the Psychologia Society, e-mail: psysoc@www.educ.kyoto-u.ac.jp). The symposium 
was financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of 
Japan.

The symposium was based on the idea of creating a comparative cognitive science, and 
had a threefold purpose. It aimed to provide a rare opportunity for interaction among 
researchers from different disciplines: interactions between researchers of human 
ontogeny versus phylogeny, of primates versus non-primate animals, and from the East 
and the West.

First, we invited researchers interested in human cognitive development. The word 
"infant" originally means "unable to speak". Human infants can be characterized by not 
being able to speak, much like nonhuman animals. No verbal instruction is possible and 
no verbal responses can be expected in studies of human infants. These constraints are 
somehow shared with studies of nonhuman animals. Developmental studies of human 
cognition have therefore been able to contribute suggestions to the comparative study of 
cognition and behavior in nonhuman animals, and vice versa. The ontogeny of mind will 
illuminate the phylogeny of mind, and vice versa.

Second, we invited researchers who specialize in the study of various kinds of species. 
There seems to be a dichotomy between primate studies and non-primate ones in the area 
of animal cognition. Non-primate studies, dealing mainly with rodents and birds, have 
paid much attention to the common learning mechanisms among living species. In other 
words, they have focused on an analogical aspect of the evolutionary process by which 
evolutionarily remote species can develop apparently similar cognition and behavior. On 
the other hand, primate studies have dealt with closely related species, including humans, 
and have tried to clarify a homological aspect of evolutionary process. The two different 
approaches should be complementary to each other.

Third, we invited researchers from the West to meet researchers from the East. It is not 
well known that Japan is the only country among the so-called advanced countries (such 
as "Summit" members), that has indigenous monkeys, Macaca fuscata, known as snow 
monkeys. There are no native monkeys at all in North America or Europe. Japanese 
people are raised with folklore and fairy tales that give an important role to monkeys. 
This special affection of ordinary people towards monkeys in general seems to have 
promoted the development of primate studies in Japan.

The late Kinji Imanishi (1902-1992) of Kyoto University took the lead (Imanishi 1941). 
In 1948 Imanishi and colleagues went to Koshima island to study wild Japanese 
monkeys. That resulted in the finding of the cultural propagation of "sweet-potato 
washing" (Hirata et al.2001). The study still continues. There is a chronological record 
over 53 years of seven generations in a wild population. Ten years later, in 1958, 
Imanishi and his colleagues went to Africa to start the socio-ecological study of African 
great apes in the wild. In short, the study of primates in Japan started with field work 
from the beginning, later followed by laboratory work. This is just the reverse of the 
Western tradition of the discipline: for example, take the case of chimpanzee researches. 
Names such as Robert Yerkes (1876-1946) and Wolfgang Koehler (1887-1967) were 
followed by Jane Goodall (1934 ). These different traditions may to some extent be 
reflected in the present style of research.

We invited young researchers early in their careers as well as established ones. This 
mixture was really effective in stimulating the interactions described above. We very 
much hoped that all participants would use this opportunity to gain an overview of 
evolutionary approaches to cognition and behavior in humans and nonhuman animals, to 
learn about their colleagues, and to enjoy the early buds of spring in Japan. It is our great 
pleasure to see this special issue of Animal Cognition, which is the outcome of such 
pleasant interactions. We would like to share the fruits with the readers of this journal. 
Without the support of Dr. Tatiana Czeschlik, Chief Editor, we could not have reached 
this point. We are grateful for her encouragement and patience in becoming a bridge to a 
non-English-speaking ,scientific community.

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Posted date: 9-12-02

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