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Masaki Tomonaga is affiliated with the University of Human Environments in Japan. Their research spans various fields, primarily psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology as well as developmental and educational psychology. Their work also engages with experimental and cognitive psychology alongside aspects of statistics and probability.

The scientist's contributions involve a range of topics including primate behavior and ecology, child and animal learning development, and face recognition and perception. Other areas of interest encompass visual perception and processing mechanisms, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and multisensory perception and integration.

Masaki Tomonaga has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include Animal Cognition with six papers, Journal of Comparative Psychology with five, Scientific Reports with three, Primates with three, and Developmental Science with two publications.

Selected recent papers include:

  • The evolution of quantitative sensitivity, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The contingency symmetry bias (affirming the consequent fallacy) as a prerequisite for word learning: A comparative study of pre-linguistic human infants and chimpanzees, 2021, Cognition
  • Colour matters more than shape for chimpanzees' recognition of developmental face changes, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Body perception in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): The effect of body structure changes, 2020, Journal of Comparative Psychology
  • Body perception in chimpanzees and humans: The expert effect, 2020, Scientific Reports

Their frequent coauthors reflect collaborations with multiple researchers, including Yuri Kawaguchi, Jie Gao, Ikuma Adachi, Tomoko Imura, and Fumito Kawakami.

Best Publications

  • Imitation in neonatal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

    Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi;Masaki Tomonaga;Masayuki Tanaka;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Development of social cognition in infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): face recognition, smiling, gaze, and the lack of triadic interactions

    Masaki Tomonaga;Masayuki Tanaka;Tetsuro Matsuzawa;Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi

  • Great apes use self-experience to anticipate an agent’s action in a false-belief test

    Fumihiro Kano;Christopher Krupenye;Satoshi Hirata;Masaki Tomonaga

  • Spontaneous synchronized tapping to an auditory rhythm in a chimpanzee

    Yuko Hattori;Masaki Tomonaga;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Group Differences in the Mutual Gaze of Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes).

    Kim A. Bard;Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi;Masaki Tomonaga;Masayuki Tanaka

  • How chimpanzees look at pictures: a comparative eye-tracking study

    Fumihiro Kano;Masaki Tomonaga

  • Global and local processing in humans (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Use of a visual search task with compound stimuli.

    Joël Fagot;Masaki Tomonaga

  • An infant chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) follows human gaze.

    Sanae Okamoto;Masaki Tomonaga;Kiyoshi Ishii;Nobuyuki Kawai

  • Emergence of symmetry in a visual conditional discrimination by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

    Masaki Tomonaga;Tetsuro Matsuzawa;Kazuo Fujita;Jun'Hchi Yamamoto

  • Differential Prefrontal White Matter Development in Chimpanzees and Humans

    Tomoko Sakai;Akichika Mikami;Masaki Tomonaga;Mie Matsui

  • Relative numerosity discrimination by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): evidence for approximate numerical representations.

    Masaki Tomonaga

  • Preference for human direct gaze in infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

    Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi;Masaki Tomonaga;Masayuki Tanaka;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Visual search for orientation of faces by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): face-specific upright superiority and the role of facial configural properties.

    Masaki Tomonaga

  • Enumeration of briefly presented items by the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and humans (Homo sapiens)

    Masaki Tomonaga;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Face scanning in chimpanzees and humans: continuity and discontinuity

    Fumihiro Kano;Fumihiro Kano;Masaki Tomonaga

  • Tests for control by exclusion and negative stimulus relations of arbitrary matching to sample in a "symmetry-emergent" chimpanzee

    Masaki Tomonaga

  • Chimpanzees and Humans Mimic Pupil-Size of Conspecifics

    Mariska E. Kret;Masaki Tomonaga;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Tool use task as environmental enrichment for captive chimpanzees

    Maura L. Celli;Masaki Tomonaga;Toshifumi Udono;Mikagu Teramoto

  • Developmental patterns of chimpanzee cerebral tissues provide important clues for understanding the remarkable enlargement of the human brain

    Tomoko Sakai;Mie Matsui;Akichika Mikami;Ludise Malkova

  • Sequential responding to arabic numerals with wild cards by the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

    Masaki Tomonaga;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology
Toshikazu Hasegawa
Toshikazu Hasegawa University of Tokyo
Kazuo Fujita
Kazuo Fujita Kyoto University
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Kim A. Bard
Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth
Shoji Itakura
Shoji Itakura Kyoto University
Joël Fagot
Joël Fagot Aix-Marseille University
Mariska E. Kret
Mariska E. Kret Leiden University
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto
Hideki Ohira
Hideki Ohira Nagoya University

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