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Nobuo Masataka

Nobuo Masataka

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Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
5469
World Ranking
7362
National Ranking
17

Overview

Nobuo Masataka is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including Pharmacology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Pharmacy, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Neuroscience of Respiration and Sleep, Infant Health and Development, Diet, Metabolism, and Disease, Psychedelics and Drug Studies, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, as well as Neuroscience and Music Perception.

Recent publications by Nobuo Masataka include:

  • "Possible effects of cannabidiol (CBD) administration on the vocal activity of healthy domestic dogs upon their temporary separation from caregivers" (2024, Heliyon)
  • "Is cannabidiol (CBD) effective to ease separation anxiety?" (2024, Heliyon)
  • "The anxiety-reducing effects of cannabidiol treatment in teenagers with social anxiety disorder" (2020, Research outreach)
  • "Possible Anxiolytic Effects of Cannabidiol (Cbd) Administration on Feline Response to a Fear Response Test" (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Hirokazu Doi

Frequent publication venues for Masataka's work are:

  • Heliyon
  • Research outreach
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Motherese in a signed language

    Nobuo Masataka

  • Cross-Cultural Analysis of Social Competence and Behavior Problems in Preschoolers

    Peter LaFreniere;Nobuo Masataka;Marina Butovskaya;Qin Chen

  • Anxiolytic Effects of Repeated Cannabidiol Treatment in Teenagers With Social Anxiety Disorders.

    Nobuo Masataka

  • Preference for consonance over dissonance by hearing newborns of deaf parents and of hearing parents.

    Nobuo Masataka

  • Co‐occurences of preverbal vocal behavior and motor action in early infancy

    Keiko Ejiri;Nobuo Masataka

  • Why early linguistic milestones are delayed in children with Williams syndrome: late onset of hand banging as a possible rate–limiting constraint on the emergence of canonical babbling

    Nobuo Masataka

  • Possible role of mother-daughter vocal interactions on the development of species-specific song in gibbons.

    Hiroki Koda;Alban Lemasson;Alban Lemasson;Chisako Oyakawa;Chisako Oyakawa;Rizaldi;Rizaldi

  • Temporal and Structural Analysis of Affiliative Vocal Exchanges in Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri Sciureus)

    Maxeen Biben;David Symmes;Nobuo Masataka

  • Vocal learning of Japanese and rhesus monkeys

    Nobuo Masataka;Kazuo Fujita

  • Preference for infant-directed singing in 2-day-old hearing infants of deaf parents.

    Nobuo Masataka

  • Perception of motherese in a signed language by 6-month-old deaf infants.

    Nobuo Masataka

  • The efficacy of musical emotions provoked by Mozart's music for the reconciliation of cognitive dissonance.

    Nobuo Masataka;Leonid Perlovsky;Leonid Perlovsky

  • The onset of language

    Nobuo Masataka

  • Pitch characteristics of Japanese maternal speech to infants.

    Nobuo Masataka

  • Temporal Rules Regulating Affiliative Vocal Exchanges of Squirrel Monkeys

    Maxeen Biben;Nobuo Masataka

  • Human young children as well as adults demonstrate 'superior' rapid snake detection when typical striking posture is displayed by the snake.

    Nobuo Masataka;Sachiko Hayakawa;Nobuyuki Kawai

  • Categorical responses to natural and synthesized alarm calls in Goeldi's monkeys (Callimico goeldii)

    Nobuo Masataka

  • Effects of contingent and noncontingent maternal stimulation on the vocal behaviour of three- to four-month-old Japanese infants.

    Nobuo Masataka

  • Interspecific Responses of Ringtailed Lemurs to Playback of Antipredator Alarm Calls Given by Verreaux's Sifakas

    Ryo Oda;Ryo Oda;Nobuo Masataka;Nobuo Masataka

  • Locale-specific Vocal Behaviour of the Tamarin (Saguinus I. labiatus)

    Tomoko Maeda;Nobuo Masataka

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Matsuda
Hiroshi Matsuda Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London
Kim A. Bard
Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth
Rosario Montirosso
Rosario Montirosso Eugenio Medea
Sakiko Yoshikawa
Sakiko Yoshikawa Kyoto University
Marina Butovskaya
Marina Butovskaya Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
Kazuo Fujita
Kazuo Fujita Kyoto University
Julie R. Korenberg
Julie R. Korenberg University of Utah
Martine Hausberger
Martine Hausberger University of Rennes
Ursula Bellugi
Ursula Bellugi Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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