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2023

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Citations
21768
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1344
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Tetsuro Matsuzawa is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within psychology and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

The main fields of study covered by their work are:

  • Psychology
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields within these areas include:

  • Social Psychology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Genetics
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

Their publication record features research in a variety of scientific journals with frequent appearances in:

  • Primates
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Animals
  • American Journal of Primatology

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Automated audiovisual behavior recognition in wild primates, 2021, Science Advances
  • Joint Attention in Human and Chimpanzee Infants in Varied Socio-Ecological Contexts, 2021, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  • DeepWild: Application of the pose estimation tool DeepLabCut for behaviour tracking in wild chimpanzees and bonobos, 2023, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Field experiments find no evidence that chimpanzee nut cracking can be independently innovated, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Exploring greetings and leave-takings: communication during arrivals and departures by chimpanzees of the Bossou community, Guinea, 2021, Primates

Matsuzawa has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Susana Carvalho
  • Misato Hayashi
  • Dora Biro
  • Catherine Hobaiter
  • Cédric Sueur

They have also contributed to book publications, notably:

  • Perceptions of Human-Animal Relationships and their Impacts on Animal Ethics, Law and Research, published by Frontiers Media in 2021

Best Publications

  • Use of numbers by a chimpanzee.

    Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Cultural innovation and transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees: evidence from field experiments

    Dora Biro;Dora Biro;Noriko Inoue-Nakamura;Rikako Tonooka;Gen Yamakoshi

  • Development of stone tool use by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    Noriko Inoue-Nakamura;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts

    Micahel L. Wilson;Christophe Boesch;Barbara Fruth;Takeshi Furuichi

  • Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior

    Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees

    Sana Inoue;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Animal social complexity : intelligence, culture, and individualized societies

    F. B. M. de Waal;Peter L. Tyack

  • Field experiments on use of stone tools by chimpanzees in the wild.

    Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees

    Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Emergence of culture in wild chimpanzees: Education by master-apprenticeship.

    Tetsuro Matsuzawa;Dora Biro;Tatyana Humle;Noriko Inoue-Nakamura

  • Contagious yawning in chimpanzees.

    James R. Anderson;Masako MyowaYamakoshi;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Ant-dipping among the chimpanzees of Bossou, Guinea, and some comparisons with other sites

    Tatyana Humle;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Aging and Fertility Patterns in Wild Chimpanzees Provide Insights into the Evolution of Menopause

    Melissa Emery Thompson;James H. Jones;Anne E. Pusey;Stella Brewer-Marsden

  • Imitation in neonatal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

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

  • Numerical memory span in a chimpanzee.

    Nobuyuki Kawai;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Apes in the Anthropocene: flexibility and survival

    Kimberley J. Hockings;Matthew R. McLennan;Susana Carvalho;Susana Carvalho;Marc Ancrenaz

  • NUMERICAL ORDERING IN A CHIMPANZEE (PAN TROGLODYTES) : PLANNING, EXECUTING, AND MONITORING

    Dora Biro;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

  • Chaînes opératoires and resource-exploitation strategies in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) nut cracking

    Susana Carvalho;Eugénia Cunha;Cláudia Sousa;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Chimpanzee face recognition from videos in the wild using deep learning

    Daniel Schofield;Arsha Nagrani;Andrew Zisserman;Misato Hayashi

  • Primate archaeology

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  • Spontaneous synchronized tapping to an auditory rhythm in a chimpanzee

    Yuko Hattori;Masaki Tomonaga;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • The Ai project: historical and ecological contexts

    Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Use of wild and cultivated foods by chimpanzees at Bossou, Republic of Guinea: feeding dynamics in a human-influenced environment.

    Kimberley J. Hockings;Kimberley J. Hockings;James R. Anderson;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Visuoauditory mappings between high luminance and high pitch are shared by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans

    Vera U. Ludwig;Ikuma Adachi;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Assessing chimpanzee personality and subjective well-being in Japan.

    Alexander Weiss;Miho Inoue-Murayama;Kyung-Won Hong;Eiji Inoue

  • Factors influencing imitation of manipulatory actions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Masaki Tomonaga
Masaki Tomonaga University of Human Environments
Alexander Weiss
Alexander Weiss University of Edinburgh
James R. Anderson
James R. Anderson Kyoto University
Kazuo Fujita
Kazuo Fujita Kyoto University
William D. Hopkins
William D. Hopkins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kim A. Bard
Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth
Mariska E. Kret
Mariska E. Kret Leiden University
Munehiro Okamoto
Munehiro Okamoto Kyoto University
Stephen R. Ross
Stephen R. Ross Lincoln Park Zoo
Shoji Itakura
Shoji Itakura Kyoto University

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