{"title":"Searching for cognitive processes underlying insect learning","authors":"M. Mizunami, Chihiro Sato-Matsumoto, Y. Matsumoto","doi":"10.2502/JANIP.67.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2502/JANIP.67.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Elucidation of neural mechanisms of learning and memory in insects and their comparison with those in mammals should help to deepen our understanding of evolution of the brain and behavior in animals. Our studies on Pavlovian (classical) conditioning in crickets suggested that octopamine (OA), the invertebrate counterpart of noradrenaline, and dopamine (DA) convey signals of appetitive and aversive unconditioned stimulus (US), respectively. Our studies also suggested that activation of OA or DA neurons is needed for execution of appetitive or aversive conditioned response (or for appetitive or aversive memory retrieval), respectively. We proposed that Pavlovian conditioning in crickets is determined by prediction error, i.e., discrepancy between the actual US and predicted US, as has been suggested in mammals. OA neurons appear to mediate the prediction error signals in appetitive conditioning. We conclude that insect Pavlovian conditioning is based on sophisticated information processing that shares many features with those in mammals, suggesting evolutionary convergence of basic brain functions between mammals and insects.","PeriodicalId":260786,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130584150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Sawa, Midori Ohkita, Keita Nishiyama, K. Samejima
{"title":"Inter-species interaction between humans and horses","authors":"K. Sawa, Midori Ohkita, Keita Nishiyama, K. Samejima","doi":"10.2502/JANIP.67.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2502/JANIP.67.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Animals, including humans, communicate by transmitting various kinds of information to each other. Although individuals of the same animal species share a channel of communication, it is sometimes difficult to explore the nature of communication between different animal species. In this study, the transmission of information between humans and horses was examined regarding the three-term contingency in behavior analysis. We introduced studies in which signals from humans are discriminative stimuli for horses, and in which signals from humans are reinforcing stimuli for horses. Possibility and difficulty of information transmission between humans and horses were discussed.","PeriodicalId":260786,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128685016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"English presentation tips for the students of animal psychology","authors":"Arii Watanabe","doi":"10.2502/JANIP.67.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2502/JANIP.67.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"As you prepare an English presentation, your main focus should be on getting your message across to the audience effectively. Even if you do not have native-like proficiency in English, there are many other ways to make your presentation appealing. These include learning and practicing pronunciation of keywords, adopting spoken language rather than written language for your speech, increasing the readability of your slides by reducing the amount of words on them, developing a relationship with the audience, and providing variation to keep the audience attentive. It should also be noted that language and presentation style have changed over the years and will continue to change.","PeriodicalId":260786,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129767021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inter-individual communication of large-billed crows: hearing, seeing, and touching","authors":"E. Izawa","doi":"10.2502/JANIP.67.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2502/JANIP.67.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Large-billed crows, Corvus macrorhynchos , are one of familiar resident birds in Japan. They are originally jungle / forest-dwelling birds but now broaden their habitats to urban ‘concrete jungle’ environments such as Tokyo and Sapporo. Despite the close and overlapping range of the habitat between humans and crows, the socio-behavioural function of crows and its psychological and neural underpinnings have been poorly understood. Here, I review the recent studies in animal psychology on inter-individual communication for the understanding of individual-based social ecology of large-billed crows. Particular focuses are made on audio-vocal, visual, and tactile communication. First, vocal exchange with a contact call ( ka call) and the acoustic individuality of ka calls as an identity signal are outlined. Second topic for visual communication is on audio-visual cross-modal recognition of familiar individuals and the involvement of the individual recognition in the formation and maintenance of dominance relationship. Finally, nonreciprocal but unidirectional allopreening from dominants to subordinates in juvenile males is shown and its possible social function are discussed. To further understand the communication of crows from comparative perspectives, these findings of social behaviour and its function should be integrated with physiological research on the... onto the life-history axis of this species which is characterized by drastic change of social structures between juvenile and pair-bond stages.","PeriodicalId":260786,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127210986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oxytocin bonds between human and dog","authors":"T. Kikusui","doi":"10.2502/JANIP.67.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2502/JANIP.67.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"During domestication/evolution process of dogs, dogs have acquired human-like nonverbal communication skills, such as gaze and pointing following by humans, and gaze alternative behavior toward the owners. These skills, especially using eye gaze, are believed to promote the co-habituation of dogs in human society. Not only the communicative function of dog’s eye-gaze with humans, it works as to form bonding between them. Eye-gaze from dogs to their owners increased urinary oxytocin, and the owner showed affiliative interactions with their dogs, which in turn, stimulate oxytocin release in dogs. Oxytocin is a hypothalamic neuropeptide stimulate maternal behavior as well as social interactions. Therefore, human and dogs can form a biological bonding via oxytocin positive loop in both sides. This type of positive loop was not observed in wolves, suggesting that dogs have acquired this function in their domestication process. Future behavioral genetic research will reveal the critical genes responsible for human-dog interaction, which would shed a light on the critical questions; “why”, “how” and “when” dogs become a Man’s best friend.","PeriodicalId":260786,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132060277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of response deadlines on the performance of sequential lever-pressing task in rats (Rattus norvegicus)","authors":"Y. Sekiguchi, T. Hata","doi":"10.2502/JANIP.66.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2502/JANIP.66.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated the effects of deadlines on rats’ ( Rattus norvegicus ) performance of learned actions. Rats were trained to alternately press two levers four times when they were presented with a light or tone, which signaled two different conditions. We measured the length of time each rat needed to complete the task in the baseline phase. In the LIMITED condition, we used the longest time as the deadline for all rats. In the FREE condition, the deadlines were virtually unrestrictive. We found that in the LIMITED condition rats made more errors than in the FREE condition. These errors were not rats repeatedly pressing one lever, but were incomplete responses in the correct order. Although the response time in the correct trials in either condition did not differed significantly, this change in performance was partially in line with the previous studies of humans. Therefore, we propose this experimental protocol is useful for measuring the decrement of the performance accuracy under the deadline.","PeriodicalId":260786,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128591422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Qualitative and quantitative evaluations of mathematical models for animal learning and behaviors","authors":"K. Katahira","doi":"10.2502/JANIP.66.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2502/JANIP.66.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Mathematical or computational models have played important roles in investigating animal behaviors and underlying processes. A traditional approach in psychology to evaluate such models is “qualitative” one, which examines whether the model can explain observed phenomena or not. In contrast, “quantitative” approaches, which evaluate how well the model can account for the observed data compared to alternative models, have been proved useful especially in neuroscience. This article reviews the quantitative approaches to model evaluation. The advantages and limitations of the quantitative approaches are discussed. The author suggest that the quantitative and qualitative approaches are complimentary and jointly provide a powerful framework for investigating psychological processes underlying animal learning and behaviors.","PeriodicalId":260786,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129824160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of studies on grooming reciprocity in primates","authors":"Masataka Ueno","doi":"10.2502/JANIP.66.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2502/JANIP.66.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"Many researchers have investigated why and how animals benefit from each other in a group. Grooming is considered as prosocial behavior in animal societies; the groomer expends time and energy costs, while the groomee receives hygienic and physiological benefits. Based on the reciprocal altruism hypothesis (Trivers, 1971), many researchers have investigated grooming behaviors in primate species. In primates, individuals exchange grooming for grooming or other social benefits (e.g., tolerance for food, agonistic support, or infant handling). Researchers have also established and modified models of grooming reciprocity. In future researches, it would be valuable to investigate the effects of affiliative relationships, soliciting behaviors, self-rewarding, inequity aversion, and partner choice and partner switching on prosocial behaviors.","PeriodicalId":260786,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134502068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A complex adaptive system may be essential for cumulative modifications in tool design","authors":"G. Hunt, Natalie T Uomini","doi":"10.2502/JANIP.66.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2502/JANIP.66.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"The cumulative modification of tool designs over time is a crucial development for technological evolution. Cognitive-related prerequisites for this technological capability are innovative behaviour and the faithful inter-generational transmission and maintenance of tool designs by accurate social learning processes. Here, we investigated the hypothesis that a complex of morphological and behavioural adaptations specifically for tool skills is also required. In a novel analysis we compared the tool-associated adaptive patterns in Homo erectus and the New Caledonian crow. Both species provide the most convincing early Homo and nonhuman evidence, respectively, for the making of cumulatively modified tools. We identified probable shared traits in H. erectus and the New Caledonian crow that include morphological adaptations specifically for enhanced tool manipulation and a significant component of daily diet from hunting and/or processing animal food with tools. We propose that a tool-using lifestyle based on animal food that confers a reproductive advantage and evolves enhanced tool manipulation skills, together with appropriate innovative ability and social learning processes, may be essential for cumulative modification of tool designs.","PeriodicalId":260786,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121426798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}