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SENSORIMOTOR AND COGNITIVE INTEGRATION FOR TOOL USE

Research Project

Project/Area Number 23570283
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Physical anthropology
Research InstitutionKyorin University

Principal Investigator

HIRAI Naoki  杏林大学, 医学部, 名誉教授 (40086583)

Research Collaborator HONOGO Toshinori  元東京都神経科学総合研究所, 所長 (60013843)
SASAKI Shigeto  元東京都神経科学総合研究所, 参事研究員 (50110490)
UOTANI Kyoutaro  杏林大学, 非常勤講師
INATOMI Takami  杏林大学, 実験助手
Project Period (FY) 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Keywordstool use / primate / sensorimotor integration / motor plan / creativity / similarity rule / 道具使用 / 感覚と運動 / 道具と認知 / 霊長類 / 運動プラン / 認知 / 感覚運動連関 / ニホンザル / 感覚運動関連
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We aimed to determine how Japanese monkeys acquire the motor-movement for tool (forceps) use after kinematic analysis under the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals by the National Research Council. Three monkeys had already learned to use forceps to pick up food using the right hand when the forceps were presented in their front-right side facing food placed on their left (Hirai et al., 2010). When we presented the same forceps with opposite orientation of the original, they refused to act on the forceps. However, they learned to handle the forceps at any orientation in 10-12 days through their active and, importantly, individual learning processes of forceps use reflecting different experience. We can draw out the latent abilities of the monkeys to use a pair of forceps as a “tool”; they had the ability to do the following: 1) conduct advance planning and 2) possess potential knowledge of the causal relationship between their own action on the forceps and its result.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • 2011 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2014 2013 Other

All Presentation (9 results)

  • [Presentation] 道具使用の学習過程:サルの道具による把持動作のためのpre-shaping動作形成過程2014

    • Author(s)
      平井直樹
    • Organizer
      第68回日本人類学会
    • Place of Presentation
      アクトシティ浜松 コングレスセンター
    • Year and Date
      2014-10-31 – 2014-11-02
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 道具使用の運動学習:ニホンザルのピンセット使用時の順序学習.2014

    • Author(s)
      平井直樹
    • Organizer
      第30回日本霊長類学会
    • Place of Presentation
      大阪科学技術センタービル
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-04 – 2014-07-05
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 道具使用の運動学習:ニホンザルのピンセット使用2014

    • Author(s)
      平井直樹
    • Organizer
      第30回日本霊長類学会
    • Place of Presentation
      大阪市
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ニホンサルMacaca fuscata の道具使用の学習過程 -初めて道具を使う時の視覚情報の役割(第2報)-2013

    • Author(s)
      平井直樹
    • Organizer
      第29回日本霊長類学会
    • Place of Presentation
      岡山市
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The process of learning tool-use movements in monkeys: Trajectory learning for target-reaching with hand-held forceps

    • Author(s)
      Uotani K, Hongo T, Sasaki S, Naito K, Inatomi T, Hirai N.
    • Organizer
      The 66th Annual Meeting of the Anthoropological Society of Nippon
    • Place of Presentation
      Hiyoshi, Kanagawa Pref
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Cereberal sulci and gyri obserbed on macaque endocasts. Replacement of Neanderthals by modaern humans: Testing evolutionary models of learning.

    • Author(s)
      Kobayashi Y, Matusi Y, Haizuka N, Ogihara N, Hirai N, Matsumura G
    • Organizer
      Intern Conf on RNMH Project
    • Place of Presentation
      Hitotubashi, Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Evaluating cortical subdivisions using monkey skulls

    • Author(s)
      Kobayashi Y, Matusi Y, Haizuka N, Ogihara N, Hirai N, Matsumura G
    • Organizer
      The 35th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society
    • Place of Presentation
      Nagoya, Aichi Pref
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] A comparison of grasping objects with the hand and a tool (forceps) in monkeys.

    • Author(s)
      Hirai N., Hongo T, Sasaki S, Naito K, Inatomi T, Uotani K:
    • Organizer
      第34回日本神経科学大会
    • Place of Presentation
      横浜
    • Related Report
      2011 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Learning Process of grasping objects with a tool in monkeys.

    • Author(s)
      Hirai N., Hongo T., Sasaki S., Naito K., Inatomi T., Uotani K
    • Organizer
      第65回日本人類学会
    • Place of Presentation
      那覇
    • Related Report
      2011 Research-status Report

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Published: 2011-08-05   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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