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Empirical studies on physiological and evolutional origins of innate fear.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25285199
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypePartial Multi-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Experimental psychology
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

KAWAI Nobuyuki  名古屋大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (30335062)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 香田 啓貴  京都大学, 霊長類研究所, 助教 (70418763)
Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥16,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,720,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥9,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,100,000)
Keywords恐怖 / 霊長類 / 生得性 / 脳波 / ヘビ・クモ / 進化 / ヘビ・クモ
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Effective detections for a potential threat are important for survival. Humans seem to have a predisposed visual system to attend threatening objects, especially snakes. Although both snakes and spiders have been regarded as the prototypical evolutionary threat-relevant stimuli, there is only evidence that snakes constituted a serious threat to humans. We compared reaction times to detect deviant pictures of snakes and spiders in the background of non-threatening koala pictures by monkeys and humans, and found that the RTs to detect snakes were faster than to detect koalas, whereas the RTs to detect deviant pictures of spiders did not differ from those to detect koalas. We explored a possibility that spiders may be prototypical evolutionary threat-relevant stimuli in other ways and confirmed that only snakes provided strong evolutionary pressure to develop astute perceptual capacities in ancestral primates. Primates and humans evolved visual systems to detect snakes more efficiently.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Annual Research Report
  • 2014 Annual Research Report
  • 2013 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 Other

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 4 results,  Open Access: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (7 results)

  • [Journal Article] Conserved evolutionary history for quick detection of threatening faces2016

    • Author(s)
      Kawai, N., Kubo, K., Masataka, N. & Hayakawa, S.
    • Journal Title

      Animal Cognition

      Volume: 19(3) Issue: 3 Pages: 655-60

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10071-015-0949-y

    • NAID

      120005868224

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report 2015 Annual Research Report 2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) quickly detect snakes but not spiders: evolutionary origins of fear-relevant animals2016

    • Author(s)
      Kawai N, Koda H
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Comparative Psychology

      Volume: 130 Issue: 3 Pages: 299-303

    • DOI

      10.1037/com0000032

    • NAID

      120005855939

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report 2015 Annual Research Report 2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Breaking snake camouflage: Humans detect snakes more accurately than other animals under less discernible visual conditions.2016

    • Author(s)
      N. Kawai, & H. He
    • Journal Title

      PLoS ONE

      Volume: 11 Issue: 10 Pages: e0164342-e0164342

    • DOI

      10.1371/journal.pone.0164342

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) spontaneously associate alarm calls with snakes appearing in the left visual field.2014

    • Author(s)
      Shibasaki M, Nagumo S, Koda H
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Comparative Psychology

      Volume: 印刷中

    • NAID

      120005468371

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Evolutionarily predisposed snake fear: Comparative, Developmental, and Electrophysiological studies2016

    • Author(s)
      Kawai, N.
    • Organizer
      The 5th International Symposium on Primatology and Wildlife Science
    • Place of Presentation
      Inuyama International Sightseeing Center (Freude)(Inuyama, Aichi)
    • Year and Date
      2016-03-03
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report 2014 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] これからの行動科学研究に必要なこと:行動・神経・数理

    • Author(s)
      川合伸幸
    • Organizer
      学術シンポジウム「生物・医学分野のイノベーションが心理学に与えるインパクト」
    • Place of Presentation
      兵庫県民会館
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] ヒトの心の働きと成り立ちを調べる ―比較認知心理学ー

    • Author(s)
      川合伸幸
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会公開シンポジウム「心を科学する”心理学”」
    • Place of Presentation
      名古屋大学 東山キャンパス
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] 日本のサル 哺乳類学としてのニホンザル研究(中川尚史・辻大和編)2017

    • Author(s)
      香田啓貴
    • Total Pages
      336
    • Publisher
      東京大学出版会
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 「認知科学のススメ」シリーズ 1 『はじめての認知科学』2016

    • Author(s)
      内村直之, 植田一博, 今井むつみ, 川合伸幸, 嶋田総太郎, 橋田浩一
    • Total Pages
      178
    • Publisher
      新曜社
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 「認知科学のススメ」シリーズ 2  『コワイの認知科学』2016

    • Author(s)
      川合伸幸
    • Total Pages
      130
    • Publisher
      新曜社
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 「認知科学のススメ」シリーズ 1 『はじめての認知科学』2016

    • Author(s)
      内村直之, 植田一博, 今井むつみ, 川合伸幸, 嶋田総太郎, 橋田浩一
    • Total Pages
      178
    • Publisher
      新曜社
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 「認知科学のススメ」シリーズ 2 『コワイの認知科学』2016

    • Author(s)
      川合伸幸
    • Total Pages
      130
    • Publisher
      新曜社
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] ヒトの本性 : なぜ殺し、なぜ助け合うのか (講談社現代新書:2344)2015

    • Author(s)
      川合伸幸
    • Total Pages
      216
    • Publisher
      講談社
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report 2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 最新 心理学辞典, 「生得的解発機構」2013

    • Author(s)
      川合伸幸
    • Publisher
      平凡社
    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report

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