| Project/Area Number |
26885040
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
Kano Fumihiro 京都大学, 野生動物研究センター, 助教 (70739565)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | 類人猿 / アイ・トラッキング / サーモ・イメージング / エピソード記憶 / 予測的注視 / 感情生理反応 / アイ・コンタクト / 感情 / 交感神経 / 体表温度 / 社会的注意 / チンパンジー / ボノボ / サーモ・カメラ |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Using cutting edge technologies, I have examined cognition and emotion of bonobos and chimpanzees. Using eye-tracking, I found that great apes can make anticipatory looks to impending events that they observed only once, one-day ago. This suggests that apes have a human-like episodic memory (at least part of it). I also found that bonobos look at the other individuals' eyes for a longer duration than do chimpanzees, presumably reflecting their differences in socio-emotional reactivities. I also established a thermo-imaging method that can track nasal temperature changes as significant indicators of their emotional reactions. Overall, I enhanced the understandings about mental functions of great apes using novel methods, and also further developed methods that should be much useful for the future studies.
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