2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Biological origins of auditory cognitive ability in small apes and primates
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19730461
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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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 |
KODA Hiroki Kyoto University, 霊長類研究所, 助教 (70418763)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | テナガザル / 霊長類 / 聴覚的選好性 |
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| Research Abstract |
I investigated the preference and cognitive features for auditory stimuli on non-human primate, including gibbons and the other Old World monkeys. I used the experimental paradigm requiring the special and intensive training and conditioning, which are auditory sensory reinforcement, to measure the auditory preference of primates. For the auditory sensory reinforcement, the body movements and orientation is reinforced by the sensory stimuli of consonant, dissonant, and biological sounds. The results revealed that monkey did not show the preference for the consonant stimuli, contrary to human auditory preference.
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