Comparative Cognition

James R. Anderson is Professor in Psychology at Kyoto University, Japan. He has previously held positions at the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France) and the University of Stirling (Scotland). For several decades his research has focused mainly on social behavior and communication, as well as learning and cognition in various nonhuman primate species. He has also conducted research on environmental enrichment for captive primates, and studied baboons and chimpanzees in west Africa. Many of his studies have been collaborative projects with psychologists and primatologists from various countries and several continents.  Hika Kuroshima is Associate Professor in Psychology at Kyoto University, Japan. She graduated with a BA from Osaka City University in 1998, and received her PhD in Psychology from Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters in 2003, for her research on social cognition in squirrel monkeys and capuchin monkeys. She has been one of Prof. Fujita’s many students in the Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto, where she currently directs the Comparative Cognitive Science Laboratory, following Prof. Fujita's retirement. Her main research focus is social cognition in New World monkeys and companion animals, topics on which she has collaborated with co-editor Anderson since she was a Masters course student.

Chapter 1. Amodal Completion, and Recognizing the Meaning of Cognitive Diversity.- Chapter 2. Visual Illusions: Insights from Comparative Cognition.- Chapter 3. Comparative Studies on Geometric Illusions: A Review of Methods.- Chapter 4. It Takes One to Know One: Do Human and Nonhuman Primates Share Similar Face Processing?- Chapter 5. Factors Affecting Facial Recognition in Capuchin Monkeys.- Chapter 6. Visual Body Perception in Primates: From Individual to Social Dyad.- Chapter 7. Attending to Others’ Visual Attention.- Chapter 8. Understanding Others’ Behavior: Effect of One’s Own Experience.- Chapter 9. Behavioral Coordination and Synchronization in Non-human Primates.- Chapter 10. The Lasting and the Passing: Behavioral Traditions and Opportunities for Social.- Chapter 11. Capuchins (Sapajus apella) and Their Aversion to Inequity.- Chapter 12. Evolutionary Perspective on Prosocial Behaviors in Nonhuman Animals.- Chapter 13. Social Evaluation in Non-human Animals.- Chapter 14. Planning Abilities in Nonhuman Animals: In Search of the Evolutionary Origins of “Thought”.- Chapter 15. Studies of Prospective Information-seeking in Capuchin Monkeys, Pigeons and Human Children.- Chapter 16. Worth the Wait: Evidence for Self-Control in Nonhuman Primates.- Chapter 17. Developments in Research on Cat Cognition and Personality.- Chapter 18. Dog-Human Attachment as an Aspect of Social Cognition: Evaluating the Secure Base Test.