Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 376(1827) 20200025-20200025 2021年6月
In humans, support from partners and alloparents is crucial for successful child-rearing and optimal child development. However, the complex relationships among childcare support, children's outcomes and parental characteristics have not been full...
Dogs and cats are sensitive to human social signals such as pointing, gazing and facial expressions. Previous studies have demonstrated that dogs show over-reliance on human actions in the presence of conflicting physical cues. However, it is stil...
Saito, A.   Shinozuka, K   Ito, Y   Hasegawa, T   
Scientific Reports 9(1) 5394-5394 2019年4月 [査読有り]
Two of the most common nonhuman animals that interact with humans are domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) and cats (Felis catus). In contrast to dogs, the ability of domestic cats to communicate with humans has not been explored thoroughly. We used a...
Protanomalous females with X chromosome-linked color vision deficiency exhibit mild abnormalities, whereas dichromats show a distinct deficiency in discriminating certain color pairs. Dichromats have an advantage in detecting a textured target whe...
Takagi, S   Arahori, M   Chijiiwa, H   Saito, A.   Kuroshima, H   Fujita, K   
Animal Cognition 22(5) 901-906 2019年 [査読有り]
We examined whether cats have a cross-modal representation of humans, using a cross-modal expectancy violation paradigm originally used with dogs by Adachi et al. (Anim Cogn 10:17-21, 2007). We compared cats living in houses and in cat cafes to as...