Masayuki Tanaka
List of John Benjamins publications for which Masayuki Tanaka plays a role.
Articles
2009 Copying a model stack of colored blocks by chimpanzees and humans Social Animal Cognition, Matsuzawa, Tetsuro (ed.), pp. 130–149 | Article
The present study assesses imitative ability in chimpanzees and human children. A direct comparison of these two species was conducted in an object-manipulation task. The subjects were required to copy the model stack by stacking colored blocks in the same order as the model. Four… read more
2009 How did altruism and reciprocity evolve in humans? Perspectives from experiments on chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Social Animal Cognition, Matsuzawa, Tetsuro (ed.), pp. 150–182 | Article
The evolution of altruism and reciprocity has been explained mainly from ultimate perspectives. However, in order to understand from a proximate perspective how humans evolved to be such cooperative animals, comparative studies with our evolutionary relatives are essential. Here we review several… read more