Hideko Takeshita
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hideko Takeshita 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 The supine position of postnatal human infants: Implications for the development of cognitive intelligence Social Animal Cognition, Matsuzawa, Tetsuro (ed.), pp. 252–269 | Article
In this review, we discuss the implications of placing an infant in the supine position with respect to human cognitive development and evolution. When human infants are born, they are relatively large and immature in terms of postural and locomotor ability as compared with their closest… read more