Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa (Japanese松 沢 哲 郎, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, * October 15, 1950 ) is a Japanese primatologist and ethologist and currently director of the renowned Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University.
Biography
Matsuzawa is a student of the famous Japanese primatologist and founder of the Primate Research Center, Kinji Imanishi and Itani Jun'ichirô. Matsuzawas research interests lie in the study of memory performance in apes, especially chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). A particular focus of his research focus is on the female chimpanzee "Ai", which has been tested since 1978 with various cognitive experiments, the on their memory for series of numbers.
Another focus of Matzuzawas research is to investigate the abilities of chimpanzees to develop different tools and for different activities, such as foraging to use and apply.
Awards
- Prince Chichibu Memorial Science Award, 1991
- Jane Goodall Award, 2001
- Merit on the purple tape, 2004
- Person with special cultural merits, 2013
Works
- Mind of the Chimpanzee: Ecological and Experimental Perspectives, University of Chicago Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0226492780
Publications (selection)
- Matsuzawa, T. ( 1985): Use of numbers by a chimpanzee. Nature, 315, 57-59
- Matsuzawa, T. ( 1986): Spontaneous sorting in man and chimpanzee. Primate Report, 14, 180
- Matsuzawa, T. ( 1991): Nesting cups and meta -tool in chimpanzees. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14 ( 4), 570-571
- Matsuzawa, T. (1997): Phylogeny of intelligence: A view from cognitive behavior of chimpanzees. IIAS Reports, No.1997 -004, 17-26
- Iversen, I. & Matsuzawa, T. ( 2001): Acquisition of navigation in to automated fingermaze task for the chimpanzee. Animal Cognition, 4: 179-192
- Tanaka, M., Tomonaga, M. & Matsuzawa, T. ( 2003): Finger drawing by infant chimpanzees (Pan toroglodytes ). Animal Cognition, 6:245-251
- Hayashi, M., Mizuno, Y., & Matsuzawa, T. ( 2005): How does the stone -tool use emerge? Introduction of stones and nuts to naive chimpanzees in captivity. Primates, 46:91-102