Kazuhiro Goto Last updated: Nov 1, 2019 at 18:01
Name
Kazuhiro Goto Affiliation
Sagami Women's University Section
Faculty of Human Society Department of Human Psychology Job title
Associate Professor Degree
PhD(University of Exeter)
Profile My research interests are in the general area of cognitive science. One focus of my current research is to examine the mechanisms of visual cognition. Birds and primates are visually dominant despite their phylogenetic distance. I investigate similarities and differences regarding aspects of visual cognition to uncover phylogenetic and adaptive characteristics of the two. Another focus is on left-right asymmetry (aka laterality). Left-right asymmetry is a fundamental feature of brain function, and a group of molecular biologists identified structural and functional asymmetries in the circuitry of the mouse hippocampus based on the asymmetrical distribution of NMDA receptor NR2B subunits. I collaborate with them to study effects of this asymmetry defect on learning and memory.
Research Interests
audition(11) ,
evolution(210) ,
behavior(85) ,
comparative cognition(10) ,
operant conditioning(7) ,
visual search(4) ,
selective attention(4) ,
working memory(38) ,
metacognition(29) ,
fMRI(123) ,
primate(25) ,
vision(92) ,
laterality(12) ,
cognition(103) ,
perception(62) ,
memory(166) ,
attention(67) ,
bird(10) Academic & Professional Experience
Apr 2017
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Associate Professor, Sagami Women's University
Apr 2012
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Mar 2017
Lecturer, Sagami Women's University
May 2010
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Postdoc Fellow, Career-Path Promotion Unit for Young Life Scientists, Kyoto University
May 2009
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Mar 2010
Postdoc Fellow, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University
Apr 2006
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Mar 2009
Postdoc Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Keio University
Committee Memberships
Mar 2018
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Animal Cognition Associate Editor
Feb 2018
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Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science Reviewing Editors
Jan 2018
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Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology Advisory Board
Aug 2017
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Japanese Psychological Association Editorial board member in Psychology World
Feb 2013
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Dec 2017
Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology Managing Editor
Awards & Honors
Aug 2018
Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology Award, Japanese Society for Animal Psychology
Winner: Hisashi Nakao, Kazuhiro Goto
Mar 2011
Young Investigator Award (Coauthor), Japanese Psychonomic Society
Winner: Otaki, S., Goto, K., & Watanabe, S.
Mar 2010
Poster Presentation Award, HOPE-GM International Symposium "HOPE-GM LECTURES ON PRIMATE MIND and SOCIETY"
Winner: Goto, K., & Watanabe, S.
Sep 2009
Young Investigator Award (Coauthor), Japanese Society for Animal Psychology
Winner: Otaki, S., Goto, K., & Watanabe, S.
Apr 2003
Experimental Fellowship, Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA)
Winner: Goto, K.
Published Papers
Goto, K., & Ito, I.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 139(C) 50-55 Mar 2017 [Refereed]
Yamamoto, E., Goto, K., & Watanabe, S.
Animal Cognition 18(5) 1187-1191 Sep 2015 [Refereed]
Nakao, H., & Goto, K.
Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology 65(1) 45-58 Jun 2015 [Refereed]
Sawa, K., & Goto, K.
Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology 64(2) 47-49 Dec 2014 [Refereed]
Altmann C. F. , Terada, S., Kashino, M., Goto, K., Mima, T., Fukuyama, H., & Furukawa, S.
Hearing Research 312 121-127 Jun 2014 [Refereed]
Misc
Work-life balance and Childcare leave
Kazuhiro Goto
Psychology World 82 44-45 Jul 2018
Directions of species comparison in comparative cognition studies
Kazuhiro Goto
The 21st Proceedings of Japanese Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior 2014
Kazuhiro Goto
Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science 30 145-146 Sep 2011
Span of attentional spotlight in pigeon visual search
Goto, K., Otaki, S., & Watanabe, S.
IEICE Technical Report 111(96) 73-77 Jun 2011
Diversity in mind
Goto, K.
Kokoro no Mirai 6 24-27 Apr 2011 [Invited]
Conspecific recognition in video images in Java sparrows (Padda oryzivora)
Goto, K., Ohara, M., & Watanabe, S.
Philosophy 121 133-145 Mar 2009 [Invited]
Chocolate as a mood modulator - Experimental analysis -
Watanabe, S., Furuya, I., Yamazaki, Y., Fujisaki, T., Kusayama, T., Goto, K., Nishiwaki, R., & Suzuki, T.
Studies in sociology, psychology and education 54 13-22 Sep 2002
Books etc
Different animals, different solutions: comparative views on animal parenting
Kazuhiro Goto (Part:Contributor, Chapter 5 Mechanisms of reproduction and parental behaviors in rats)
University of Tokyo Press Oct 2019
Introduction to Developmental Psychology
Kazuhiro Goto (Part:Contributor, Chapter 12 Learning theories)
University of Tokyo Press Jan 2018
Research Grants & Projects
Comparative cognition of metacognition using information-seeking paradigms
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Project Year: Apr 2017 - Mar 2020 Investigator(s): Kazuhiro Goto
Discrimination of relative numerosity and assessment of the SNARC effect
Japan Science Society: Travel grant for international conferences
Project Year: Apr 2019 Investigator(s): Kazuhiro Goto
Comparative developmental studies on emergent Gestalts
Japan Society for Promotion of Science: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Project Year: Apr 2013 - Mar 2015 Investigator(s): Kazuhiro Goto
Understanding difference in vision between birds and primates
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Project Year: Oct 2010 - Mar 2013
Phylogenetic analysis of perceptual organization
Japan Science Society: Sasagawa Science Grant
Project Year: Apr 2012 - Feb 2013 Investigator(s): Kazuhiro Goto
