Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Biolinguistics

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1 Name: Kazuo Okanoya, Ph.D. Position Title: Education: Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Biolinguistics M.S. Biopsychology 1986 University of Maryland, USA Ph.D. Biopsychology 1989 University of Maryland, USA Positions and Research Theme: Master s Research: Hearing in songbirds, with Dr. Robert J. Dooling, University of Maryland, USA Doctorate Research: Auditory perception in songbirds, with Dr. Robert J. Dooling, University of Maryland, USA Post-Doctoral Fellow: Perceptual mechanisms of species specific calls in Bengalese finches, JSPS, JAPAN Post-Doctoral Fellow: Auditory feedback and song control in Bengalese finches, JST, JAPAN Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters: Chiba University, JAPAN Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University, JAPAN present Laboratory Head, Biolinguistics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, JAPAN present 2008-present Competitive Grants: Visiting Professor, Chiba University, Tokyo University, Keio University Research Director, ERATO OKANOYA Emotional Information Project, JST, JAPAN Post Doctoral Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Post Doctoral Fellowship, Japan Science and Technology Corporation Post Doctoral Fellowship, Inoue Foundation for the Promotion of Science PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (Intelligence and Construction) PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (Intelligence and Information) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas(C), Grant-in-Aid for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Grant-in-Aid for PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (Cooperation and Control) Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Grant-in-Aid for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Grant-in-Aid for 1

2 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Grant-in-Aid for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Grant-in-Aid for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency Honors: 2001 Best paper in comparative psychology (year 2000), American Psychological Association 2009 The JASTJ Prize 2009, Japanese Association of Science & Technology Journalists 2009 Nakayama Grand Prix Award 2009, Nakayama Foundation for Human Science 2

3 Original papers published in refereed journals: Park, T., Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1985). Operant conditioning of small birds for acoustic discrimination. Journal of Ethology, 3, 5-9. Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1985). Colony differences in auditory thresholds in the canary (Serinus canarius). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 78, Dooling, R. J., Okanoya, K., Downing, J. & Hulse, S. (1986). Hearing in the starling (Sturnus vulgaris): Absolute thresholds and critical ratios. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 24, Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1987). Hearing in passerine and psittacine birds: a comparative study of absolute and masked auditory thresholds. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 101, Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1987). Strain differences in auditory thresholds in the canary (Serinus canarius). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 101, Dooling, R. J., Brown, S. D., Park, T. J., Okanoya, K. & Soli, S. D. (1987). Perceptual organization of acoustic stimuli by Budgerigar(Melopsittacus undulatus): I. Pure tones. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 101, Dooling, R. J., Park, T. J., Brown, S. D., Okanoya, K., & Soli, S. D. (1987). Perceptual organization of acoustical stimuli in the budgerigar: II. Vocal signals. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 101, Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1988). Obtaining acoustic similarity measures from animals: a method for species comparisons. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 83, Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1988). Hearing in the swamp sparrow, Melospiza georgiana, and the song sparrow, Melospiza melodia. Animal Behaviour, 36, Downing, J. D., Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1988). Auditory short-term memory in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus). Animal learning and behavior, 16, Hashino, E. & Okanoya, K.(1989). Auditory sensitivity in the zebra finch (Poephila guttata castanotis). Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E), 10, Dooling, R. J., Okanoya, K., Brown, S. (1989). Speech perception by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) :The voiced-voiceless distinction. Perception and Psychophysics, 46, Park, T. J., Dooling, R. J., Rock, S., & Okanoya, K. (1989). Discrimination of natural contact calls in two strains of canary and the budgerigar. Journal of Ethology, 7, Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1990). Song-syllable perception in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) and swamp sparrows (Melospiza georgiana): An approach from animal psychophysics. Bulletin of Psychonomic Society, 28, Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1990). Temporal integration in zebra finches (Poephila guttata). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 87,

4 Okanoya, K., Dooling, R. J., & Downing, J. D. (1990). Hearing and vocalizations in hybrid Waterslager-Roller canaries(serinus canarius). Hearing Research, 46, Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1990). Detection of gaps in noise by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and zebra finches (Poephila guttata). Hearing Research, 50, Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1990). Detection of auditory sinusoides of fixed and uncertain frequency by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and zebra finches (Poephila guttata). Hearing Research, 50, Dooling, R. J., Park, T. J., Brown, S. D. & Okanoya, K. (1990). Perception of species-specific vocalizations by isolate-reared budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 4, Okanoya, K. & Dooling, R. J. (1991). Perception of distance calls by budgerigars(melopsittacus undulatus) and zebra finches(poephila guttata): assessing species-specific advantages. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 105, Mahalati, K., Okanoya, K., Witt, D. M. & Carter, C. S. (1991). Oxytocin inhibits male sexual behavior in Prairie Voles. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior, 39, Okanoya, K., & Dooling, R. J. (1991). Detection of species-specific distance calls in noise by zebra finches (Poephila guttata) and budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): Time or frequency domain? Bioacoustics, 3, Klump, G. & Okanoya, K. (1991). Temporal modulation transfer functions in the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris): I. Psychological modulation detection thresholds. Hearing Research, 52, Kreutzer, M. L., Dooling, R. J., Brown, S. D. & Okanoya, K. (1991). A comparison of song syllable perception by five species of birds. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 4, Yoneda, T. & Okanoya, K. (1991). Ontogeny of sexually dimorphic distance calls in Bengalese finches(lonchura domestica). Journal of Ethology, 9, Dooling, R. J., Brown, S. D., Klump, G. M. & Okanoya, K. (1992). Auditory perception of conspecific and heterospecific vocalizations in birds: evidence for special processes. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 106, Okanoya, K., Yoneda, T. & Kimura, T. (1993). Acoustical variations in sexually dimorphic features of distance calls in domesticated zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis). Journal of Ethology, 11, 梅田 岡ノ谷 中村 古屋 (1993). ムクドリのオペラント条件づけ Japanese Journal of Ornithology, 41, Okanoya, K. & Kimura, T. (1993). Acoustical and perceptual structures of sexually dimorphic distance calls in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata domestica). Journal of Comparative 4

5 Psychology, 107, Okanoya, K. & Kimura, T. (1993). A software bird call detector and its application to automated playback experiments. Bioacoustics, 5, Okanoya, K. & Yoneda, T. (1995). Effects of Tracheosyringeal nerve section on sexually dimorphic distance calls in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica). Zoological Science, 12, Okanoya, K., Yoneda, T., & Iseki, S. (1995). Distance calls of the wild white-backed munia in Kijoka, Okinawa. Japanese Journal of Ornithology, 44, Okanoya, K. (1996). Psychometric functions for detection of pure tone stimuli in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica) and Zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis). Journal of Acoustical Society of Japan (E), 17, Okanoya, K. (1997). Voco-auditory behavior in the Bengalese finch: a comparison with the zebra finch. Biomedical Research, 18, S1, Okanoya, K. & Yamaguchi, A. (1997). Adult Bengalese finches(lonchura striata var. domestica) require real-time auditory feedback to produce normal song syntax. Journal of Neurobiology, 33, Ikebuchi, M. & Okanoya, K. (1999). Male zebra finches and Bengalese finches emit directed songs to the video images of conspecific females projected onto a TFT display. Zoological Science, 16, Honda, E. & Okanoya, K. (1999). Acoustical and syntactical comparisons between songs of the White-backed munia(lonchura striata) and its domesticated strain, the Bengalese finch. Zoological Science. 16, Kimura, T., Okanoya, K. & Wada, M. (1999). Effect of testosterone on the distribution of vasotocin immunoreactivity in the brain of the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata castanotis. Life Sciences, 65, Ikebuchi, M. & Okanoya, K. (2000). Limited auditory memory for conspecific songs in a non-territorial songbird. NeuroReport, 11, Hosino, T. & Okanoya, K. (2000). Lesion of a higher-order song nucleus disrupts phrase level complexity in Bengalese finches. NeuroReport, 11, Okanoya, K. (2000). Perception of missing fundamentals in zebra finches and Bengalese finches. Journal of Acoustical Society of Japan (E), 21, Okanoya, K., Tsumaki, S. & Honda, E. (2000). Perception of temporal properties in self-generated songs by Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica). Journal of. Comparative.Psychology, 114, Okanoya, K., Ikebuchi, M., Uno, H., & Watanabe, S. (2001). Left-side dominance for song discrimination in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica). Animal Cognition, 4, 5

6 Kobayashi, K., Uno, H. & Okanoya, K. (2001). Partial lesions in the anterior forebrain pathway affect song production in adult Bengalese finches. NeuroReport, 12, 岡ノ谷一夫 (2002). 鳥の歌認知における種差 性差 個体差 動物心理学研究, 52, Endo, H., Okanoya, K., Park, T. J., Sasaki,M., Tanemura,K., Kimura,J., & Hayashi,Y. (2002).Localization of the Cytochrome P450 side-chain cleavage enzyme in the inactive testis of the naked mole-rat. Zoological Science, 19, Endo, H., Okanoya, K., Matsubayashi,H., Kimura,J., Sasaki,M., Fukuta, K., & Suzuki,N. (2003). Three-dimensional Image Analysis of the Thin Abdominal Wall in the Naked Mole-Rat and the Lesser Mouse Deer. Jpn. J. Zoo Wildl. Med., 8, Kobayasi, K. & Okanoya, K. (2003). Context-dependent song amplitude control in Bengalese finches. NeuroReport, 14, Hihara, S., Yamada, H., Iriki, A., & Okanoya, K. (2003). Spontaneous vocal differentiation of coo-calls for tools and food in Japanese monkeys. Neuroscience Research, 45, Ikebuchi, M. & Okanoya, K. (2003). Sex differences in song perception in Bengalese finches measured by the caridac response. Animal Behaviour, 65, Kobayashi, K., Okanoya, K. (2003). Sex differences in amplitude regulation of distance calls in Bengalese finches, Lunchula striata var domestica. Animal Biology. Yamada, H., & Okanoya, K. (2003). Song syntax changes in Bengalese finches singing in a helium atomosphere. Neuroreport, 14, Mizuta, T., Yamada, H., Lin, R. S., Yodogawa, Y., & Okanoya, K. (2003). Sexing white-rumped munias in Taiwan, using morphology, DNA and distance calls. Ornithological Science, 2, Yodogawa, Y., Nishiumi, I., Saito, D., & Okanoya, K. (2003). Characterization of eight polymorphic microsatellite loci from the Bengalese finch(lonchura striata var. domestica). Molecular Ecology Notes, 3, Okanoya, K. (2004). The Bengalese finch: a window on the behavioral neurobiology of bird song syntax. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1016, Nakamura, K. Z. & Okanoya, K. (2004). Neural correlates of song complexity in Bengalese finch high vocal center. NeuroReport, 15, Okanoya, K. (2004). Song syntax in Bengalese finches: proximate and ultimate analyses. Advances in the Study of Behaviour, 34, Yamazaki, Y., Yamada, H., Murofushi, M., Momose, H., & Okanoya, K. (2004). Estimation of hearing range in raptors using unconditioned responses. Ornithological Science, 3, Okanoya, K. (2004). Functional and structural pre-adaptations to language: Insight from comparative 6

7 cognitive science into the studay of language origin. Japanese Psychological Research, 46, Tokimoto, N., Okanoya, K. (2004). Spontaneous construction of Chinese boxes in Degus (Octodon degu): A rudiment of recursive intelligence? Japanese Psychological Research, 46, Takahasi, M., Ikebuchi, M., & Okanoya, K. (2005). Spatiotemporal properties of visual stimuli for song induction in Bengalese finches. Neuroreport, 16, Tobari, Y., Nakamura, K.Z., & Okanoya, K. (2005). Sex differences in the telencephalic song control circuitry in Bengalese finches(lonchura striata var. domestica). Zoological Science, 22, Ikebuchi, M., & Okanoya, K. (2006). Growth of pair bonding in Zebra Finches: physical and social factors. Ornithological Science, 5, Nishikawa, J., & Okanoya, K. (2006). Dynamical neural representation of song syntax in Bengalese Finch: a model study. Ornithological Science, 5, Seki, Y., & Okanoya, K. (2006). Effects of visiual stimulation on the auditory responses of the HVC song control nucleus in anesthetized Bengalese Finches. Ornithological Science, 5, Soma, M., Takahasi, M., Hasegawa, T., & Okanoya, K. (2006). Trade-offs and correlations among multiple song features in the Bengalese Finch. Ornithological Science, 5, Soma, M., Takahasi, M., Ikebuchi, M., Yamada, H., Suzuki, M., Hasegawa, T., & Okanoya, K. (2006). Early rearing conditions affect the development of body size and song in Bengalese finches. Ethology, 112, Takahasi, M., Kagawa, H., Ikebuchi, M., & Okanoya, K. (2006). Case studies of song and call learning by a hybrid Bengalese-Zebra Finch and Bengalese-fostered Zebra Finches: Assessing innate factors in vocal learning. Ornithological Science, 5, Tobari, Y., Okumura, T., Tani, J., & Okanoya, K. (2006). Non-singing female Bengalese Finches(Lonchura striata var. domestica) possess neuronal projections connecting a song learning region to a song motor region. Ornithological Science, 5, 岡ノ谷一夫. (2006). 比較認知科学からみた言語の起源 : 企画意図. 動物心理学研究, 56, 岡ノ谷一夫. (2006). 時系列信号の認知と生成. 動物心理学研究, 56, 岡ノ谷一夫. (2006). 比較認知科学からみた言語の起源 : 総合討論. 動物心理学研究, 56,

8 Fujii, N., Abla, D., Kudo, N., Hihara, S., Okanoya, K., & Iriki, A. (2007). Prefrontal activity during koh-do incense discrimination. Neuroscience Research, 59, Katahira, K., Kawamura, M., Okanoya, K., & Okada, M. (2007). Retrieval of branching sequences in an associative memory model with common external input and bias input. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 76, Okumura, T., Okanoya, K., & Tani, J. (2007). Application of light-cured dental adhesive resin for mounting electrodes or microdialysis probes in chronic experiments. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 6, Soma, M., Saito, D. S., Hasegawa, T., & Okanoya, K. (2007). Sex-specific maternal effect on egg mass, laying order, and sibling competition in the Bengalese finch(lonchura striata var. domestica). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61, Yosida, S., Kobayashi, K. I., Ikebuchi, M., Ozaki, R., & Okanoya, K. (2007). Antiphonal vocalization of a subterranean rodent, the Naked Mole-Rat(Heterocephalus glaber). Ethology, 113, Abla, D., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Statistical segmentation of tone sequences activates the left inferior frontal cortex: a near-infrared spectroscopy study. Neuropsychologia, Abla, D., Katahira, K., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Online assessment of statistical learning by event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, Katahira, K., Abla, D., Masuda, S., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Feedback-based error monitoring processes during musical performance: An ERP study. Neuroscience Research, 61, Matsunaga, E., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Expression analysis of cadherins in the songbird brain: relationship to vocal system development. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 508, Matsunaga, E., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Vocal area-related expression of the androgen receptor in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) brain. Brain research, 1208, Morisaka, T., Katahira, K., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Variability in preference for conspecific songs with syntactical complexity in female Bengalese finches: towards an understanding of song evolution. Ornithological Science,.7, Nishikawa, J., Okada, M., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Population coding of song element sequence in the Bengalese finch HVC. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27,

9 Okanoya, K., Tokimoto, N., Kumazawa, N., Hihara, S., & Iriki, A. (2008). Tool-use training in species of rodent: the emergence of an optimal motor strategy and functional understanding. PLoS One, 3, e18601-e Seki, Y., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Functional evidence for internal feedback in the songbird brain nucleus HVC. Neuroreport, 19, Seki, Y., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Sex differences in audiovisual discrimination learning by Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica). Journal of comparative psychology, 122, Seki, Y., Suzuki, K., Takahasi, M., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Song Motor control organizes acoustic patterns on two levels in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica). Journal of Comparative Physiology A', 194, Soma, M., Hasegawa, T., & Okanoya, K. (2008). Genetic and developmental effects, and morphological influences on the acoustic structure of individual distance calls in female Bengalese finches Lonchura striata var. domestica. Journal of Avian Biology, 39, Kakishita, Y., Sasahara, K., Nishino, T, Takahasi, M., & Okanoya, K. (2009). Ethological data mining: an automata-based approach to extract behavioral units and rules. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 18, Matsunaga, E., & Okanoya, K. (2009). Vocal control area-related expression of neuropilin-1, plexin-a4, and the ligand semaphorin-3a has implications for the evolution of the avian vocal system. Development, Growth & Differentiation, 51, Morisaka, T., Katahira, K., & Okanoya, K. (2009). Cognitive tactics of Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) for song discrimination in a go/no-go operant task. Journal of Ethology, 27, Seki, Y., & Okanoya, K. (2009). The effect of sound location in a song discrimination task in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica). Journal of Ethology, 27, Soma, M., Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, M., & Okanoya, K. (2009). Early ontogenetic effects on song quality in the Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica): laying order, sibling competition and song syntax. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63,