My research interests are in the general area of cognitive psychology.
In particular, I am interested in the mechanisms of visual cognition
and attention. Many bird species are, like humans, visually dominant,
but some aspects of visual perception seem to be different between
birds (particularly pigeons) and humans. I compare jungle crows
(Corvus macrorhynchos) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in addition
to pigeons and humans to investigate how visual perception differs
between birds and primates.
I
am also interested in issues of metacognition. Primates are aware
of their own cognitive states and are capable of declining a memory
test based on their unconfidence, whereas this ability is not
successfully demonstrated in pigeons. However, corvids, which
are known to have comparable cognitive abilities to primates,
may excercise metacognition. I study mechanisms of metacognition
in jungle crows to examine what extent their cognitive abilities
are comparable to those in primates.
Publications
Silberberg,
A., Goto, K., Hachiga, Y. & Tanno, T. (in press). Schedule
discrimination in a mixed schedule: Implications for models of
the variable-ratio, variable-interval rate difference. Behavioural
Processes.
Lea,
S. E. G., Goto, K., Osthaus, B., Ryan, C. M. E. (2006). The logic
of the stimulus. Animal Cognition, 9,
247-256.
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Hopewell,
L., Rossiter, R., Blower, E., Leaver, L., & Goto, K. (2005).
Grazing and vigilance by Soay sheep on Lundy island: Influence
of group size, terrain and the distribution of vegetation. Behavioural
Processes, 70, 186-193.
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Cook,
R. G., Goto, K., & Brooks, D. I. (2005). Avian detection and
identification of perceptual organization in random noise. Behavioural
Processes, 69, 79-95.
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Gilbert-Norton,
L., Jule, K., Richards, G. & Goto, K. (2004). Social structure
of pony (Equus caballus) mares in an all female herd
on Lundy: analysis of dominance relationship and preferred associate.
Annual Report of Lundy Field Society, 54,
71-88.
Goto,
K., Wills, A. J., & Lea, S. E. G. (2004). Global-feature classification
can be acquired more rapidly than local-feature classification
in both humans and pigeons. Animal Cognition, 7,
109-113.
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Goto,
K., & Lea, S. E. G. (2003) Discrimination of direction of
movement in pigeons following previous experience of motion/static
discrimination. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
80, 29-42.
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Goto,
K., Lea, S. E. G., & Dittrich, W. H. (2002). Discrimination
of intentional and random motion paths by pigeons. Animal
Cognition, 5, 119-127.
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Yoshida,
M., Goto, K., & Watanabe, S. (2001). Task dependent strain
difference of spatial learning in C57BL/6N and BALB/c mice. Physiology
& Behavior, 73, 37-42.
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Curriculum Vitae
