Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology
Online ISSN : 1880-9022
Print ISSN : 0916-8419
ISSN-L : 0916-8419
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Volume 62, Issue 2
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Obituary
Review Article
  • Optogenetics: An attempt to dissect neuronal pathways that regulate behavior
    AKI TAKAHASHI
    2012 Volume 62 Issue 2 Pages 147-162
    Published: 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: January 28, 2013
    Advance online publication: December 28, 2012
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2502/janip.62.2.5
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    This review is an introduction to a recently developed technology “optogenetics” that allows researchers to directly manipulate the activity of aimed neurons with millisecond (ms) order in a behaving animal. Two types of microbial opsin, channel rhodopsin 2 (ChR2) and halorhodopsin (NpHR), are commonly used as the tools for optogenetics. ChR2 responds to blue light to induce neuronal firing via cation influx, whereas NpHR responds to yellow light to inhibit neuronal activity via Cl- influx. This review first introduces these and other opsins that have been used for optogenetics. Next, three methods to introduce these foreign genes into mouse nervous system are going to be explained: 1) viral infection, 2) in utero electrophoresis, and 3) transgenic mouse. Then, this review illustrates how neuron-type specific expression of the opsin gene can be achieved, and also how the optic stimulation of opsins that expresses in the deep brain structure can be accomplished. Finally, how the optogenetic technique has been used for behavioral neuroscience will be discussed by focusing on the studies about amygdala microcircuit that mediates conditioned fear.
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Lecture
  • International contributions of Japanese animal psychologists before WWII
    MIKI TAKASUNA
    2012 Volume 62 Issue 2 Pages 163-167
    Published: 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: January 28, 2013
    Advance online publication: December 28, 2012
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2502/janip.62.2.2
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    By the end of World War II, five Japanese researchers had published their psychological researches with animals in English journals. In the present paper, I highlight two of these researchers, Ryo Kuroda and Gennosuke Yoshioka (alias Joseph G. Yoshioka), in terms of their international contributions. In contrast to Kuroda, who did not study abroad, Yoshioka conducted research in the U. S. under prominent animal psychologists such as Edward C. Tolman, Karl S. Lashley, and Robert M. Yerkes. Kuroda experimented with various species ranging from lower vertebrates to monkeys, while Yoshioka mainly used rats in his work. Although their careers took different paths, they shared a similarity in that both remained outside Japan’s mainstream psychology.
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  • International Society for Comparative Psychology (ISCP) and the visibility of Japanese Researchers
    MASATO ISHIDA
    2012 Volume 62 Issue 2 Pages 169-172
    Published: 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: January 28, 2013
    Advance online publication: December 28, 2012
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2502/janip.62.2.3
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    Japanese researchers have been quite active in international scientific meetings lately. We take the 15th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Comparative Psychology (ISCP) as an example of active involvement of Japanese in a world arena. The meeting was held in Awaji Island, Hyogo in May 19-21, 2010, the first convention of this kind hosted in Japan. Academic contribution to the meeting by Japanese researchers is reviewed on the basis of scientific program and an operation of the three-day’s convention. The remarks made by distinguished figures endorse the significance of the meeting and appreciate the visible contribution to comparative psychology by Japanese. Some proposals are made as the way to “globalize” Japanese psychologists and to enhance further development of their work.
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  • Brief history of ICP (International Congress of Psychology) and IUPsyS (International Union of Psychological Science)
    HIROSHI IMADA
    2012 Volume 62 Issue 2 Pages 173-178
    Published: 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: January 28, 2013
    Advance online publication: December 28, 2012
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2502/janip.62.2.4
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    This article consists of four parts: (1) a brief history of ICP, (2) a brief history of IUPsyS, (3) the international visibility of psychological research in Japan, and (4) closing remarks with reference to the Yokohama ICP2016. The congress sites, countries, continents and the record of attendance of thirty ICPs for the period 1889-2012 are summarized and reviewed. The history of the organizing committees of ICP which have developed into IUPsyS is also summarized and reviewed. The Japanese Psychological Association (JPA), one of the 11 charter members of IUPsyS, has played an important role for IUPsyS, but the academic visibility of psychological research in Japan was found to be disproportionally low internationally relative to its contribution to IUPsyS and the high rate of attendance of Japanese psychologists at recent ICPs. Some suggestions for and expectations on the Yokohama ICP2016 were proposed.
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Proceedings of the 72th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Animal Psychology
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