Research theme for competitive and other funds (27):
2024 - 2029 Experimental studies on the primate foundations for the control of vocal fold vibration in human speech.
2024 - 2028 二足歩行と大脳化の進化における協調:頭蓋骨と骨盤形態の共変異分析
2023 - 2028 二足歩行と大脳化の進化における協調:頭蓋骨と骨盤形態の共変異分析
2024 - 2027 Physical modeling, excised larynx experiment, and mathematical modeling of vocal membrane oscillations and their implications to the evolution of human language
2023 - 2027 Physical modeling, excised larynx, mathematical modeling of voice instability induced by vocal membranes and their implications to the evolution of language
2023 - 2026 発声及び表情の統合的制御に関わる神経回路の研究
2024 - 2024 話しことばと嚥下の共進化プロセスに関する実験的研究
2023 - 2024 話しことばと嚥下の共進化プロセスに関する実験的研究
2019 - 2024 Experimental studies of the phonation in non-human primates for elucidating the speech evolution
2020 - 2023 Physical modeling and excised larynx experiment of vocal-ventricular fold co-oscillations and their implication for singing, medicine, and language evolution
2018 - 2022 Evolution of human speech communication: an experimental study of speech precursors found in primates
2017 - 2020 Developing the simulation model for evaluating the air-conditioning feature in the nasal passages of non-human mammals
2016 - 2020 Biological studies of the diversity of phonatory mechanism in non-human primates and of the evolutionary process for human phonation with medical engineering approaches
2015 - 2018 Evolutionary studies of vocal imitation by comparative cognitive approaches
2014 - 2018 Paleontological study on the establishment of the primate fauna in Asia
2014 - 2017 Development of a quantitative morphological method to estimate a phyletic relationship of fossil and extant primates
2012 - 2016 Studies on the primate model and the primate origins of voice physiology in human speech
2012 - 2014 New approach to the origin of human secondary altriciality
2011 - 2012 人類の呼吸機能の進化と第一次出アフリカに関する研究
2008 - 2011 Paleontological study of the evolution of Neogene primates in eastern Eurasia
2009 - 2010 Studies on modifications on the internal cranial morphology in the evolution of anthropoid orbits
2008 - 2010 Variation of the passage of the trigeminal nerve in primate skulls
2008 - 2009 原猿類における副鼻腔形態の比較研究
2008 - 2008 ヒト以外の霊長類における音声器官の運動の随意性に関する実験的研究
2008 - 2008 X線CTによるヨーロッパ産旧世界ザル化石の頭蓋内部構造の比較分析
2004 - 2007 Paleontological Study on the Evolution of Cermpithecine Monkeys in Asia
2004 - 2006 霊長類の音声制御に関する神経解剖学的研究
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Papers (81):
Kanta Nakamura, Naho Konoike, Takeshi Nishimura. Three-dimensional reconstruction of intrinsic tongue muscles of macaques using diffusion-weighted imaging of flash-frozen specimens. Acoustical Science and Technology. 2024. 45. 4. 224-229
Kanta Nakamura, Mayuka Kanaya, Daisuke Matsushima, Jacob C. Dunn, Hideki Hirabayashi, Kiminori Sato, Isao T. Tokuda, Takeshi Nishimura. Twin vocal folds as a novel evolutionary adaptation for vocal communications in lemurs. Scientific Reports. 2024. 14. 1
Christos Alexandros Plastiras, Ghislain Thiery, Franck Guy, David M. Alba, Takeshi Nishimura, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Gildas Merceron. Investigating the dietary niches of fossil Plio-Pleistocene European macaques: The case of Macaca majori Azzaroli, 1946 from Sardinia. Journal of Human Evolution. 2023. 185
Takeshi Nishimura. Evolution of Brain and Language in a Term of Human Masticatory Apparatus. 日本咀嚼学会雑誌. 2023. 33. 2
Takeshi Nishimura. Evolution and Function of the Phonatory Apparatus. Japan Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. 2023. 64. 3. 165-171
The Origins of Language Revisited: Differentiation from Music and the Emergence of Neurodiversity and Autism (ed. N. Masataka)
Springer, Tokyo 2020 ISBN:9789811542497
2009 - 2010 International Society of Primatology Committee of Venues, The 23rd Congress of the International Primatological Society
2007/06/01 - 2009/06/01 日本霊長類学会 幹事(庶務)
2008 - 2008 日本人類学会 第62回大会実行委員
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Awards (4):
2024/04 - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2020/09 - Ig Noble Prize, Acoustics
2016/11 - 日本人類学会 Anthropological Science論文奨励賞
2004/07 - 日本霊長類学会 高島賞(学術奨励賞)
Association Membership(s) (5):
SOCIETY OF EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES, JAPAN
, International Society of Primatology
, American Association of Biological Anthropologists
, 日本霊長類学会
, 日本人類学会