SABA Experimental Fellowship Recipients
2003: Kazuhiro Goto, University of Exeter, UK
Kazuhiro Goto was born in Japan in 1976. He got his first degree at Keio University, Tokyo in 2000, where he carried out a project in the laboratory of Shigeru Watanabe. He then moved to the University of Exeter, in south-west England, where he was awarded an MSc in Psychological Research Methods in 2001. His MSc dissertation investigated movement discrimination by pigeons, and was published in Animal Cognition in 2002, coauthored with his supervisor Stephen Lea and his collaborator Winand Dittrich. He started his PhD in 2001 at the University of Exeter under the supervision of Stephen Lea and Andy Wills. The dissertation investigates category discrimination, feature analysis and stimulus control by holistic and elemental features of static and movement stimuli in pigeons and humans. One of the experiments that will form part of the thesis will be published in the July 2003 issue of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, and two further chapters have already been submitted for publications in various journals.
He is very pleased and honored to have received the SABA EAB fellowship. He really enjoys working in the lab, and he is enthusiastic about developing his research project. He is also very keen on meeting people and having collaboration to extend his research fields: his undergraduate work on behavioral neuroscience in Tokyo earned him a co-authorship on a paper in Physiology and Behavior and at Exeter he has shared in the teaching of animal behavior fieldwork, supervising projects on seals, grazing animals and marine birds. He is looking forward to visiting the laboratory of Robert Cook at Tufts University, where he will hold a visiting scholar position supported by the UK Experimental Psychology Society from October to December 2003, and he plans to complete his PhD in September 2004. He also hopes to attend the Boston meeting of ABA in 2004.
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