My main interests are in animal psychology and animal welfare. My research focuses on understanding how non-human primates perceive faces and facial expressions using computer-based tasks (e.g., matching-to-sample, dot probe and visual search). I am also interested in whether facial expressions can be used to assess emotional and welfare states in animals. I lecture on Comparative Psychology, Primate Behaviour and Cognition, and Science Communication at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University.
Doctor of Science in Comparative Cognition
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University (2015-2019)
Master of Science in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh (2012-2013)
Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Psychology
Department of Psychology, University of Hull (2000-2003)
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up (2021-2023)
Project: Geometric morphometrics for the study of facial expression of pain in common marmosets
Kyoto University Research Fund for Young Scientists (Start-Up) (2021-2021)
Project: Geometric morphometrics for the study of facial expression of pain in common marmosets
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Fellows (2020-2021)
Project: A novel method to assess pain in common marmosets using facial expressions
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up (2018-2020)
Project: Comparing emotional attention in humans and chimpanzees: Is the touchscreen dot probe task an effective tool?
MEXT Postgraduate Scholarship (2015-2018)
Project: Exploring attentional bias towards threatening faces in chimpanzees
Caeiro, C. C., Burrows, A., Wilson, D. A., Abdelrahman, A., Miyabe-Nishiwaki, T. (2022). CalliFACS: The common marmoset Facial Action Coding System. PLoS ONE 17(5): e026644. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266442
Wilson, D. A., Tomonaga, M. (2022). Search asymmetries for threatening faces in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 136, 1, 20-34. doi: 10.1037/com0000302
Wilson, D. A., Tomonaga, M. (2018). Exploring attentional bias towards threatening faces in chimpanzees using the dot probe task. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0207378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207378
Wilson, D. A., Tomonaga, M. (2018). Visual discrimination of primate species based on faces in chimpanzees. Primates. 59, 3, 243-251. doi: 10.1007/s10329-018-0649-8
Wilson, D. A., Tomonaga, M., Vick, S-J. (2016). Eye preferences in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella). Primates, 57, 3, 433-440. doi: 10.1007/s10329-016-0537-z
Tlauka, M., Donaldson, P., Wilson, D. (2008). Forgetting in spatial memories acquired in a virtual environment. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 1, 69-84. doi: 10.1002/acp.1341
Wilson, P. N., Wilson, D. A., Griffiths, L., Fox, S. (2007). First-perspective spatial alignment effects from real-world exploration. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1432-1444. doi: 10.3758/BF03193613