2007-2010: Kyoto Prefectural Sagano High School
2010-2014: Kyoto University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Humanities, BA (Psychology)
2014-2019: Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Department of Psychology, Master~Doctor (Literature)
2016-2019: Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1)
2019-2024:
Research Scientist, Genetic Testing Section and Research & Development Section, Anicom Specialty Medical Institute Inc.
Project Researcher, Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University
2020-2024:
Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Human Sciences, Senshu University (Introduction to Psychology)
The entries shown as blue hyperlinks are the papers on which I am both the first author and the corresponding author.
Zemmoto, C., Matsumoto, Y., Arahori, M., & Inoue‐Murayama, M. (2025). Genome‐wide study suggests inheritance of personality traits in Toy Poodles and Miniature Dachshunds. Animal Genetics, 56(1), e13508.
Vitale, K. R., Takagi, S., Arahori, M., Chijiiwa, H., Udell, M. A., & Kuroshima, H. (2024). A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Cat–Human Relationships in the United States and Japan. Anthrozoös, 37(5), 813-831.
Takagi, S., Saito, A., Arahori, M., Chijiiwa, H., Koyasu, H., Nagasawa, M., ... & Kuroshima, H. (2022). Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 6155.
Chijiiwa, H., Takagi, S., Arahori, M., Anderson, J. R., Fujita, K., & Kuroshima, H. (2021). Cats (Felis catus) show no avoidance of people who behave negatively to their owner. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 8(1), 23-35.
Matsumoto, Y., Ruamrungsri, N., Arahori, M., Ukawa, H., Ohashi, K., Lyons, L. A., & Ishihara, G. (2021). Genetic relationships and inbreeding levels among geographically distant populations of Felis catus from Japan and the United States. Genomics, 113(1), 104-110.
Takagi, S., Chijiiwa, H., Arahori, M., Saito, A., Fujita, K., & Kuroshima, H. (2021). Socio-spatial cognition in cats: Mentally mapping owner’s location from voice. Plos one, 16(11), e0257611.
Chijiiwa, H., Takagi, S., Arahori, M., Hori, Y., Saito, A., Kuroshima, H., & Fujita, K. (2021). Dogs and cats prioritize human action: choosing a now-empty instead of a still-baited container. Animal Cognition, 24, 65-73.
Bucher, B., Arahori, M ., Chijiiwa, H., Takagi, S., & Fujita, K. (2020). Domestic cats’ reactions to their owner and an unknown individual petting a potential rival. PetBehaviourScience, 9, 16 - 33.
Iwasaki, S., Kuroshima, H., Arahori, M ., & Fujita, K. (2020). Prospective information-seeking in human children (Homo sapiens): When to seek and what to seek. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134(3), 341.
Takagi, S., Arahori, M ., Chijiiwa, H., Saito, A., Kuroshima, H., & Fujita, K. (2019). Cats match voice and face: cross-modal representation of humans in cats (Felis catus). Animal cognition, 22(5), 901-906.
Takagi, S., Tsuzuki, M., Chijiiwa, H., Arahori, M., Watanabe, A., Saito, A., & Fujita, K. (2017). Use of incidentally encoded memory from a single experience in cats. Behavioural Processes, 141, 267-272.
Ito, Y., Watanabe, A., Takagi, S., Arahori, M., & Saito, A. (2016). Cats beg for food from the human who looks at and calls to them: ability to understand humans’ attentional states. Psychologia, 59(2-3), 112-120.
Takagi, S., Arahori, M., Chijiiwa, H., Tsuzuki, M., Hataji, Y., & Fujita, K. (2016). There's no ball without noise: cats' prediction of an object from noise. Animal Cognition, 19(5), 1043-1047.
Takagi, S., Chijiiwa, H., Arahori, M., Tsuzuki, M., Hyuga, A., & Fujita, K. (2015). Do cats (Felis catus) predict the presence of an invisible object from sound? Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 10, 407-412.