Lazareva, O. F., Shimizu, T., & Wasserman, E. A. (Editors) (In press). How Animals See the World: Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision. New York: Oxford University Press.

Patton, T. B., Szafranski, G., & Shimizu, T. (2010). What do males see in females? Significance of facial features for conspecific recognition by pigeons (Columba livia). Behaviour, 147, 757-773.

Patton, T. B. Husband, S. A., & Shimizu, T. (2009). Female stimuli trigger gene expression in male pigeons. Social Neuroscience, 4, 28-39.

Markham, R. G., Shimizu, T., & Lickliter, R. (2008). Extrinsic embryonic sensory stimulation alters multimodal behavior and cellular activation. Developmental Neurobiology. 68, 1463-1473.

Partan, S., Yelda, S., Price, V., & Shimizu, T. (2005). Female pigeons (Columba livia) respond to multisensory audio/video playbacks of male courtship behavior. Animal Behaviour, 70, 957-966.

Shimizu, T., Bowers, A. N., Budzynski, C. A., Kahn, M. C., & Bingman, V. P. (2004). What does a pigeon brain look like during homing? Selective examination of ZENK expression. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 845–851.

Brazas, M. & Shimizu, T. (2002). Significance of visual cues in choice behavior in the female zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis). Animal Cognition, 5, 91-95.

Husband, S. A. & Shimizu, T. (In press). Calcium-binding protein distributions and fiber connections of the nucleus accumbens in the pigeon (Columba livia). Journal of Comparative Neurology.

Shimizu, T. & Watanabe, S. (In press). The avian visual system: Overview. In O. F. Lazareva, T. Shimizu, & E. A. Wasserman (Eds.), How Animals See the World: Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision. New York: Oxford University Press.

Shimizu, T., Patton, T. B., & Husband, S. (2010). Avian visual behavior and the organization of the telencephalon. Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 75, 204-217.

Patton, T. B. Husband, S. A., & Shimizu, T. (2009). Female stimuli trigger gene expression in male pigeons. Social Neuroscience, 4, 28-39.

Markham, R. G., Shimizu, T., & Lickliter, R. (2008). Extrinsic embryonic sensory stimulation alters multimodal behavior and cellular activation. Developmental Neurobiology. 68, 1463-1473.

Shimizu, T., Bowers, A. N., Budzynski, C. A., Kahn, M. C., & Bingman, V. P. (2004). What does a pigeon brain look like during homing? Selective examination of ZENK expression. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 845–851.


Laverghetta, A. V. & Shimizu, T. (2003). Organization of the ectostriatum based on afferent connections in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Brain Research, 963, 101-112.


Husband, S. & Shimizu, T. (1999). Efferent projections of the ectostriatum in pigeons (Columba livia). Journal of Comparative Neurology, 406, 329-345.

Shimizu, T. (2009). Why can birds be so smart? Background, significance, and implications of the revised view of the avian brain. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Review, 4, 103-115.


Shimizu, T., Patton, T. B., Szafranski, G., & Butler, A. B. (2008). Evolution of the visual system: in reptiles and birds. In M. D. Binder, N. Hirokawa, U. Windhorst, & M. C. Hirsch (Eds.), Encyclopedic Reference of Neuroscience, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.


Shimizu, T. (2006). Brain evolution by natural selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 23-24.


Jarvis, E. D., Güntürkün, O., Bruce, L., Csillag, A., Karten, H. J., Kuenzel, W., Medina, L., Paxinos, G., Perkel, D. J., Shimizu, T., Striedter, G. F., Wild, J. M., Ball, G. F., Douglas-Ford, J., Durand, S., Hough, G., Husband, S., Kubikova, L., Lee, D. W., Mello, C. V., Powers, A., Siang, C., Smulders, T. V., Wada, K., White, S. A., Yamamoto, K., Yu, J., Reiner, A., & Butler, A. B. (2005). Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6, 151-159.

Reiner, A., Perkel, D. J., Bruce, L., Butler, A. B., Csillag, A., Kuenzel, W., Medina, L., Paxinos, G., Powers, A., Shimizu, T., Striedter, G. F., Wild, J. M., Ball, G. F., Durand, S., Güntürkün, O., Lee, D. W., Mello, C. V., Powers, A., White, S. A., Hough, G., Kubikova, L., Smulders T. V., Wada, K., Douglas-Ford, J., Husband, S., Yamamoto, K., Yu, J., Siang, C., & Jarvis, E. D. (2004). Revised nomenclature for avian telencephalon and some related brainstem nuclei. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 473, 377-414.


Shimizu, T. (2004). Comparative cognition and neuroscience: Misconceptions about brain evolution. Japanese Psychological Research, 46, 246-254.

Shimizu, T. (2001). Evolution of the forebrain in tetrapods. In: G. Roth & M. F. Wulliman (Eds.), Brain evolution and cognition. (pp. 135 – 184). New York, New York: Wiley/Spektrum.

Husband, S. & Shimizu, T. (2001). Evolution of the avian vision.  In: R. Cook (Ed.), Avian Visual Cognition.

Shimizu, T. & Bowers, A. N. (1999). Visual circuits of the avian telencephalon: Evolutionary implications. Behavioural Brain Research, 98, 183-191.

Willott, J. F., VandenBosche, J., Shimizu, T., Ding, D., & Salvic, R. (2010). Effects of a high-frequency augmented acoustic environment on parvalbumin immunolabeling in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus of DBA/2J and C57BL/6J mice. Hearing Research. 261, 36-41.


Willott, J. F., VandenBosche, J., Shimizu, T., Ding, D., & Salvic, R. (2008). Effects of exposing gonadoectomized and intact C57BL/6J mice to a high- and low-frequency augmented acoustic environment: Auditory brainstem response thresholds, cytocochleograms, anterior cochlear nucleus morphology and the role of gonadal hormones. Hearing Research. 235, 60-71.


Willott, J. F., VandenBosche, J., Shimizu, T., Ding, D., & Salvic, R. (2006). Effects of exposing gonadoectomized and intact C57BL/6J mice to a high-frequency augmented acoustic environment: Auditory brainstem response thresholds and cytocochleograms. Hearing Research, 221, 73-81.


Willott, J. F., VandenBosche, J., Shimizu, T. & Ding, D. (2006). Effects of exposing DBA/2J mice to a high-frequency augmented acoustic environment on the cochlea and anteroventral cochlear nucleus. Hearing Research, 216-217, 138-145.

Shimizu, T. (2007). Birds that can plan for tomorrow's breakfast: Mental time travel in animals? Iden (Heredity). (In Japanese).