Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) respond to video images of themselves

Anderson, JR; Kuroshima, H; Paukner, A; Fujita, K

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Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) respond to video images of themselves

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Anderson, JR, Kuroshima, H, Paukner, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3421-1864 and Fujita, K, 2009. Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) respond to video images of themselves. Animal Cognition, 12 (1), pp. 55-62. ISSN 1435-9448

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-008-0170-3

Abstract

Many studies have used mirror-image stimulation in attempts to find self-recognition in monkeys. However, very few studies have presented monkeys with video images of themselves; the present study is the first to do so with capuchin monkeys. Six tufted capuchin monkeys were individually exposed to live face-on and side-on video images of themselves (experimental Phase 1). Both video screens initially elicited considerable interest. Two adult males looked preferentially at their face-on image, whereas two adult females looked preferentially at their side-on image; the latter elicited lateral movements and head-cocking. Only males showed communicative facial expressions, which were directed towards the face-on screen. In Phase 2 monkeys discriminated between real-time, face-on images and identical images delayed by 1 second, with the adult females especially preferring real-time images. In this phase both screens elicited facial expressions, shown by all monkeys. In Phase 3 there was no evidence of discrimination between previously recorded video images of self and similar images of a familiar conspecific. Although they showed no signs of explicit self-recognition, the monkeys’ behaviour strongly suggests recognition of the correspondence between kinaesthetic information and external visual effects. In species such as humans and great apes, this type of self-awareness feeds into a system that gives rise to explicit self-recognition.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Animal Cognition
Creators:	Anderson, J.R., Kuroshima, H., Paukner, A. and Fujita, K.
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date:	January 2009
Volume:	12
Number:	1
ISSN:	1435-9448
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/s10071-008-0170-3 DOI 1427788 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Lee Houghton
Date Added:	29 Mar 2021 10:51
Last Modified:	31 May 2021 15:05
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/42621