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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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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 |
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