Spontaneous expression of mirror self-recognition in monkeys after learning precise visual-proprioceptive association for mirror images

  • Liangtang Chang
    Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS, Shanghai 200031, China
  • Shikun Zhang
    Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS, Shanghai 200031, China
  • Mu-ming Poo
    Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS, Shanghai 200031, China
  • Neng Gong
    Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS, Shanghai 200031, China

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公開日
2017-02-13
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  • http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/userlicense.xhtml
DOI
  • 10.1073/pnas.1620764114
公開者
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p>Self-awareness is a higher intelligence that can be revealed by mirror self-recognition (MSR) in humans. Testing MSR has become the main approach to examining the existence of self-recognition in animals, and only a few species have passed the test. However, it remains controversial whether failing the MSR test is a result of the lack of an animal’s self-recognition ability or the inadequacy of the mirror test. We found that MSR spontaneously appeared in rhesus monkeys after training for precise visual-proprioceptive association for mirror images. Thus, bodily self-consciousness may be a cognitive ability present in many more species than previously thought, and could be revealed by MSR when the animal acquired visual-proprioceptive association for the images in the mirror.</jats:p>

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