Assignment 5

Chimpanzees recognize face like a human

Skill is a heritage from ancestors

Human recognizes a face faster and differently than other figures. This used to be just one of our features, but now there has been information that chimpanzees recognize faces humanly effectively. This was discovered when Japanese Masaki Tomonaga and Tomoko Imura taught 4 chimpanzee females to find pictures of cars, bananas, and faces from among other pictures. Chimpanzee saw their breed mates face faster than the other pics.

Upside down face doesn't show

Human face recognizable is all about quickly recognizing everything, and a smart chimpanzee does the same. Just like humans when recognizing faces worse the picture was turned upside down. Also covering eyes and nose slowed down the process. But when the picture was turned black and white it didn't bother the chimpanzee's process. It was disturbing to the scientist how fast the chimpanzees found bananas amongst the other pictures. Quickly recognizing fruits was not the same as recognizing the human face. When the bananas were turned black and white chimpanzees could not recognize them and it was all about the bright yellow color.

Human wins a macaque

All of a sudden chimpanzees spotted a human face as sensitively as their own breeds face. This phenomenon doesn't happen only because the test animals have spent a lot of time with their nurses. Japanese macaque's faces weren't spotted as well even though they were right in the next cage. Chimpanzees recognized human baby faces faster than a macaque faces when the chimpanzees haven't ever even met a baby. Was it about humans, breed mates, chimpanzees recognized faces better which were straight and not sideways. This means that eye contact is one of the main reasons why the chimpanzee recognizes the face. The same kind of thing has been spotted in humans." You might want to take these results in your mind when we are thinking about our social intelligence evolution. Both breeds might use the information of a face in their social life the same way". Estimates Kioto University's order primates researcher Tomonag. A study was published by Scientific Reports


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