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SUBMITTER: Atsumi T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5215463 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Atsumi Takeshi T Koda Hiroki H Masataka Nobuo N
Scientific reports 20170105
Humans interpret others' goals based on motion information, and this capacity contributes to our mental reasoning. The present study sought to determine whether Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) perceive goal-directedness in chasing events depicted by two geometric particles. In Experiment 1, two monkeys and adult humans were trained to discriminate between Chasing and Random sequences. We then introduced probe stimuli with various levels of correlation between the particle trajectories to exam ...[more]