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SUBMITTER: Imura T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5577472 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Imura Tomoko T Kawakami Fumito F Shirai Nobu N Tomonaga Masaki M
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20170801 1861
Humans can extract statistical information, such as the average size of a group of objects or the general emotion of faces in a crowd without paying attention to any individual object or face. To determine whether summary perception is unique to humans, we investigated the evolutional origins of this ability by assessing whether chimpanzees, which are closely related to humans, can also determine the average size of multiple visual objects. Five chimpanzees and 18 humans were able to choose the ...[more]