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SUBMITTER: Matsuno T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6179237 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20181010 10
Humans visually process human body images depending on the configuration of the parts. However, little is known about whether this function is evolutionarily shared with nonhuman animals. In this study, we examined the body posture discrimination performance of capuchin monkeys, a highly social platyrrhine primate, in comparison to humans. We demonstrate that, like humans, monkeys exhibit a body inversion effect: body posture discrimination is impaired by inversion, which disrupts the configural ...[more]