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SUBMITTER: Hanazuka Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6304147 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hanazuka Yuki Y Shimizu Mika M Takaoka Hidemasa H Midorikawa Akira A
Royal Society open science 20181212 12
The ability to recognize oneself in a mirror is known as self-recognition, whereas delayed self-recognition is the ability to recognize the relationship between current self and past actions. While 3-year-old human children have self-recognition without the ability for delayed self-recognition, 4-year-old human children demonstrate the capability for both. Chimpanzees, the most closely related species to humans, have displayed the ability for delayed self-recognition. However, little is known ab ...[more]