| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Object knowledge including discrimination between social/biological objects and physical objects underlies social cognition. The present study examined whether non-human primates show such discrimination based on causality of motions, as found in human infants. The findings indicates that non-human primates can understand that physical objects' motion is caused by the external factors like collision, whereas biological objects move in a self-propelled way without any external factors. This suggests the possibility that human and non-human primates would share the similar object knowledge.
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