2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study of comparative cognitive development on social cognition from self-propelled to goal-directed motion
| Project/Area Number |
21700296
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Tamagawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
MURAI Chizuko 玉川大学, 脳科学研究所, 科研費研究員 (90536830)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 比較認知科学 / 発達心理学 / 物体知識 / 動きの因果性 / 社会的知性 / 霊長類 |
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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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