2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The evolutional foundation of biological and physical knowledge underlying our social cognition
Project/Area Number |
25780444
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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Research Institution | Tamagawa University |
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) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Keywords | 生物・物体認識 / 核知識 / 霊長類 / 種間比較 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
To discriminate non-living and living objects underlies our social behaviors. In humans, such physical and biological knowledge appears even in early development. In order to explore the evolutional foundation of such knowledge, the present study examined whether non-human primates discriminate non-living and living objects based on the causality of motion as reported in human infants. The results showed that Japanese monkeys expected that non-living things did not move without some external effects while living things move also in a self-propelled way. Combined with our previous findings in chimpanzees, these results suggest that non-human primates share some physical and biological knowledge with humans, leading us to figure out the origins of these knowledge underlying social recognition and the similarities/dissimilarities among primates species.
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Free Research Field |
比較認知科学、発達心理学
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