Open AccessAn exploratory study of gaze‐monitoring in nonhuman primates 1
Author(s) -
ITAKURA SHOJI
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
japanese psychological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5884
pISSN - 0021-5368
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5884.1996.tb00022.x
Subject(s) - gaze , psychology , primate , nonhuman primate , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , communication , biology , neuroscience , evolutionary biology , psychoanalysis , management , economics
Eleven species of nonhuman primate were tested in a gaze‐monitoring task to examine whether they would look where the experimenter looked or pointed. Chimpanzees and an orangutan showed higher correct‐response rates than other species. A high correlation was found between correct responses on the gaze‐monitoring task and the length of time that the subject continuously concentrated on the experiment.