edited by Sue Taylor Parker, Robert W. Mitchell and Maria L. Boccia.
New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
xviii, 442 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Papers presented at a conference, held 1991, at Sonoma State University.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
pt. 1. Comparative and developmental approaches to self-awareness -- pt. 2. The development of self in human infants and children -- pt. 3. Self-awareness in great apes -- pt. 4. Mirrors and monkeys, dolphins, and pigeons -- pt. 5. Epilogue.
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Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans, a collection of original articles on self-awareness in monkeys, apes, humans, and other species, focuses on controversies about how to measure self-awareness, which species are capable of self-awareness and which are not, and why. Several chapters focus on the controversial question of whether gorillas, like other great apes and human infants, are capable of mirror self-recognition (MSR) or whether they are anomalously unable to do so. Other chapters focus on whether macaque monkeys are capable of MSR. The focus of the chapters is both comparative and developmental: several contributors explore the value of frameworks from human developmental psychology for comparative studies. This dual focus - comparative and developmental - reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the volume, which brings together biological anthropologists, comparative and developmental psychologists, and cognitive scientists from Japan, France, Spain, Hungary, New Zealand, Scotland and the United States.
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Conference on Self-Awareness in Monkeys, Apes and Humans(1991 :, Sonoma State University)