Parr Lisa A, Heintz Matthew, Akamagwuna Unoma
Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Brain Cogn. 2006 Oct;62(1):30-42. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.03.006. Epub 2006 May 5.
Previous studies have demonstrated the sensitivity of chimpanzees to facial configurations. Three studies further these findings by showing this sensitivity to be specific to second-order relational properties. In humans, this type of configural processing requires prolonged experience and enables subordinate-level discriminations of many individuals. Chimpanzees showed evidence of a composite-like effect for conspecific but not human faces despite extensive experience with humans. Chimpanzee face recognition was impaired only when manipulations targeted second-order properties. Finally, face processing was impaired when individual features were blurred through pixelation. Results confirm that chimpanzee face discrimination, like humans, depends on the integrity of second-order relational properties.
先前的研究已经证明黑猩猩对面部构型敏感。三项研究通过表明这种敏感性特定于二阶关系属性进一步证实了这些发现。在人类中,这种构型处理类型需要长期经验,并能够对许多个体进行从属水平的辨别。尽管黑猩猩与人类有广泛接触,但它们对同种个体的面孔表现出类合成效应,而对人类面孔则没有。只有当操作针对二阶属性时,黑猩猩的面部识别才会受损。最后,当通过像素化使个体特征模糊时,面部处理也会受损。结果证实,与人类一样,黑猩猩的面部辨别取决于二阶关系属性的完整性。