Bruce C
Neuropsychologia. 1982;20(5):515-21. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(82)90025-2.
The effect of inversion of faces upon learning visual discriminations by macaque monkeys was studied with simultaneous discriminations, concurrent discriminations, and transfer tests. In no case was performance with upright stimuli superior to that with inverted stimuli; that is, there was no obvious inversion effect. Studies of human face recognition indicate that the inversion effect is mediated by an orientation-dependent face recognition mechanism that matures within the right hemisphere during childhood. Absence of an inversion effect would indicate that monkeys may not have such a mechanism. It was hypothesized that the macaque's relatively precocious development, smaller cortex, and lack of hemispheric specialization may preclude the maturation of such a mechanism.
通过同时辨别、并发辨别和迁移测试，研究了面孔倒置对猕猴学习视觉辨别的影响。在任何情况下，直立刺激下的表现都不优于倒置刺激下的表现；也就是说，没有明显的倒置效应。对人类面部识别的研究表明，倒置效应是由一种依赖于方向的面部识别机制介导的，这种机制在儿童时期在右半球成熟。没有倒置效应表明猴子可能没有这样的机制。据推测，猕猴相对早熟的发育、较小的大脑皮层和缺乏半球特化可能会妨碍这种机制的成熟。
