>Scientists Made Movies For Chimpanzees (They LOVED It)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdyaMEiiJ1QMy interpretation of this guy's video down there lol so feel free to read if you're bored
Great Ape cognition studies.>Japan is doing a lot of work in the realm of animal cognition studies. For example, they proved small fish can recognize themselves in the mirror, and not only that, but that research has to be conducted in a way that animals will care.
Enter
Fumihiro Kano. Here are his experiments on the chimpanzees and other apes, which happened in the 2010's.
Can chimpanzees infer intent? He showed his test subjects a video where his hand is reaching for one of the two toys. After showing that a few times, he'd switch to a video where the toys change their positions and the hand stops before it chooses one of them. The apes correctly inferred that the hand would pick the same toy as usual. (because their eyes were tracked) These are similar results to the same experiments conducted on human infants.
Then, the famous Sally-Anne experiment. This one is also about inferring the intent and one famously failed by autists, but not the neurotypicals or people with Down's. The chimpanzees, however, did not care about this experiment.
He met
Satoshi Hirata who told him the chimpanzees do not like static experiments, television, or videos in general. This is when they decided… to do live action movies for them!
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