Rapid Detection of Snakes by Japanese Monkeys (Macaca fuscata): An Evolutionarily Predisposed Visual System
Rapid Detection of Snakes by Japanese Monkeys (Macaca fuscata): An Evolutionarily Predisposed Visual System
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DOI：
10.1037/a0015095
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Kawai, Nobuyuki
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作者：
Shibasaki, Masahiro;Kawai, Nobuyuki
人类似乎对生物学上的威胁性刺激非常敏感。比如蛇。在视觉搜索任务中，人类对蛇的图片的反应比花的图片快。作者报告说，猕猴（Macaca fuscata），在实验室饲养，没有经验的蛇，回应。人类也一样花中蛇的图片比反之亦然（实验一）。这也是当使用灰度图片时的情况（实验2）。这些结果提供了第一个证据，增强视觉检测进化相关的威胁刺激在非人灵长类动物。
Humans appear extremely sensitive to biologically threatening stimuli. such as snakes. In visual Search tasks, humans respond to Pictures of snakes faster than pictures of flowers. The authors report that macaque monkeys (Macaca fuscata), reared in a laboratory and with no experience with snakes, respond. as do humans. to pictures of snakes among flowers faster than vice versa (Experiment I). This was also the case when grayscale Pictures were used (Experiment 2). These results provide the first evidence of enhanced Visual detection of evolutionarily relevant threat stimuli in nonhuman primates.