Face recognition in the rhesus monkey

Abstract Rhesus monkeys were trained on a variety of simultaneous two-choice visual discrimination tasks to assess their ability to utilize pictures of other rhesus monkey faces as discriminative stimuli. The results revealed that this non-human primate is particularly adept at making such discriminations and is not confused by manipulations in orientation; posture; size; color; or illumination.

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