Being able to read others' affective states and intentions from facial expressions is crucial for social interaction. Nonhuman primates share the same ability as humans to express emotions via facial expressions, yet we are not sure whether monkeys can read emotions from the faces of other species (e.g., humans).
Recently, a research group led by Dr. Dai Ji from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically investigated how monkeys perceive emotions from human faces and monkey faces with
and sophisticated behavioral tasks, namely the temporal discrimination task and the face scan task .In the TDT, monkeys were trained to determine the presenting duration of human and monkey faces, which included three different expressions . From this behavioral paradigm, a subjective time perception curve could be built for each monkey.
The researchers found that monkeys showed prolonged subjective time perception in response to negativein monkeys. In the meantime, pupil tracking revealed that monkey faces also reliably induced divergent pupil contraction in response to different expressions, while human faces and scrambled monkey faces did not.
The schematic of the FST. Examples of facial stimuli and the definitions of eye, nose, and mouth regions for a human face, a monkey face, and a monkey face with scrambled eyes. Credit: SIAT In the FST, monkeys were trained to observe monkey and human faces freely. This experiment intended to uncover monkeys' scanning patterns on human or monkey faces. The results indicated that monkeys only displayed bias toward emotional expressions upon observing monkey faces. In addition, masking the eye region marginally decreased the viewing duration for monkey faces but not for
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