Color awareness has long been a puzzle for researchers in neuroscience and psychology, who debate over how many color observers really perceive. A study from Dartmouth in collaboration with Amherst ...

It was the first time a controlled laser mark test has been done on these animals in a wild setting and strengthens the evidence from other studies that monkeys don’t recognise their own reflection.

Wild baboons failed to demonstrate visual self-recognition in a test carried out by anthropologists. Published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study found that while the baboons ...