The perception of self in birds

NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

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Review

Deregnaucourt, Sebastien^1,2  Bovet, Dalila¹ 

[1] Univ Paris Ouest Nanterre La Def, LECD EA3456, Lab Ethol Cognit Dev, 200 Ave Republ, F-92001 Nanterre, France

[2] Inst Univ France, Paris, France

关键词: Self;    Awareness;    Consciousness;    Recognition;    Birds;    Aves;    Mirror self recognition;    Odor recognition;    Vocalizations;    Bird's Own Song;    Oscine songbirds;    Vocal labeling;    Vocal signature;    Song playback;    Animal cognition;    Neuro-ethology;    Comparative psychology;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.06.039

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

The perception of self is an important topic in several disciplines such as ethology, behavioral ecology, psychology, developmental and cognitive neuroscience. Self-perception is investigated by experimentally exposing different species of animals to self-stimuli such as their own image, smell or vocalizations. Here we review more than one hundred studies using these methods in birds, a taxonomic group that exhibits a rich diversity regarding ecology and behavior. Exposure to self-image is the main method for studying self-recognition, while exposing birds to their own smell is generally used for the investigation of homing or odor-based kin discrimination. Self-produced vocalizations - especially in oscine songbirds - are used as stimuli for understanding the mechanisms of vocal coding/decoding both at the neural and at the behavioral levels. With this review, we highlight the necessity to study the perception of self in animals cross-modally and to consider the role of experience and development, aspects that can be easily monitored in captive populations of birds. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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