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Individual recognition and the 'face inversion effect' in medaka fish (
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- No sensitive period for the development of individual face learning inBehavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2024Article
- Innate face-selectivity in the brain of young domestic chicks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- An evolutionarily distinct Hmgn2 variant influences shape recognition in Medaka Fish.Communications biology · 2024Article
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- Epigenetically distinct synaptic architecture in clonal compartments in the teleostean dorsal pallium.eLife · 2023Article
- African jewel fish (Hemichromis bimaculatus) distinguish individual faces based on their unique iridophore patterns.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Cleaner fish recognize self in a mirror via self-face recognition like humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Mating experiences with the same partner enhanced mating activities of naïve male medaka fish.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Visual Perception of Photographs of Rotated 3D Objects in Goldfish (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Comparison of anxiety-like and social behaviour in medaka and zebrafish.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Individual recognition is associated with holistic face processing inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Individual recognition (IR) is essential for maintaining various social interactions in a group, and face recognition is one of the most specialised cognitive abilities in IR. We used both a mating preference system and an electric shock conditioning experiment to test IR ability in medaka, and found that signals near the face are important. Medaka required more time to discriminate vertically inverted faces, but not horizontally shifted faces or inverted non-face objects. The ability may be comparable to the classic 'face inversion effect' in humans and some other mammals. Extra patterns added to the face also did not influence the IR. These findings suggest the possibility that the process of face recognition may differ from that used for other objects. The complex form of recognition may promote specific processing adaptations, although the mechanisms and neurological bases might differ in mammals and medaka. The ability to recognise other individuals is important for shaping animal societies.
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