ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Cleaner fish recognize self in a mirror via self-face recognition like humans.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
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- On the mirror test and the evolutionary origin of self-awareness in vertebrates.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Evolutionary Trajectories of Consciousness: From Biological Foundations to Technological Horizons.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Three-spined sticklebacks recognize familiar individuals by facial recognition.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- The fish challenge to vertebrate cognitive evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Cleaner wrasse failed in early testing stages of both visual and spatial working memory paradigms.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Using an Automated Operant Conditioning Procedure to Test Colour Discrimination in Two Juvenile Piranhas,Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Cleaner fish with mirror self-recognition capacity precisely realize their body size based on their mental image.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Correlation between bioluminescent blinks and swimming behavior in the splitfin flashlight fish Anomalops katoptron.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- The ability of teleost fishes to recognize individual faces suggests an early evolutionary origin in vertebrates.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Evolution of Consciousness.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Individuality really matters for fish welfare.The veterinary quarterly · 2023Article
- Gene losses, parallel evolution and heightened expression confer adaptations to dedicated cleaning behaviour.BMC biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Some animals have the remarkable capacity for mirror self-recognition (MSR), yet any implications for self-awareness remain uncertain and controversial. This is largely because explicit tests of the two potential mechanisms underlying MSR are still lacking: mental image of the self and kinesthetic visual matching. Here, we test the hypothesis that MSR ability in cleaner fish,
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