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concept:kohda-et-al-2022-further-evidence-for-mirror-self-recognition-in-cleaner-fish-plos-biologyKohda et al. 2022: Further evidence for mirror self-recognition in cleaner fish (PLOS Biology)
Reported cleaner fish passing mark test with ecologically relevant marks; contested by Gallup
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- Gallup & Anderson 2020: Self-recognition in animals 50 years later (Psychology of Consciousness)contradictsQuestioned rigor of fish mirror self-recognition interpretations
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- Does mark-directed behavior in animals like cleaner fish constitute genuine mirror self-recognition?question0.870Active debate referenced to contextualize the limits of behavioral evidence
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- Claims the model satisfies the core requirements of Mitchell's inductive theory
- The behavioral paradigm (mark/sticker placed on face, checked in mirror) used to evaluate self-awareness in animals and infants
- Mitchell 1993: Mental models of mirror-self-recognition: Two theories (New Ideas in Psychology)concept0.773Source of the inductive and deductive theories of mirror self-recognition
- Mitchell's theory additionally requiring object permanence and objectification of body parts; not fully implemented in the current model
- Chinn et al. 2022: Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in mirror-mark test (Cognition)concept0.764Showed that tactile experience with body targets promotes earlier mirror self-recognition in infants
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