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Object Recognition and Object Categorization in Animals

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Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior

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One of the most important attributes of cognitive activities in both human and nonhuman animals is the ability to recognize individual objects and to categorize a variety of objects that share some properties. Wild-living spider monkeys, for example, individually recognize their partners and a large number of other con-specifics quickly and accurately regardless of their highly variable spatial attitudes and also discriminate them from other species (J. Delius, personal observation). Object recognition and object categorization are both equally vital for most of the advanced animals.

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Jitsumori, M., Delius, J.D. (2008). Object Recognition and Object Categorization in Animals. In: Matsuzawa, T. (eds) Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-09423-4_13

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