Colloque - Arun SP : Do Monkeys See the Way We Do?

Stanislas Dehaene
Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale
Année 2025-2026
Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain
Theme: Neural Codes in Monkeys and Humans
Do Monkeys See the Way We Do?

Colloque - Arun SP : Do Monkeys See the Way We Do?

Arun SP

Résumé

Monkeys are widely used as model organisms for vision and cognition. While their anatomy and physiology have strong correspondences with humans, it is unclear whether they truly see the way we do. In most studies, monkeys are extensively trained on specific tasks, leaving us without a more general answer to this question, along with the nagging doubt that the extensive training might have altered their perception. So how do we then test whether monkeys see the way we do?