Talk:Primates-May 2018/@comment-35453425-20181213061153/@comment-2602:306:CE45:99B0:E154:5989:EAC8:5653-20181218153421

Good points, Molly, They sort of set up this cross-species strawman to knock down at the expense of something more general and true to the animals' perceptual faculties.

This literature needs a cool program that creates authentic-looking monkey faces with features that the researcher describes. You could create a big stimulus set that includes Hank's face, and Gabe's face, and (~thinking of other ugly monkeys~) Courtney's face, but also hybrid faces with Gambit's head shape and Benny's colors and Monet's eyes etc. etc.. Then you could do a sort of strategy analysis like in Seamonkeys to divine to what extent the animal is just responding based on features (if Nkima's nose, choose familiar, or whatever) vs the global configuration.