Abstract. What Separates Us From Other Animals? We Have

In the video, the uniqueness of humans by Robert Sapolsky, explains how animals are not that different than humans. Dr. Sapolsky explains even though animals and humans look different, we all have similar genes. Furthermore, when he breaks down what makes humans unique, he correlates animals` behavior with human behavior; in which, involuntarily makes humans and animals have the same behavior. Dr. Sapolsky shows that even though humans and animals have similar behaviors, humans thought process is more advanced than animals.

Jeremy Rifkin wants us to believe that animals are similar to humans. I personally think that I agree and disagree with his argument. One reason why I agree with Rifkin is because I believe animals have feelings, just like Rifkin said “They feel pain, suffer, and experience stress, affection, excitement, and even love.” (Rifkin 33). On the other hand, I disagree with Jeremy’s argument because I don’t think we should go out of our way to pay more attention to these animals feelings when we have millions of children that don’t even get the amount of attention these pigs are getting.

This double dissociation therefore suggests that recognition of faces and common objects is served by different mechanisms that are independent for each other. Although brain cells of face recognition have not been located, some functional models could help us interpret face recognition and prosopagnosia. One of the most influential models was proposed by Bruce and Young (1986). In this model face recognition involves several steps, and three steps more relate to prosopagnosia.

After recovering, the chimpanzees would often touch the red mark, when they looked in the mirror. This supports the idea that higher-primates are capable of self-recognition. This experiment was tried out on other animals e.g. cats, dogs, and elephants with unsuccessful results. The fact that no other animals responded to this experiment means that it cannot be said for sure that all non-human animals are capable of self-recognition.

We The Animals, a novel by Justin Torres, is a series of stories follows the young narrator's life as he grows into adolescence living in an family of five. The narrator's father sporadically leaves them and the three boys are mostly left to themselves or in the care of their emotionally unstable mother. Over the course of “We The Animals” the family is able to stay hopeful by purposefully ignoring the current issues at hand. The family on multiple occasions has had moments of intimacy while in large conflict.

There are several different types of psychological and neurological phenomena that individuals live with every day. One of most interesting conditions that many individuals might not be aware of is prosopagnosia or face blindness. Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize and distinguish faces. For example, individuals with this condition could have difficulty recognizing their child’s, spouse’s, parent’s, or friend’s face. Many individuals with prosopagnosia will rely on other features to distinguish between other people, such as hair style or color, voices, or posture. As discussed in Chapter 3, prosopagnosia is thought to affect the Fusiform Face Area.

It is important because from the findings of this experiment, we can relate it to the attractiveness adults see in other adults. Adults who are more attractive and have a symmetrical face are preferred over others. This experiment also brought up a good fact that, no matter what age you are, it is harder to distinguish a face if inverted. This experiment overall not only provides information about newborn infants perception, it provides a basis for development. We can use this information and connect it to development from birth to

There are very few things that separate us from animals, opposable thumbs are pretty nice, but the true thing that makes us human is our ability to plan for the future and to be retrospective.

An essential aspect of humanity that enables us to separate ourselves from the rest of the animal kingdom has been there from the start, this aspect is language. As we have evolved, so has our language. Being able to communicate in a more complex manner than other species has enabled us to perceive the world in a new light and with a more collective mindset. Therefore, we have become a species that is able to see things just from hearing people speak about them. That is not the full extent of our ability, as we are able to see with much more than just an auditory or visual input.

This essay will talk about face recognition and several reasons why it has been studied separately. The ability to recognise faces is of huge significance of people’s daily life and differs in important ways from other forms of object recognition (Bruce and Young, 1986). Than this essay will talk about the processes involved in face recognition which comes from the diversity of research about familiar and unfamiliar faces-it includes behavioural studies, studies on brain-damaged patients, and neuroimaging studies. Finally, it will discuss how face recognition differs from the recognition of other object by involving more holistic or configuration processing and different areas of the brain (Eysenck & Keane, 2005).

Humans are similar to certain animals (e.g. monkeys) in certain ways. This may be due to evolution, or the evolution of humans. In 1801, Lamarck’s Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics was first presented. The theory states that if an organism changes during life in order to adapt to its environment, those changes are passed on to its offspring and that the change is made by what the organisms want or need. In 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace published a new evolutionary theory, explained in detail in Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Unlike Lamarck, Darwin proposed common descent and a branching tree of life, meaning that two very different species could share a common ancestor. Research has shown that the early humans shared a common ancestor with some primates, which is why we may look or act like them. However, humans are still evolving today. Evolutionary biologists have

For centuries, there were forms of facial recognition disorders reported. It wasn’t until 1844 that developmental prosopagnosia (DP) was first reported. Joachim Bodamer coined the term prosopagnosia in1947. Prosopagnosia is the inability to distinguish faces; it can also be referred to as facial blindness. People who have prosopagnosia can’t recognize faces, but they can tell that a face is a face. Not being able to recognize faces is just one of the impairments that can occur with prosopagnosia, you can also have deficits in recognition of objects, cars, judging age or gender. It has also reported that some cannot recognize their own face when looking at it. Researchers agree that prosopagnosia does not just happen one-way; people can

Animal rights are an important topic to discuss and review. The trouble is the vast diversity of how people see humans and animals and how they are different and yet the same. Animals are in every aspect of our lives in how they are utilized to make our lives easier, to sustain us, or as a pet. Unfortunately, the line of animals and humans blurs as the widely known belief that we are a derivation of an animal and we should treat them as we would ourselves. This viewpoint, however, can be taken to an extreme as we see pets that can be pampered quite a bit. Relating back to the four authors in our text, there is considerable controversy on how animals should be treated. While some interesting positions arise with the various authors, to

Bruce and Young’s theory of recognition tells us that human’s extract several kinds of information from faces; and that there are eight different components of such information. Such as structural encoding, expression analysis, facial speech analysis, directed visual processing, face recognition nodes,

The aim of the present study was to investigate which hemisphere is specialised for the perception of emotion. It was hypothesised that participants will judge chimeric faces with smile presented in the left visual field as happier more often than chimeric faces with the smile presented in the right visual field. Twenty-six psychology students were asked to judge chimeric faces with one half being a smiling expression and the other half with a neutral expression. The images were presented in their left and right visual field. Over 28 experimental trials the participants were asked to judge which face they thought looked happier. The percentage of chimeric faces judged as happier for both left and right visual field was recorded. The hypothesis was supported: chimeric faces with smile presented in the left visual field as happier more often than chimeric faces with the smile presented in the right visual field.