The Elephant in the Mirror: Bridging the Brain's Explanatory Gap of Consciousness

Commentary: Spontaneous expression of mirror self-recognition in monkeys after learning precise visual-proprioceptive association for mirror images

“…Previous studies suggested that monkey species could not exhibit self-recognition behaviors and failed the MSR test (Roma et al, 2007 ; Macellini et al, 2010 ). The new methodology in the present study would therefore inspire more studies to explore self-recognition in primates and even non-primates (Salzen and Cornell, 1968 ; Berry and Parker, 2016 ; Deregnaucourt and Bovet, 2016 ). Otherwise, the new strategy is probable to remedy self-recognition disorder in schizophrenia (SZ) via specific training.…”