Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Self-referential processing, the preferential treatment of stimuli related to one’s own identity, underpins a wide spectrum of cognitive functions. Central to this field is the investigation of how ...

Most babies begin recognizing themselves in mirrors when they are about a-year-and-a-half old. This kind of self-recognition is an important developmental milestone, and now scientists have discovered ...

Academics have demonstrated that geckos can differentiate their own smell from the skin and feces of other geckos. This discovery casts a new light on the complexity of reptile social connections. The ...

Daniel Povinelli was in high school when he first read about a clever experiment, published in 1970, that showed chimpanzees—but not monkeys--can recognize themselves in mirrors. "I bought into the ...

Source: Bert de Tilly, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Since the 1970s, scientists have employed the mirror test as an assay of self-awareness. If an animal or child ...

Last week I posted a story about an experiment suggesting monkeys can recognize themselves in the mirror. One of the experts I contacted was Peter G. Roma, who was the lead author of a 2007 paper that ...

A cat recognizing a fellow feline's reflection has been dubbed as one step away from "self recognition" by impressed TikTokers. A video of a ginger cat confusedly grappling with a mirror was shared to ...