How the Mirror Test Tries to Measure Animal Cognition

Hello Readers, myself Doc Antle and I am here to share with you'll an interesting blog on the “Mirror Test,” officially called the “Mirror Self-Recognition” test or MSR test, was invented by Dr. Gordon Gallup Jr. in 1970. Gallup, a biopsychologist, created the MSR test to assess the self-awareness of animals — more specifically, whether animals are visually able to recognize themselves when in front of a mirror. Gallup believed that self-recognition could be considered synonymous with self-awareness.If animals recognized themselves in the mirror, Gallup hypothesized, they could be considered capable of introspection.

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