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    Vision-centered study designs in comparative cognition are biased toward human sensory norms

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    • 1.Jakob von Uexküll's concept of 'Umwelt' establishes that each species constructs a perceptual world defined by its species-specific sensory apparatus.
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    • 2.Designing cognitive tests around visual stimuli presupposes a human Umwelt as the standard, systematically rendering non-visual Umwelten methodologically invisible.
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    • 3.A methodology that cannot represent the subject's own perceptual world cannot reliably measure that subject's cognitive capacities.
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    • 1.Thomas Nagel's argument in 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' demonstrates that human conceptual frameworks are structurally inadequate for capturing echolocatory experience.
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    • 2.If our conceptual frameworks cannot represent non-visual experience, then empirical designs built from those frameworks will operationalize cognition in ways that exclude non-visual cognitive expression.
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    • 3.Methodological bias is therefore not merely contingent on researcher preference but is entrenched in the anthropocentric structure of human scientific cognition itself.
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    • 1.Vision is the primary and most valued sensory modality for humans
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    • 2.Human researchers design studies (such as the MSR test and gaze-following measures of joint attention) that privilege visual modalities
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    • 3.Non-human animals may express the same cognitive capacities through non-visual modalities, which vision-centered designs fail to detect
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    Another good example of how the design of studies in comparative cognition is value-laden is the mirror self-recognition (MSR) test, which was originally envisioned by Gordon Gallup (1970) to probe animals’ self-awareness. In this test, an animal is first allowed to become familiarized with a mirror. In a second step, the animal is anesthetized and an odorless mark is painted on their forehead. The behavior of the animal in front of the mirror is then observed, to see whether they interact with
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