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    It is not the case that Vision-centered study designs in comparative cognition are biased toward human sensory norms

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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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    • 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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