The non-human animal reading the mind in the eyes test (NARMET): A new measure for the assessment of social cognition.

ABSTRACT: The Reading the Mind in the Eyes test (RMET) is a widely applied test of social cognition, based on mental state judgments in response to photographs of human eyes, which can elicit impairment in patients with numerous psychiatric and neurological disorders. However, interpretation of task performance is limited without the use of appropriate control tasks. In addition to a matched task requiring age judgments of the RMET stimuli, it was recently shown that a mental state judgment task of comparable difficulty, could be developed using photographs of domestic cat eyes. The current study aimed to further develop a Non-human Animal RMET (NARMET) by testing additional stimuli in the form of photographs of domestic dog eyes. A variety of additional tasks were used alongside the eyes test stimu

SUBMITTER: Eddy CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10069677 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature