Can We Train Primates to Be in a Brain Scanner?

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Can we look into the brains of the primates to see different things happening in different parts of the brain, and then compare them with humans? Or is that something i's just too hard to do? Well, we we are in a situation where people are training dogs and monkeys to be in a brain scanner an so there is, there is a non invasive nervo science coming up for animals. It's really only in the beginning stages. I would prefer that we do it this way than than the invasive nervoscience that we've had in the past. Bute. Welarry te typical sex role behaviour. So i think there's much more diversity than people think.

Humans are related to all other species here on Earth, but some are closer relatives than others. Primates, a group that includes apes, monkeys, lemurs, and others besides ourselves, are our closest relatives, and they exhibit a wide variety of behaviors that we can easily recognize. Frans de Waal is a leading primatologist and ethologist who has long studied cognition and collective behaviors in chimps, bonobos, and other species. His work has established the presence of politics, morality, and empathy in primates. His new book is Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.

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Frans de Waal received his Ph.D. in biology from Utrecht University. He is currently Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Among his awards are the Knight of the order of the Netherlands Lion, the Galileo Prize, ASP Distinguished Primatologist, and the PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, not to mention an Ig Nobel Prize.

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