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Most importantly, the vision of primates became much more powerful so that they could detect snakes lurking in the foliage.
They can detect snakes and turtle eggs.
(Plus, given that snakesare more of a predatory threat to primates than spiders, studies show that humans detect snakes more rapidly—supporting the idea of amygdala "memories" in which the level of anxiety corresponds to the evolutionary threat at hand).
In addition to confirming previous findings [2], [4], [5], [7], the present study clearly showed that humans detect snakes more rapidly in photos in which the snake displays a striking posture than in photos showing a resting snake.
More recent studies have documented that preschool children, 8- to 14-month-old infants, and even non-human primates also detect snakes more quickly than flowers [5], [6], [7].
For example, work with the visual search paradigm has demonstrated that participants who are afraid of spiders, but not snakes, will detect spiders more quickly than snakes, whereas participants who are afraid of snakes, but not spiders, will detect snakes more quickly than spiders [37].
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But even if we have neurons dedicated to detecting snakes, that doesn't mean that we have to be terrified of them.
There is some evidence that primates are especially skilled at detecting snakes that aren't moving, she says, and that ability may underlie another primate-specific skill: using vision to guide reaching and grasping movements.
In contrast, outside the range of venomous snakes, no bear that detected snakes reacted fearfully in four natural encounters (12TD, 13LR, 14LR, 15LR) and five human-induced encounters (16LR, 17LR, 18LR, 19LR and 20LR).
Her research has shown that humans aren't always faster at detecting snakes than other threats, including guns and cars, which we haven't evolved to fear innately.
Reaction times to detect different target snakes embedded in matrices of lizards were compared with reaction times to detect target lizards embedded in matrices of snakes.
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