Evidence of Conscious Awareness and Non-Conscious Perception in Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta)

Whether animals are aware remains a long debated but unanswered question. Here, we utilized a well-known double dissociation of awareness –cases where people behave in completely opposite ways when stimuli are processed consciously versus non-consciously. Using this method, we establish two distinct awareness modes in one non-human species –rhesus monkeys.