Perception of the Ponzo illusion by rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees, and humans: Similarity and difference in the three primate species

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 284-292

  Fujita, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACACA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031065935     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211896     Document Type: Article

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