Visual texture segregation by the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 209-218

  Tomonaga, Masaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Chimpanzee; Comparison; Texture segregation; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032936341     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00105-3     Document Type: Article

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