Visual categorization: Accessing abstraction in non-human primates

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1435, 2003, Pages 1215-1223

  Fabre Thorpe, Michèle ^a  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Cerebral processes; Fast visual processing; Natural scenes; Non human primates; Visual categorization

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; PRIMATE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0041346073     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1310     Document Type: Review

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