Covert visual search: A comparison of performance by humans and macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 451-464

  Buračas, Giedrius T ^a,b   Albright, Thomas D ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACACA; MALE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0344654744     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.3.451     Document Type: Article

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