Rapid categorization of natural scenes in monkeys: Target predictability and processing speed

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 349-354

  Macé, Marc J M ^a   Richard, Ghislaine ^a   Delorme, Arnaud ^a,b   Fabre Thorpe, Michèle ^a  

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

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Early visual processing; Low level cues; Macaques; Natural scenes; Recognition; Target predictability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES COMPARISON; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 15944396524     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200503150-00009     Document Type: Article

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