Visual information processing in the lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus): Mental rotation or rotational invariance?

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 168-176

  Burmann, Britta ^a   Dehnhardt, Guido ^b   Mauck, Björn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive ecology; Comparative cognition; Mammals; Mental representation; Mental rotation; Primates; Visual information processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; FLIGHT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; MENTAL CAPACITY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; IMAGINATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTATION; VISION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; HOMINIDAE; MACACA SILENUS; MAMMALIA; OTARIIDAE; PANTHERA LEO; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ECOLOGY; FEMALE; IMAGINATION; MACACA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 15944429386     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083626     Document Type: Article

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