Visual search for biological motion patterns in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Psychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 46-59

  Tomonaga, Masaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological motions; Chimpanzees; Search asymmetry; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044526408     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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