Mental rotation and rotational invariance in the Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 158-166

  Köhler, Christian ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^a   Dehnhardt, Guido ^a   Mauck, Björn ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FLYING; GAIT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAND BIOME; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; IMAGINATION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; HOMINIDAE; MACACA MULATTA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 24744433071     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087156     Document Type: Article

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