Is chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) spatial attention reflexively triggered by gaze cue?

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 156-170

  Tomonaga, Masaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes); Cueing paradigm; Gaze; Social cognition; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; IMITATION; ORIENTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 34249105466     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.121.2.156     Document Type: Article

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