An advantage for concavities in shape perception by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-258

  Matsuno, T ^a,b   Tomonaga, M ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Concavity; Convexity; Object perception; Shape representation

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; SHAPE; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 34249692548     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.02.028     Document Type: Article

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