Perception of illusory surfaces and contours in goldfish

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 291-298

  Wyzisk, Katja ^a   Neumeyer, Christa ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Form vision; Goldfish; Illusory contours; Kanizsa triangle; Training experiments

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLDFISH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FORM PERCEPTION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GOLDFISH; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34548487109     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380707023X     Document Type: Article

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