Discrimination of faces and houses by rhesus monkeys: The role of stimulus expertise and rotation angle

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 467-474

  Parr, Lisa A ^a,b   Heintz, Matthew ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Configural cues; Expertise; Face processing; Rotation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; ROTATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROTATION;

MACACA MULATTA; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 46549086211     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0137-4     Document Type: Article

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