Humans and Macaques Employ Similar Face-Processing Strategies

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 509-513

  Dahl, Christoph D ^a   Wallraven, Christian ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE; FACE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MACACA; MOUTH; NOSE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE; FACE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MACACA; MOUTH; NOSE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 62549100402     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.01.061     Document Type: Article

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