Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Hear Rising Frequency Sounds as Looming

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 822-827

  Ghazanfar, Asif A ^a   Maier, Joost X ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

audiovisual looming; doppler effect; multisensory; time to arrival; time to collision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PITCH; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67949092786     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016391     Document Type: Article

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