Subsecond timing in primates: Comparison of interval production between human subjects and rhesus monkeys

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3191-3202

  Zarco, Wilbert ^a   Merchant, Hugo ^a   Prado, Luis ^a   Mendez, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR TIMING PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRIMATES; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72749121298     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00066.2009     Document Type: Article

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