Spotting animals in natural scenes: Efficiency of humans and monkeys at very low contrasts

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 405-418

  Macé, Marc J M ^a,b   Delorme, Arnaud ^a   Richard, Ghislaine ^a   Fabre Thorpe, Michèle ^a  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Categorization; Fast visual processing; Humans; Low contrast; Macaques; Natural scenes

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HAPLORHINI; MACACA; PRIMATES;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACACA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954670655     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0290-4     Document Type: Article

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