Discrimination of locomotion direction in impoverished displays of walkers by macaque monkeys

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1-19

  Vangeneugden, Joris ^a   Vancleef, Kathleen ^a   Jaeggli, Tobias ^b   VanGool, Luc ^b   Vogels, Rufin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Electrophysiology; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; WALKING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956420095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.4.22     Document Type: Article

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