Humans and monkeys share visual representations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 7635-7640

  Fize, Denis ^a,b   Cauchoix, Maxime ^a,b   Fabre Thorpe, Michèle ^a,b  

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

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Homology; Natural scenes; Non human primate; Visual categorization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 79956335008     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016213108     Document Type: Article

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