Temporal and spatial categorization in human and non-human primates

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mendez, Juan Carlos ^a   Prado, Luis ^a   Mendoza, German ^a   Merchant, Hugo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Categorization; Psychophysics; Rhesus monkeys; Time and space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL CATEGORIZATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CATEGORIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 82255179992     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00050     Document Type: Article

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