The perception of two-tone Mooney faces in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-28

  Taubert, Jessica ^a   Parr, Lisa A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative data; Face categorization; Neural specialization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; FACE CATEGORIZATION; FACIES; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TWO TONE MOONEY FACE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 84858272660     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2011.578737     Document Type: Article

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