Visual recognition of age class and preference for infantile features: Implications for species-specific vs universal cognitive traits in primates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Sato, Anna ^a   Koda, Hiroki ^a   Lemasson, Alban ^b,c   Nagumo, Sumiharu ^a   Masataka, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COGNITION; FACIES; FEMALE; GAZE; HAPLORHINI; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; FACE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; VISION;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; MACACA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; FACE; PRIMATES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861702425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038387     Document Type: Article

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