Key visual features for rapid categorization of animals in natural scenes

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2010, Pages

  Delorme, Arnaud ^a,b   Richard, Ghislaine ^a,b   Fabre Thorpe, Michele ^a,b  

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

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Animal; Processing dynamics; Rapid categorization; Reaction time; Visual features

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862074993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00021     Document Type: Article

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