How the Thatcher illusion reveals evolutionary differences in the face processing of primates

Animal Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 691-700

  Weldon, Kimberly B ^a   Taubert, Jessica ^b   Smith, Carolynn L ^a   Parr, Lisa A ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Evolution; Face recognition; Matching to sample; Rhesus monkey; Visual illusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PAN; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FACE; FEMALE; ILLUSION; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; ILLUSIONS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRIMATES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84882916903     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-013-0604-4     Document Type: Article

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