Pulvinar neurons reveal neurobiological evidence of past selection for rapid detection of snakes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 19000-19005

  Le, Quan Van ^a   Isbell, Lynne A ^b   Matsumoto, Jumpei ^a   Nguyen, Minh ^a   Hori, Etsuro ^a   Maior, Rafael S ^c   Tomaz, Carlos ^c   Tran, Anh Hai ^a   Ono, Taketoshi ^a   Nishijo, Hisao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HAND; HAPLORHINI; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; RETINA IMAGE; SNAKE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EVOLUTION; LOW-PASS FILTERED IMAGES; SNAKE DETECTION THEORY; VISUAL RESPONSES;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MACACA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PULVINAR; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SNAKES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84888096214     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312648110     Document Type: Article

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