Pupil size and social vigilance in rhesus macaques

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 MAY, 2014, Pages

  Ebitz, R Becket ^a,b   Pearson, John M ^b   Platt, Michael L ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distractibility; Pupil light response; Pupil size; Social attention; Social vigilance; Task performance

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PUPIL; RESPONSE TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84905020362     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00100     Document Type: Article

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