Authors: Joel Fagot
ISBN-13: 9781841691565, ISBN-10: 1841691569
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
For 35 years, visual recognition by animals has been studied by showing the subjects pictures of social or non-social objects, or scenes without questioning much the validity of pictorial representations. Here comparative psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists address that issue by asking such questions as whether animals recognize visual objects or scenes on pictures despite variations in viewpoint, the extent to which birds recognize the real world from its two-dimensional representations, and whether monkeys extract gaze information from pictures.
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List of contributors | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Preface | ||
Picture-object recognition in pigeons | 1 | |
The pigeon's perception of depth-rotated shapes | 37 | |
How do pigeons see pictures? Recognition of the real world from its 2-D representation | 71 | |
Use of pictures to investigate aspects of pigeons' spatial cognition | 91 | |
Recognition of objects and spatial relations in pictures across changes in viewpoint | 107 | |
What do birds see in moving video images? | 143 | |
Pictorial same-different categorical learning and discrimination in pigeons | 181 | |
Generic perception: open-ended categorization of natural classes | 219 | |
Picture perception in primates: The case of face perception | 263 | |
What is the evidence for an equivalence between objects and pictures in birds and nonhuman primates? | 295 | |
Reshaping neuronal representations of visual scenes through attention | 321 | |
Visual cues for attention following in rhesus monkeys | 343 | |
Primates and representations of self | 373 | |
Pictorial perception: individual and group differences within the human species | 397 | |
Author index | 431 | |
Subject index | 443 |