title: Behavioral evidence for visual perception of 3-dimensional surface structures in monkeys.
abstract: Human subjects perceive two crossing bars, one in front of the other, when shown a cross with disparity added to its horizontal limbs, and they also perceive neon-color spreading when shown a stereoscopic Redies-Spillmann figure. It has thus been hypothesized that the human visual system follows the principle of generic image sampling in reconstructing 3-dimensional (3-D) surface structures. Here we examine whether monkeys also perceive these surface structures. The results indicate that monkeys, like humans, perceive two crossing bars and neon-color spreading and suggest that the principle of generic image sampling may also be applied to visual perception in monkeys.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fujita
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology; D003867:Depth Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D008027:Light; D008251:Macaca / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009903:Optical Illusions / Q000502:physiology; D011601:Psychophysics; D012438:Saccades; D013053:Spectrophotometry