Vision: the evolution of change detection.
New evidence suggests that the human visual system incorporates a high-level, functionally specialised system for monitoring animals. Such a mechanism may have evolved to direct attention differentially to ancestrally important categories of objects, regardless of their current relevance.
Rees
Geraint
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Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK. g.rees@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*