title: A comparative psychophysical approach to visual perception in primates.
abstract: Studies on the visual processing of primates, which have well developed visual systems, provide essential information about the perceptual bases of their higher-order cognitive abilities. Although the mechanisms underlying visual processing are largely shared between human and nonhuman primates, differences have also been reported. In this article, we review psychophysical investigations comparing the basic visual processing that operates in human and nonhuman species, and discuss the future contributions potentially deriving from such comparative psychophysical approaches to primate minds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. toyomi.matsuno@bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Toyomi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuno
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fujita
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D055253:Color Vision / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000502:physiology*; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*