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Investigating Visual Perception and Cognition in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Through Visual Search and Related Tasks: From Basic to Complex Processes

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Our visual environment is filled with an abundance of objects. When we see these objects, our visual system initially processes their features in a parallel manner and then integrates these features into objects using selective attention. It has been about 20 years since Treisman first proposed this “feature integration theory” (Treisman and Gelade 1980). Visual search and texture segregation tasks have revealed many interesting phenomena directly related to the feature integration theory: “pop-out”, search asymmetry, conjunction search, etc. Based on these findings, this theory was modified (Treisman and Sato 1990), and alternative models have also been proposed (e.g., guided search models, Wolfe 1994a; Wolfe et al. 1989).

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Tomonaga, M. (2008). Investigating Visual Perception and Cognition in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Through Visual Search and Related Tasks: From Basic to Complex Processes. In: Matsuzawa, T. (eds) Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-09423-4_3

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