Rapid categorization of natural images by rhesus monkeys
Rapid categorization of natural images by rhesus monkeys
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DOI：
10.1097/00001756-199801260-00023
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发表时间：
1998-01-26
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1.7
通讯作者：
Thorpe, SJ
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作者：
Fabre-Thorpe, M;Richard, G;Thorpe, SJ
两个恒河猴进行了测试的分类任务，其中他们必须分类以前看不见的照片闪烁只有80毫秒。一只猴子被训练来应对动物的存在，第二个存在的食物。尽管猴子在测试相同材料时的准确度不如人类，但它们在这项极具挑战性的视觉任务中表现得非常出色。此外，他们的反应时间甚至比最快的人类受试者要短得多。这些数据，结合对猴子视觉系统的详细了解，对当前的视觉处理理论提出了严峻的挑战。他们还认为，这种形式的快速视觉分类在猴子和人类中基本相似。
Two rhesus macaques were tested on a categorization task in which they had to classify previously unseen photographs flashed for only 80 ms. One monkey was trained to respond to the presence of an animal, the second to the presence of food. Although the monkeys were not quite as accurate as humans tested on the same material, they nevertheless performed this very challenging visual task remarkably well. Furthermore, their reaction times were considerably shorter than even the fastest human subject. Such data, combined with the detailed knowledge of the monkey's visual system, provide a severe challenge to current theories of visual processing. They also argue that this form of rapid visual categorization is fundamentally similar in both monkeys and humans.