Psychology & Neuroscience Research: Recent submissions
Now showing items 31-35 of 37
-
What visual information is used for stereoscopic depth displacement discrimination?
(2010) - Journal articleThere are two ways to detect a displacement in stereoscopic depth, namely by monitoring the change in disparity over time (CDOT) or by monitoring the inter-ocular velocity difference (IOVD). Though previous studies have ... -
Evidence for weak or linear conformity but not for hyper-conformity in an everyday social learning context
(2012-02-20) - Journal articleConformity is thought to be an important force in cultural evolution because it has the potential to stabilize cooperation in large groups, potentiate group selection and thus explain uniquely human behaviors. However, the ... -
The maker not the tool: The cognitive significance of great ape manual skills
(Mcdonald Institute, 2005) - Book itemTool-use by chimpanzees has attracted disproportionate attention among primatologists, because of an understandable wish to understand the evolutionary origins of hominin tool use. In archaeology and paleoanthropology, a ... -
The manual skills and cognition that lie behind hominid tool use
(Cambridge University Press, 2004) - Book itemTool use is an important aspect of being human that has assumed a central place in accounts of the evolutionary origins of human intelligence. This has inevitably focused a spotlight on any signs of tool use or manufacture ... -
What do Diana monkeys know about the focus of attention of a conspecific?
(2004) - Journal articleConverging experimental and observational evidence suggests that some non-human primates are able to co-orient with shifts in visual attention, both of conspecifics and humans. However, the underlying cognitive mechanisms ...