Nonhuman primates posses a highly developed capacity for face recognition, which
resembles the human capacity both cognitively and neurologically. Face recognition is …

The choice of an appropriate sample size for a study is a notoriously neglected topic in
behavioural research, even though it is of utmost importance and the rules of action are …

This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its profound power over the
human imagination. It examines the structural and ethical role that the human imagination …

Visual area V4 is an important midlevel cortical processing stage that subserves object
recognition in primates. Studies investigating shape coding in V4 have largely probed …

The adaptive significance of human brain evolution has been frequently studied through
comparisons with other primates. However, the evolution of increased brain size is not …

Picture-object equivalence or recognizing a three-dimensional (3D) object after viewing a
two-dimensional (2D) photograph of that object, is a higher-order form of visual cognition …

Pictures are often used in cognitive research to represent objects and many species have
demonstrated the ability to recognize two-dimensional pictures as representations of their …

Humans show a global advantage when processing hierarchical visual patterns, and they
detect the global level of stimulus structure more accurately and faster than the local level in …

The role that visual discriminative ability plays among giant pandas in social communication
and individual discrimination has received less attention than olfactory and auditory …

The question of whether animals perceive pictures as representation of real objects remains
still unsolved. Object-picture perception is generally studied requiring animals to learn some …