Fabre-Thorpe M, Richard G, Thorpe S J
Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (UMR 5549), Faculté de Médecine de Rangueil, Toulouse, France.
Neuroreport. 1998 Jan 26;9(2):303-8. doi: 10.1097/00001756-199801260-00023.
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.
对两只恒河猴进行了一项分类任务测试，在该任务中，它们必须对仅闪现80毫秒的先前未见过的照片进行分类。一只猴子被训练对动物的出现做出反应，另一只则对食物的出现做出反应。尽管这些猴子在相同材料测试中的准确性不如人类，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，它们的反应时间甚至比最快的人类受试者还要短得多。这些数据，再加上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挑战。它们还表明，这种快速视觉分类形式在猴子和人类中从根本上是相似的。
