Effects of Size and Shape of Aperture upon Visual Exploration by Rhesus Monkeys
- 1 April 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 20 (2) , 581-589
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1965.20.2.581
Abstract
The amount of time that adult rhesus monkeys ( N = 10) looked out from an enclosed box through a circular peephole increased with diameter of aperture and decreased with thickness of aperture. Choices between two peepholes were similarly a function of differences in diameter. With rectangular apertures, the horizontal extent was more important than the vertical extent in maintaining looking. Throughout 5 experiments the crucial variable seemed to be the effective area of the available visual field or fields.Keywords
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