Spatial orientation in a real space according to abstract visual stimuli: Transformation of geometric features of stimuli
Abstract
In previous experiments we demonstrated that macaque monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were able to orient in a real space according to abstract spatial stimuli presented on a computer screen. We used visual stimuli of both types: "spatial" (designed as a representation of the real "response space") and "non-spatial" (simple patterns without any implicit spatial information).
In present experiments we studied an ability of macaque monkeys to orient in the real space according to the spatial stimuli rotated in frontal plane against the real space or according to stimuli with transformed geometric features. We changed the geometric features of stimuli: angles and the lengths of walls.
We studied which strategy the monkeys used to represent such abstract spatial stimuli.