Evidence that emotion mediates social attention in rhesus macaques.

BACKGROUND: Recent work on non-human primates indicates that the allocation of social attention is mediated by characteristics of the attending animal, such as social status and genotype, as well as by the value of the target to which attention is directed. Studies of humans indicate that an individ...

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Main Authors: Emily J Bethell, Amanda Holmes, Ann Maclarnon, Stuart Semple
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3431396?pdf=render