creators_name: Humphrey, Nicholas K
creators_name: Keeble, Graham R
type: journalp
datestamp: 2001-08-16
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:46
metadata_visibility: show
title: Effects of red light and loud noise on the rate at which monkeys sample the sensory environment
ispublished: pub
subjects: behav-neuro-sci
subjects: bio-ani-behav
subjects: psy-bio
full_text_status: public
keywords: timing behaviour, sampling, bio-rhythms, colour, noise, monkeys 
abstract: Monkeys, given the opportunity to move between two featureless chambers, 'sample' first one, then the other in a way which reflects a Poisson decision process. The rate of sampling is higher in red light than in blue and in loud noise than in quietness. We suggest that monkeys 'tune' their sampling rate to the a priori probability of change in the environment.
date: 1978
date_type: published
publication: Perception
volume: 7
pagerange: 343-348
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Humphrey, Nicholas K and Keeble, Graham R  (1978) Effects of red light and loud noise on the rate at which monkeys sample the sensory environment.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1736/2/Perception78.pdf