According to a latest study, monkeys, just like humans, may be soon able to locate where an object is actually placed by just giving a sideways glance.

According to Lau Andersen of the Aarhus University in Denmark, it has been discovered that monkeys can restrict their stimuli for the objects, which they are unable to perceive or recognize.

The researchers say that humans are able to locate an object and can even side-step the things, which come only in their peripheral vision. It has also been revealed by the scientists that humans have a quality to escape a thing sometimes even before perceiving the same.

In order to find out that whether visually guided action and visual perception occurs independently in other primates too, Andersen, who is lead author of the study, conducted a research at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University.

During the study the trained five adult male rhesus monkeys learned to touch one of four locations where an object was temporarily placed, on a touchscreen computer.

According to sources, the monkeys also learned how to perform a detection task with the use of identical stimuli. The completion of these kinds of experiments clearly indicated that a direct comparison between humans and monkeys is very much possible.