The angular range of achromatic target detection by honey bees

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 101-110

  Giurfa, M ^a   Vorobyev, M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detection; Green contrast; Honeybee; Receptive fields; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031811461     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050238     Document Type: Article

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