Luminance and chromatic discrimination in the horse (Equus caballus)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 301-307

  Macuda, Todd ^a   Timney, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromatic discrimination; Colour vision; Horse; Luminance discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORSE; LUMINANCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0033013309     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00039-4     Document Type: Article

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