Spectral tuning of dichromats to natural scenes

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 3257-3271

  Chiao, Chuan Chin ^a   Vorobyev, Misha ^a,b   Cronin, Thomas W ^a   Osorio, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color vision; Dichromacy; Natural scene; Spectral tuning; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; FISH; FOREST; ILLUMINATION; MAMMAL; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; REVIEW; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0033811135     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00156-5     Document Type: Article

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