Do bees like Van Gogh's Sunflowers?

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 4-6, 2006, Pages 323-328

  Chittka, Lars ^a   Walker, Julian ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bumblebee; Colour preference; Colour vision; Primate; SciArt

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PAINTING; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

BUMBLEBEE; COLOR PREFERENCE; PRIMATE; SCIART;

COLOR VISION;

EID: 33144460929     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2005.06.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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