Do honeybees detect colour targets using serial or parallel visual search?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 987-993

  Spaethe, Johannes ^a,b   Tautz, Jürgen ^a   Chittka, Lars ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Colour vision; Foraging; Search asymmetries; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; PRIMATES;

EID: 33645787815     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02124     Document Type: Article

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