Naturalistic color discriminations in polymorphic platyrrhine monkeys: Effects of stimulus luminance and duration examined with functional substitution

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-23

  Rowe, Mickey P ^a   Jacobs, Gerald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Cone pigments; Fruit discrimination; New World monkeys; Opsin genes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ILLUMINATION; LUMINANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLATYRRHINI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CALLITRICHINAE; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FRUIT; OPSIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PLANT LEAVES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RETINAL PIGMENTS;

EID: 34247857580     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523807230159     Document Type: Article

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