The absolute threshold of colour vision in the horse

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Roth, Lina S V ^a   Balkenius, Anna ^b   Kelber, Almut ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GELDING; HORSE; HUMAN; LIGHT INTENSITY; MALE; MARE; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; RETINA CONE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; METABOLISM; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HORSES; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 56649097247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003711     Document Type: Article

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