Visual interpolation for contour completion by the European cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and its use in dynamic camouflage

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1737, 2012, Pages 2386-2390

  Zylinski, Sarah ^a   Darmaillacq, Anne Sophie ^b   Shashar, Nadav ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cephalopod; Contour completion; Invertebrate vision; Non human visual perception; Occlusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; INVERTEBRATA; SEPIA OFFICINALIS; SEPIIDAE;

ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUTTLEFISH; FRANCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COLOR; FORM PERCEPTION; FRANCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEPIA; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84865592654     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0026     Document Type: Article

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