Food search through the eyes of a monkey: A functional substitution approach for assessing the ecology of primate color vision

Vision Research

Volumn 86, Issue , 2013, Pages 87-96

  Melin, A D ^a   Kline, D W ^a   Hickey, C M ^a   Fedigan, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capuchin; Costa Rica; Foraging ecology; Photopigments; Platyrrhine; Polymorphic trichromacy

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CEBUS CAPUCINUS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT COLOR; FRUIT RIPENING; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEOTROPICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEBUS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOOD; FRUIT; PHENOTYPE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84878380143     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2013.04.013     Document Type: Article

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