Bird colour vision: Behavioural thresholds reveal receptor noise

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 184-193

  Olsson, Peter ^a   Lind, Olle ^a,b   Kelber, Almut ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animal behaviour; Bird vision; Gallus gallus; Psychophysics; Visual modelling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHICKEN; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGHT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHICKENS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 84964264780     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.111187     Document Type: Article

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