Visual discrimination: Seeing the third quality of light

Authors
Nilsson, DE Warrant, EJ
Citation
De. Nilsson et Ej. Warrant, Visual discrimination: Seeing the third quality of light, CURR BIOL, 9(14), 1999, pp. R535-R537
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Experimental Biology
Journal title
CURRENT BIOLOGY
ISSN journal
09609822 → ACNP
Volume
9
Issue
14
Year of publication
1999
Pages
R535 - R537
Database
ISI
SICI code
0960-9822(19990715)9:14<R535:VDSTTQ>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Objects can differ in brightness and colour. At least that is what our own visual system tells us. It now seems that stomatopod shrimps, and possibly also cephalopod molluscs, can see the direction of the electric vector of l ight, in much the same way we see colour.