Animal colour vision — behavioural tests and physiological concepts
By A. Kelber, M. Vorobyev, D. Osorio. Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2003
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Over a century ago workers such as J. Lubbock and K. von Frisch developed behavioural criteria for establishing that non‐human animals see colour. Many animals in most phyla have since then been shown to have colour vision. Colour is used for specific behaviours, such as phototaxis and object recognition, while other behaviours such as motion detection are colour blind. Having established the existence of colour vision, research focussed on the question of how many spectral types of photoreceptors are involved. Recently, data on photoreceptor spectral sensitivities have been combined with behavioural experiments and physiological models to study systematically the next logical question: ‘what neural interactions underlie colour vision ?‘This review gives an overview of the methods used to study animal colour vision, and discusses how quantitative modelling can suggest how photoreceptor signals are combined and compared to allow for the discrimination of biologically relevant stimuli.
Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems
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- A framework for analysing colour pattern geometry: adjacent colours (2012, background): “Visual models permit predictions about how different two colours need to be to allow discrimination (Kelber et al., 2003; Endler & Mielke, 2005); the critical value is one JND (just noticeable difference, Kelber et al.”
- Comparing colors using visual models (2018, background): “However, this ignores the multivariate nature of visual model data by failing to account for multiple comparisons and correlations among receptor catches (which are critical, since any n-receptor visual system can be represented in n − 1 dimensions; Kelber et al. 2003).”
- How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut (2011, background): “, hue and saturation) is analyzed only (Kelber et al. 2003; Cuthill 2006).”
- Flies and Flowers II: Floral Attractants and Rewards (2014, background): “Together, the two subsystems allow for a parallel processing of motion perception and colour vision (Kelber et al. 2003).”
- In the light of new greenhouse technologies: 2. Direct effects of artificial lighting on arthropods and integrated pest management in greenhouse crops (2011, neutral): “There is, however, deviation from this pattern (Brown et al., 1998; Briscoe & Chittka, 2001; Kelber, 2001; Kelber et al., 2003; Qiu & Arikawa, 2003; Döring & Chittka, 2007; Skorupski et al., 2007; Koshitaka et al., 2008).”
- Using digital photography to study animal coloration (2007, background): “One might also expect the values obtained for each of the three colour channels to be the same for each standard because greys fall on the achromatic locus of R = G = B (Kelber et al., 2003).”
- Color change and camouflage in juvenile shore crabs Carcinus maenas (2014, background): “Other crustaceans do also seem to have color vision (see Kelber et al., 2003).”
- Role of Anthocyanins in Plant Defence (2008, background): “Insects have up to five kinds of photoreceptors sensitive to different regions of the visible and UV spectrum (Kelber 2001; Kelber et al. 2003).”
- The biology of color (2017, background): “Even the common practice of modeling color as a geometric space or volume with a dimension matching the number of interacting photoreceptors types (33) may be an unwise assumption.”
- New World Monkeys and Color (2007, background): “” Others followed the theme, in the course adding a list of other potential advantages of color vision that might support its evolution (Jacobs 1993; Kelber et al. 2003; Mollon 1989; Vorobyev 2004).”
- pavo 2.0: new tools for the spectral and spatial analysis of colour in R (2018, background): “1 for both chromatic and achromatic receptors, and assume that noise is proportional to the Weber fraction and independent of the magnitude of receptor stimulation (reviewed in Kelber et al. ( 2003 ); Olsson et al. ( 2017 )).”