Visual discrimination: Seeing the third quality of light

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 light, in much the same way we see colour.

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Published in:Current biology 1999-07, Vol.9 (14), p.R535-R537
Main Authors: Nilsson, Dan-E, Warrant, Eric J
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Language:English
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Animals
Behavior, Animal - physiology
Brackish
Cephalopoda
Color Perception - physiology
Contrast Sensitivity - physiology
Decapoda (Crustacea) - physiology
Electricity
Freshwater
Light
Marine
Neuroscience
Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate - physiology
Space life sciences
Stomatopoda
Vision, Ocular - physiology
Visual Perception - physiology
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Color Perception - physiology
Contrast Sensitivity - physiology
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Electricity
Freshwater
Light
Marine
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