1. How could you test for the presence of color vision in a bee? Examining the retina...

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1. How could you test for the presence of color vision in a bee? Examining the retina does not help; invertebrate receptors resemble neither rods nor cones. It is possible to train bees to approach one visual stimulus and not another. The difficulty is that if you trained some bees to approach, say, a yellow card and not a green card, you do not know whether they solved the problem by color or by brightness. Because brightness is different from physical intensity, you cannot assume that two colors equally bright to humans are also equally bright to bees. How might you get around the problem of brightness to test color vision in bees?

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Biological Psychology

ISBN: 104344

9th Edition

Authors: James W. Kalat

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