Visual Sensitivity: Significant Within-Species Variations in a Nonhuman Primate
- 29 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 197 (4302) , 499-500
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.406676
Abstract
Among squirrel monkeys ( Saimiri sciureus ) there are significant sex-related differences in visual sensitivity. As measured behaviorally in an increment-threshold task, a sample of males was found to be substantially less sensitive to long-wavelength (640-nanometer) light than a group of females tested in the same way, although the two groups showed no significant differences in sensitivity to a middle-wavelength (540-nanometer) light. The two groups also differed on a test designed to measure the effects of chromatic adaptation.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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