Spotting Fruit versus Picking Fruit as the Selective Advantage of Human Colour Vision

The spatiochromatic properties of the red–green dimension of human colour vision appear to be optimized for picking fruit in leaves at about arms' reach. However, other evidence suggests that the task of spotting fruit from a distance might be more important. This discrepancy may arise because...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aline Bompas, Grace Kendall, Petroc Sumner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-04-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/i0564