NDLI: Seeing the light: Illumination as a contextual cue to color choice behavior in bumblebees

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Lotto, R. Beau Lars, Chittka
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	The principal challenge faced by any color vision system is to contend with the inherent ambiguity of stimulus information, which represents the interaction between multiple attributes of the world (e.g., object reflectance and illumination). How natural systems deal with this problem is not known, although traditional hypotheses are predicated on the idea that vision represents object reflectance accurately by discounting early in processing the conflating effects of illumination. Here, we test the merits of this general supposition by confronting bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) with a color discrimination task that can be solved only if information about the illuminant is not discounted but maintained in processing and thus available to higher-order learned behavior. We show that bees correctly use the intensity and chromaticity of illumination as a contextual cue to guide them to different target colors. In fact, we trained bees to choose opposite, rather than most similar, target colors after an illumination change. This performance cannot be explained with a simple color-constancy mechanism that discounts illumination. Further tests show that bees do not use a simple assessment of the overhead illumination, but that they assess the spectral relationships between a floral target and its background. These results demonstrate that bees can be color-constant without discounting the illuminant; that, in fact, they can use information about the illuminant itself as a salient source of information.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500681102
Ending Page	3856
Page Count	5
Starting Page	3852
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00278424
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	10
Volume Number	102
Language	English
Publisher	National Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	2005-03-08
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	National Academy of Sciences
Subject Keyword	General Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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