What does the honeybee see? And how do we know? : a critique of scientific reason /

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An account of what bees actually detect with their eyes. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or put together features to form objects. Bees detect motion but have no perception of what it is that moves, and certainly they do...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Horridge, G. Adrian
Corporate Author: ANU E Press
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Honeybee.
Bees.
Insects.
Vision.
Robot vision.
Bees
Insecta
Vision, Ocular
Abeille.
Abeilles.
Insectes.
Vision artificielle (Robotique)
Apis mellifera (species)
Apoidea (superfamily)
sight (sense)
Insecta (class)
Mathematics and science.
Science: general issues.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Entomology.
Honeybee
Insects
Robot vision
Vision
Bee
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Early work by the giants
  • Theories of scientific progress: help or hindrance?
  • Research techniques and ideas, 1950 on
  • Perception of pattern, from 1950 on
  • The retina, sensitivity and resolution
  • Processing and colour vision
  • Piloting: the visual control of flight
  • The route to the goal, and back again
  • Feature detectors and cues
  • Recognition of the goal
  • Do bees see shapes?
  • Generalisation and cognitive abilities in bee vision
  • Afterthoughts
  • Summary of the model of bees' visual processing.

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