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Abstract
Honeybees are an important model species for understanding animal vision as free-flying individuals can be easily trained by researchers to collect nutrition from novel visual stimuli and thus learn visual tasks. A leading question in animal vision is whether it is possible to perceive all information within a scene, or if only elemental cues are perceived driven by the visual system and supporting neural mechanisms. In human vision we often process the global content of a scene, and prefer such information to local elemental features. Here we discuss recent evidence from studies on honeybees which demonstrate a preference for global information. We explore insights from imaging studies suggesting why a global preference may be important for foraging in natural environments where a holistic representation of elemental factors is advantageous. Thus we aim to provide a brief new insight into how animal vision may perceive the complex world in which we must all operate and suggest further ways to test this.
Recommended Citation
Dyer, Adrian G.; Howard, Scarlett R.; and Garcia, Jair E., Through the Eyes of a Bee: Seeing the World as a Whole, Animal Studies Journal, 5(1), 2016, 97-109.Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol5/iss1/7
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