RESEARCH ARTICLE
Do Hummingbirds See in Ultraviolet?
M Curé*, 1, A.G Palacios2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 3
First Page: 9
Last Page: 12
Publisher Id: TOMINFOJ-3-9
DOI: 10.2174/1874431100903010009
Article History:
Received Date: 10/12/2008Revision Received Date: 20/1/2009
Acceptance Date: 15/2/2009
Electronic publication date: 02/4/2009
Collection year: 2009
© Curé and Palacios; Licensee Bentham Open.
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Abstract
We present a numerical model to fit the electroretinogram (ERG), a gross evoked eye visual potential, that originate in the retina through photons absorption by photoreceptors and then involve the contribution form others retinal neurons. We use the ERG measured in a hummingbird, to evaluate the most likely retinal mechanism - cones visual pigments and oil-droplets - that participate in their high dimensional tetra or pentachromatic color hyperspace. The model - a nonlinear fit - appears to be a very useful tool to predict the underlying contribution visual mechanism for a variety of retinal preparation.
Keywords: Color vision, electroretinogram, non lineal model.
