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ArticleRoyal Society open science2017

A generalized equation for the calculation of receptor noise limited colour distances in

R C Clark, R D Santer, J S Brebner

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Exploiting colour space geometry for visual stimulus design across animals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  2. Genetic and plastic variation in opsin gene expression, light sensitivity, and female response to visual signals in the guppy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

R C ClarkSchool of Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK.
R D SanterInstitute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3FG, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8248-0532
J S BrebnerInstitute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3FG, UK.
Aberystwyth University · GBUniversity of Aberdeen · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Researchers must assess similarities and differences in colour from an animal's eye view when investigating hypotheses in ecology, evolution and behaviour. Nervous systems generate colour perceptions by comparing the responses of different spectral classes of photoreceptor through colour opponent mechanisms, and the performance of these mechanisms is limited by photoreceptor noise. Accordingly, the receptor noise limited (RNL) colour distance model of Vorobyev and Osorio (Vorobyev & Osorio 1998

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animal visionchromatic contrastcolour discriminationcolour perceptionphotoreceptor

Identifiers

PMID28989773
PMCPMC5627113
OpenAlexW2754094645

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