How gerbils orient in the light of the setting sun (LMU News)
Garbers et al. 2015, Journal of vision
26.01.2015
LMU NEWS (in English)
How gerbils orient in the light of the setting sun
A light brown remains light brown: For gerbils, the fur color of their conspecifics appears identical under different lighting conditions. The ability of color constancy in rodents has been demonstrated for the first time by Munich neurobiologists.
LMU NEWS (in German)
Wie Rennmäuse sich bei Lichtwechsel orientieren
Hellbraun bleibt hellbraun: Die Fellfarbe ihrer Artgenossen erscheint für Rennmäuse auch unter verschiedenen Lichtverhältnissen gleich. Damit weisen Münchner Neurobiologen erstmals die Fähigkeit der Farbkonstanz bei Nagetieren nach.
Journal of vision
Contextual processing of brightness and color in Mongolian gerbils
Research News: National Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience
How gerbils orient in the light of the setting sun
Munich neurobiologists have shown for the first time that gerbils possess the capacity of perceptual color constancy (January 2015).