Early color deprivation and subsequent color vision in a dichromatic monkey.
A squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) was reared for the first 4 months of life in a dim, colorless environment. Following an additional 10 months of normal visual experience, tests of color vision and spectral sensitivity were run on this animal and a control subject. The results suggest that the adult expression of dichromatic color vision does not depend on color experience during the first 4 months of life.
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D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D012453:Saimiri; D012683:Sensory Deprivation / Q000502:physiology*; D013053:Spectrophotometry