Shouldn't directional movement detection necessarily be "colour-blind"?
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Radio Frequency Identification and Motion-sensitive Video Efficiently Automate Recording of Unrewarded Choice Behavior by Bumblebees
Published on: November 15, 2014
Vision Research
|January 1, 1985
Abstract:
It is shown that a directionally-selective movement detector attains maximum sensitivity to movement only when it sacrifices colour information. This could explain the widespread occurrence of colour-blindness among movement-detecting systems.

