ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2011
Behavioural relevance of polarization sensitivity as a target detection mechanism in cephalopods and fishes.
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- The neural basis of visual processing and behavior in cephalopods.Current biology : CB · 2023Review
- Polarization vision mitigates visual noise from flickering light underwater.Science advances · 2022Article
- Generating spatiotemporal patterns of linearly polarised light at high frame rates for insect vision research.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
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- Polarization contrasts and their effect on the gaze stabilization of crustaceans.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Thresholds of polarization vision in octopuses.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Reversal of a Spatial Discrimination Task in the Common OctopusFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Editorial: Vision in Cephalopods: Part II.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Finding a signal hidden among noise: how can predators overcome camouflage strategies?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Spatial Contrast Sensitivity to Polarization and Luminance in Octopus.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Embracing Their Prey at That Dark Hour: Common Cuttlefish (Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Dynamic Courtship Signals and Mate Preferences inFrontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Swimming behaviour tunes fish polarization vision to double prey sighting distance.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- A vertebrate retina with segregated colour and polarization sensitivity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Can invertebrates see the e-vector of polarization as a separate modality of light?The Journal of experimental biology · 2016Review
- Perceiving polarization with the naked eye: characterization of human polarization sensitivity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Polarization distance: a framework for modelling object detection by polarization vision systems.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
- Are harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) able to perceive and use polarised light?Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2013Article
- Effects of stimuli shape and polarization in evoking deimatic patterns in the European cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, under varying turbidity conditions.Invertebrate neuroscience : IN · 2013Article
- Corneal microprojections in coleoid cephalopods.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2012Article
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Abstract
Aquatic habitats are rich in polarized patterns that could provide valuable information about the environment to an animal with a visual system sensitive to polarization of light. Both cephalopods and fishes have been shown to behaviourally respond to polarized light cues, suggesting that polarization sensitivity (PS) may play a role in improving target detection and/or navigation/orientation. However, while there is general agreement concerning the presence of PS in cephalopods and some fish species, its functional significance remains uncertain. Testing the role of PS in predator or prey detection seems an excellent paradigm with which to study the contribution of PS to the sensory assets of both groups, because such behaviours are critical to survival. We developed a novel experimental set-up to deliver computer-generated, controllable, polarized stimuli to free-swimming cephalopods and fishes with which we tested the behavioural relevance of PS using stimuli that evoke innate responses (such as an escape response from a looming stimulus and a pursuing behaviour of a small prey-like stimulus). We report consistent responses of cephalopods to looming stimuli presented in polarization and luminance contrast; however, none of the fishes tested responded to either the looming or the prey-like stimuli when presented in polarization contrast.
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