ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2014
Polarization distance: a framework for modelling object detection by polarization vision systems.
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- Transmission through muscle tissue shapes polarization signals during cuttlefish courtship.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Behavioural evidence of spectral opponent processing in the visual system of stomatopod crustaceans.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Fiddler crabs (Afruca tangeri) detect second-order motion in both intensity and polarization.Communications biology · 2024Article
- A hypothesis for robust polarization vision: an example from the Australian imperial blue butterfly, Jalmenus evagoras.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Polarization vision mitigates visual noise from flickering light underwater.Science advances · 2022Article
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- Thresholds of polarization vision in octopuses.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Polarization contrasts and their effect on the gaze stabilization of crustaceans.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Spatial Contrast Sensitivity to Polarization and Luminance in Octopus.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Polarization of foliar reflectance: novel host plant cue for insect herbivores.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Parallel processing of polarization and intensity information in fiddler crab vision.Science advances · 2019Article
- Compound eyes of the small white butterfly Pieris rapae have three distinct classes of red photoreceptors.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
- Polarisation vision: overcoming challenges of working with a property of light we barely see.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2018Review
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- Can invertebrates see the e-vector of polarization as a separate modality of light?The Journal of experimental biology · 2016Review
- Dynamic polarization vision in mantis shrimps.Nature communications · 2016Article
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Abstract
The discrimination of polarized light is widespread in the natural world. Its use for specific, large-field tasks, such as navigation and the detection of water bodies, has been well documented. Some species of cephalopod and crustacean have polarization receptors distributed across the whole visual field and are thought to use polarized light cues for object detection. Both object-based polarization vision systems and large field detectors rely, at least initially, on an orthogonal, two-channel receptor organization. This may increase to three-directional analysis at subsequent interneuronal levels. In object-based and some of the large-field tasks, the dominant e-vector detection axes are often aligned (through eye, head and body stabilization mechanisms) horizontally and vertically relative to the outside world. We develop Bernard and Wehner's 1977 model of polarization receptor dynamics to apply it to the detection and discrimination of polarized objects against differently polarized backgrounds. We propose a measure of 'polarization distance' (roughly analogous to 'colour distance') for estimating the discriminability of objects in polarized light, and conclude that horizontal/vertical arrays are optimally designed for detecting differences in the degree, and not the e-vector axis, of polarized light under natural conditions.
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