ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2017
Chromatic clocks: Color opponency in non-image-forming visual function.
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- Minimal Mimics and Maps of Natural Light for Mammals.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Simulated natural daylight and twilight modulate activity and light sampling behaviour in mice.BMC biology · 2026Article
- Brain White Matter Changes in Non-demented Individuals with Color Discrimination Deficits and Their Association with Cognitive Impairment: A NODDI Study.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Article
- Broadband Long Wavelength Light Promotes Myopic Eye Growth and Alters Retinal Responses to Light Offset in Chick.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Beyond vision: effects of light on the circadian clock and mood-related behaviours.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2025Review
- Vision guides the twilight search for oviposition sites of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Light sampling behaviour regulates circadian entrainment in mice.BMC biology · 2024Article
- Cone-Opponent Ganglion Cells in the Primate Fovea Tuned to Noncardinal Color Directions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Recommendations for measuring and standardizing light for laboratory mammals to improve welfare and reproducibility in animal research.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Effects of calibrated blue-yellow changes in light on the human circadian clock.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Preservation of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells (ipRGCs) in Late Adult Mice: Implications as a Potential Biomarker for Early Onset Ocular Degenerative Diseases.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2024Article
- Enjoying art: an evolutionary perspective on the esthetic experience from emotion elicitors.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Colour opponency is widespread across the mouse subcortical visual system and differentially targets GABAergic and non-GABAergic neurons.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Circadian rhythm entrainment of the jewel wasp,Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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- Extensive cone-dependent spectral opponency within a discrete zone of the lateral geniculate nucleus supporting mouse color vision.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Long-Wavelength-Filtered Light Transiently Inhibits Negative Lens-Induced Axial Eye Growth in the Chick Myopia Model.Translational vision science & technology · 2021Article
- Does a Red House Affect Rhythms in Mice with a Corrupted Circadian System?International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Image-Forming Visual Basis of Empathy for Pain in Mice.Neuroscience bulletin · 2020Article
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Abstract
During dusk and dawn, the ambient illumination undergoes drastic changes in irradiance (or intensity) and spectrum (or color). While the former is a well-studied factor in synchronizing behavior and physiology to the earth's 24-h rotation, color sensitivity in the regulation of circadian rhythms has not been systematically studied. Drawing on the concept of color opponency, a well-known property of image-forming vision in many vertebrates (including humans), we consider how the spectral shifts during twilight are encoded by a color-opponent sensory system for non-image-forming (NIF) visual functions, including phase shifting and melatonin suppression. We review electrophysiological evidence for color sensitivity in the pineal/parietal organs of fish, amphibians and reptiles, color coding in neurons in the circadian pacemaker in mice as well as sporadic evidence for color sensitivity in NIF visual functions in birds and mammals. Together, these studies suggest that color opponency may be an important modulator of light-driven physiological and behavioral responses.
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