ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Improved color constancy in honey bees enabled by parallel visual projections from dorsal ocelli.
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- The visual system of a nocturnal long-distance migrant, the Australian Bogong moth.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- A comprehensive characterization of opsin distribution across the visual system in the three castes of the honeybee.iScience · 2025Article
- Parallel motion vision pathways in the brain of a tropical bee.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Einstein, von Frisch and the honeybee: a historical letter comes to light.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2021Review
- Psychophysics of the hoverfly: categorical or continuous color discrimination?Current zoology · 2019Article
- The role of ocelli in cockroach optomotor performance.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Article
- The path to colour discrimination is S-shaped: behaviour determines the interpretation of colour models.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
How can a pollinator, like the honey bee, perceive the same colors on visited flowers, despite continuous and rapid changes in ambient illumination and background color? A hundred years ago, von Kries proposed an elegant solution to this problem, color constancy, which is currently incorporated in many imaging and technological applications. However, empirical evidence on how this method can operate on animal brains remains tenuous. Our mathematical modeling proposes that the observed spectral tuning of simple ocellar photoreceptors in the honey bee allows for the necessary input for an optimal color constancy solution to most natural light environments. The model is fully supported by our detailed description of a neural pathway allowing for the integration of signals originating from the ocellar photoreceptors to the information processing regions in the bee brain. These findings reveal a neural implementation to the classic color constancy problem that can be easily translated into artificial color imaging systems.
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