ReviewDie Naturwissenschaften2018
Polarisation vision: overcoming challenges of working with a property of light we barely see.
Review in Die Naturwissenschaften, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 30 papers.
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30 citing papers in PubMed.
- Transmission through muscle tissue shapes polarization signals during cuttlefish courtship.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- 3D-Printed Components for Cost-Effective Polarisation Sensing of Terahertz Radiation.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Two Decapod Crustaceans,Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Polarization and reflectance are linked to climate, size and mechanistic constraints in a group of scarab beetles.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Fiddler crabs (Afruca tangeri) detect second-order motion in both intensity and polarization.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Measuring the visual angle of polarization-related entoptic phenomena using structured light.Biomedical optics express · 2024Article
- Light pollution of freshwater ecosystems: principles, ecological impacts and remedies.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Polarization vision in terrestrial hermit crabs.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Imaging-based intelligent spectrometer on a plasmonic rainbow chip.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Imaging nanoscale axial dynamics at the basal plasma membrane.The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology · 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
- The interplay of directional information provided by unpolarised and polarised light in the heading direction network of the diurnal dung beetle Kheper lamarcki.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Hoverflies use a time-compensated sun compass to orientate during autumn migration.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- The Effect of Age-Related Macular Degeneration on Polarization Pattern Perception.Translational vision science & technology · 2021Article
- 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
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- Foraging trip duration of honeybee increases during a poor air quality episode and the increase persists thereafter.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- The Clinical Application of Polarization Pattern Perception.Translational vision science & technology · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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7 authors.
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Abstract
In recent years, the study of polarisation vision in animals has seen numerous breakthroughs, not just in terms of what is known about the function of this sensory ability, but also in the experimental methods by which polarisation can be controlled, presented and measured. Once thought to be limited to only a few animal species, polarisation sensitivity is now known to be widespread across many taxonomic groups, and advances in experimental techniques are, in part, responsible for these discoveries. Nevertheless, its study remains challenging, perhaps because of our own poor sensitivity to the polarisation of light, but equally as a result of the slow spread of new practices and methodological innovations within the field. In this review, we introduce the most important steps in designing and calibrating polarised stimuli, within the broader context of areas of current research and the applications of new techniques to key questions. Our aim is to provide a constructive guide to help researchers, particularly those with no background in the physics of polarisation, to design robust experiments that are free from confounding factors.
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