Task-dependent vision in the marine environment

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• Martin How; University of Bristol, UK
• Tuesday 17 October 2023, 16:00-17:00
• Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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Animals face continuous trade-offs when sensing their environment, processing sensory information, and transforming sensory inputs into behavioural outputs. These trade-offs often vary depending on the behavioural context, with some behaviours requiring high speed and low information content – such as gaze stabilisation – while others can take place over longer timescales but integrate more sensory channels – e.g. object identification and quality assessment. Many marine and intertidal species have access to intensity, colour and polarization-based visual information, but not all are used for every task. In this seminar, I will explore how crabs and cuttlefish deploy their visual systems to optimise visual processing and cope with visual problems such as dynamic illumination.

This talk is part of the Zoology Departmental Seminar Series series.

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