Polarisationish, speaking the language and making the movie

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Event Abstract Back to Event Polarisationish, speaking the language and making the movie Justin Marshall1*, Thomas Cronin2, Viktor Gruev3, Nicholas W. Roberts4, Sonke Johnsen5, Tsyr-Huei Chiou1, 6, Shelby E. Temple1, 4 and Martin J. How1 1 The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute, Australia 2 University of Maryland Baltimore County, The Department of Biological Sciences, United States 3 Washington University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United States 4 University of Bristol, Biological Sciences, United Kingdom 5 Duke University, Biological Sciences, United States 6 National Cheng Kung University, Life Sciences, Taiwan Colours and colour vision for communication and camouflage are things we are familiar with. Polarisation vision research has mostly focussed on, navigation, ‘matched filters’ and taxes that are most like the lower ‘grades’ of colour vision in which innate or fixed actions are the end result. New(ish) results in both aquatic and terrestrial habitats are now revealing a rich language of polarisation signalling, communication and possibly camouflage that might elevate the use of polarised light to something closer to colour? The additional contrast or information that polarised light might supply is certainly available to many invertebrates and even some vertebrates. Foraging, mate choice, agonistic conflicts, camouflage and aposematism seem rich hunting grounds for the interested behavioural ecologist, but because we don’t see polarisation, extra care is needed in gathering data, making observations and interpreting results. This presentation sets out some ideas and new methods to both image (and hunt for) polarisation in the environment and quantify behaviours relative to polarised signals. We present evidence for polarisation discrimination an order of magnitude better than previously expected in cephalopods and crustaceans and examine the ‘spectrum’ of elliptically polarised messaging in stomatopods. Results from a new generation of bio-inspired, nanofabricated, very cool polarisation video cameras are also presented to explore some of the discoveries and pitfalls of this expanding area of visual neuroscience. Figure 1 Acknowledgements Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development Airforce Office of Scientific Research Dr Willard Larkin for continued support and constructive ideas Keywords: Polarisation, Visual Neuroscience, Visual ecology, bio-inspired nanotechnology, Behavioural Ecology Conference: International Conference on Invertebrate Vision, Fjälkinge, Sweden, 1 Aug - 8 Aug, 2013. Presentation Type: Oral presentation preferred Topic: Colour and polarisation vision Citation: Marshall J, Cronin T, Gruev V, Roberts NW, Johnsen S, Chiou T, Temple SE and How MJ (2019). Polarisationish, speaking the language and making the movie. Front. Physiol. Conference Abstract: International Conference on Invertebrate Vision. doi: 10.3389/conf.fphys.2013.25.00071 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 27 Feb 2013; Published Online: 09 Dec 2019. * Correspondence: Prof. Justin Marshall, The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia, justin.marshall@uq.edu.au Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Justin Marshall Thomas Cronin Viktor Gruev Nicholas W Roberts Sonke Johnsen Tsyr-Huei Chiou Shelby E Temple Martin J How Google Justin Marshall Thomas Cronin Viktor Gruev Nicholas W Roberts Sonke Johnsen Tsyr-Huei Chiou Shelby E Temple Martin J How Google Scholar Justin Marshall Thomas Cronin Viktor Gruev Nicholas W Roberts Sonke Johnsen Tsyr-Huei Chiou Shelby E Temple Martin J How PubMed Justin Marshall Thomas Cronin Viktor Gruev Nicholas W Roberts Sonke Johnsen Tsyr-Huei Chiou Shelby E Temple Martin J How Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.