ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Assembling the building blocks of advanced color and polarization vision
The natural lightscape is awash in a wealth of visual information that animal eyes have evolved to interpret and exploit. Often, they possess visual capabilities beyond our own, including perception of additional colors (wavelengths) or the polarization of light (the orientation of light waves - an entirely separate visual modality we have no sensitivity to). However, little is known about how these advanced visual systems evolved. I hypothesize that they emerged from segregated information channels tuned to distinct stimuli in certain regions of the light environment that control specific behaviors. My proposal aims to explore how new color and polarization circuits formed and integrated…
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