‘Super-human’ colour vision: how does it improve animal visual performance?

– 超人类 – 色觉：它如何改善动物的视觉表现？

• 批准号: FT190100313
• 负责人: A/Prof Karen Cheney
• 金额: $ 63.01万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2019-12-02 至 2023-12-02
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT190100313
• 关键词: Super; human; colour; vision; how

Colour vision enables animals to find food, attract mates and avoid predators. Many animals, including fish, birds and insects, have ‘super-human’ colour vision systems and process colour using 4 or 5 spectral channels, instead of our 3. Yet we do not know how information is combined across these different channels to achieve colour vision. This project will develop new technology to measure UV vision in a range of animal taxa, and show how animals with 4 or 5 spectral channels integrate or partition visual information to perceive colour. The Fellowship will provide new biological models for the development of next-generation multispectral cameras used in medical, military, security and remote sensing applications.

颜色视觉使动物能够寻找食物、吸引配偶和躲避捕食者。许多动物，包括鱼、鸟和昆虫，都有超人的色觉系统，并使用4到5个光谱通道来处理颜色，而不是我们的3个。然而，我们不知道信息是如何通过这些不同的通道组合起来实现色觉的。该项目将开发一种新技术来测量一系列动物分类中的紫外线视力，并展示具有4或5个光谱通道的动物如何整合或划分视觉信息来感知颜色。该研究基金将为下一代多光谱相机的开发提供新的生物模型，这些相机用于医疗、军事、安全和遥感应用。