Illuminating the function and evolution of iridescence

该项目旨在揭示动态颜色信号如何通过空间和时间连接视觉信息的生产，传输和感知来实现有效的沟通。通过整合行为，生理和光学的创新分析，它将提供对信息如何在现实世界条件下编码和流体交换的原始见解，并产生用于询问动物主观视觉世界的新工具。这项工作有望有利于我们了解如何沟通的普遍过程中驱动环境变化的适应，具有显着的范围为生物启发的解决方案，包括人类的视觉和有效的信息处理的当代问题。

This project seeks to reveal how dynamic colour signals enable effective communication by connecting the production, transmission, and perception of visual information through space and time. By integrating innovative analyses of behaviour, physiology, and optics, it will offer original insight into how information is encoded and fluidly exchanged under real-world conditions, and produce new tools for interrogating the subjective visual world of animals. This work promises benefits to our understanding of how the universal process of communication drives adaptation amidst environmental change, with significant scope for bio-inspired solutions to contemporary problems of vision and efficient information processing, including among humans.