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Dr
University of Manchester
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Schedule
Monday, July 19, 2021
3:00 PM Europe/London
Recording provided by the organiser.
Domain
Host
Sussex Visions
Duration
70 minutes
Colour vision plays important roles in regulating animal behaviour, yet understanding of how such information is processed in the brain is still incomplete. Here I discuss our work addressing this issue in mice where, despite aspects of retinal organisation that might suggest limited capacity for colour vision, we find evidence of extensive cone-dependent spectral opponency across subcortical visual centres. In particular, our data both reveals important contributions of such colour signals to non-image-forming functions (regulation of the circadian system) but also indicate surprisingly sophisticated support for more conventional aspects of colour vision.
Timothy Brown
Dr
University of Manchester
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