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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT190100313
Funding Status
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Funded Activity Summary
‘Super-human’ colour vision: how does it improve animal visual performance? 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.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 12-2019
End Date: 12-2023
Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships
Funding Amount: $895,704.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Animal Behaviour | Sensory Systems | Neurosciences
