Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0878968

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0878968

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Colour visual processing by honeybees: solutions for decision making in complex environments. Honeybees are a cost and time efficient animal model for testing how information is processed in a miniature brain containing less than 0.01% of the number of cells found in a human brain. Bees use their ultraviolet, blue and green colour vision to efficiently find flowers in complex environments. This project investigates how colour information is processed by bees, and develops computer models to evaluate how novel solutions might be applicable for robotic vision. The model also allows for testing of how environmental factors, like changes in climate, might affect the way in which bees choose to visit certain flower types, including plants that have important environmental and economic impacts.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2008

End Date: 31-12-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $586,530.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Comparative Physiology | Sensory Systems | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance | Neurosciences

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Air Force | Information services not elsewhere classified | Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Air Force | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Comparative Physiology | Information services not elsewhere classified | Neurosciences | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance | Sensory Systems

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