Pressures for survival make sensory circuits adapted to a species' natural habitat and its
behavioral challenges. Thus, to advance our understanding of the visual system, it is …

Color vision is essential for an animal's survival. It starts in the retina, where signals from
different photoreceptor types are locally compared by neural circuits. Mice, like most …

Mammalian visual behaviors, as well as responses in the neural systems underlying these
behaviors, are driven by luminance and color contrast. With constantly improving tools for …

Animal eyes have evolved to process behaviorally important visual information, but how
retinas deal with statistical asymmetries in visual space remains poorly understood. Using …

For color vision, retinal circuits separate information about intensity and wavelength. In
vertebrates that use the full complement of four “ancestral” cone types, the nature and …

Understanding the neural basis of visual perception is a long-standing fundamental goal of
neuroscience. Historically, most vision studies were carried out on humans, macaques and …

For efficient coding, sensory systems need to adapt to the distribution of signals to which
they are exposed. In vision, natural scenes above and below the horizon differ in the …

In the eye, the function of same-type photoreceptors must be regionally adjusted to process
a highly asymmetrical natural visual world. Here, we show that UV cones in the larval …

Colors often appear to differ in arbitrary ways among related species. However, a fraction of
color diversity may be explained because some signals are more easily perceived in one …

Visual perception scales with changes in the visual stimulus, or contrast, irrespective of
background illumination. However, visual perception is challenged when adaptation is not …