Colour vision articles within Nature

Featured

• Article | 28 September 2022

  State-dependent pupil dilation rapidly shifts visual feature selectivity

  Computational modelling and functional imaging of awake, active mice show that behaviour directly changes neuronal tuning in the visual cortex through pupil dilation.

  • Katrin Franke
  • , Konstantin F. Willeke
  •  & Andreas S. Tolias

• Letter | 18 September 2019

  Daytime colour preference in Drosophila depends on the circadian clock and TRP channels

  Innate colour preference in adult fruit flies changes with the time of day, and depends on rhodopsins 1 and 7, TRP channels and the circadian clock.

  • Stanislav Lazopulo
  • , Andrey Lazopulo
  •  & Sheyum Syed

• Letter | 06 April 2016

  A neuronal circuit for colour vision based on rod–cone opponency

  Colour vision is thought to rely on the comparison of signals from cone cells in the retina, this paper identifies a class of mouse retinal ganglion cells (J-RGC) that integrates an OFF signal from ultraviolet-sensitive cones with an ON signal from green-sensitive rods, producing a colour-opponent channel that may enable animals to detect urine territory marks; the underlying circuit may also explain why humans experience a blue shift in night-time vision.

  • Maximilian Joesch
  •  & Markus Meister

• Research Highlights | 11 January 2012

  Colour vision aids the hunt

• News & Views | 06 October 2010

  Neurons show their true colours

  How do we tell red from green? Work on the primate retina shows how neural circuitry combines signals from individual cone photoreceptor cells to provide the basic building blocks for colour vision. See Article p.673

  • Jonathan B. Demb
  •  & David H. Brainard