Colour vision articles within Nature Communications

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    | Open Access

    Whether end-spectral bias for red and blue in the visual cortex inherits from the pre-cortical stage or emerges within V1 remains incompletely understood. Here, the authors revealed a feedforward mechanism of end-spectral bias which is mainly transmitted through parvocellular pathway.

    • Yujie Wu
    • , Minghui Zhao
    •  & Dajun Xing

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    | Open Access

    Vision in mosquitoes plays a critical but understudied role in their attraction to hosts. Here, the authors show that encounter with an attractive odor gates the mosquito attraction to specific colors, especially the long wavelengths reflected from human skin. Filtering the long wavelengths reflected from the human skin or knocking-out the ability for the mosquito to detect the wavelengths, suppressed their attraction. This work transforms our understanding of mosquito vision from the conventional view that vision does little in mediating mosquito-host interactions, to the recognition that vision plays a critical role.

    • Diego Alonso San Alberto
    • , Claire Rusch
    •  & Jeffrey A. Riffell

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    | Open Access

    Hue (e.g. red, blue) and luminance polarity (light/dark) are basic visual features. This paper shows that the brain has both joint and separable representations of these features, and extracts hue approximately 20 milliseconds later, with a more sustained representation.

    • Katherine L. Hermann
    • , Shridhar R. Singh
    •  & Bevil R. Conway

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    | Open Access

    Stimulus feature maps are found in primary visual cortex of many species. Here the authors show color maps in trichromatic primates containing segregated ensembles of neurons with distinct chromatic signatures that associate with cortical modules known as blobs.

    • Soumya Chatterjee
    • , Kenichi Ohki
    •  & R. Clay Reid

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    | Open Access

    What is the function of color vision? Here, the authors show that when retinal mechanisms of color are impaired, memory has a paradoxical impact on color appearance that is selective for faces, providing evidence that color contributes to face encoding and social communication.

    • Maryam Hasantash
    • , Rosa Lafer-Sousa
    •  & Bevil R. Conway

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    | Open Access

    The utility of UV vision for visualizing habitat structure is poorly known. Here, the authors use optical models and multispectral imaging to show that UV vision reveals sharp visual contrasts between leaf surfaces, potentially an advantage in navigating forest environments.

    • Cynthia Tedore
    •  & Dan-Eric Nilsson

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    | Open Access

    Neurons in the inferotemporal cortex (IT) encode object identity; however, how object color is represented here is not well understood. Here the authors report that neurons from three color patches in macaque IT encode significant information regarding the hue and shape of objects in a hierarchical manner.

    • Le Chang
    • , Pinglei Bao
    •  & Doris Y. Tsao

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    The evolution of the visual system in vertebrates remains poorly understood. Here, the authors show well-preserved rod and cone photoreceptors in a Upper Carboniferous fossilized fish, suggesting that colour vision has evolved in fish at least 300 Myr ago.

    • Gengo Tanaka
    • , Andrew R. Parker
    •  & Haruyoshi Maeda

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