Chapter title |
Vision Made Easy: Cubozoans Can Advance Our Understanding of Systems-Level Visual Information Processing
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Chapter number | 27 |
Book title |
Marine Organisms as Model Systems in Biology and Medicine
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Published in |
Results and problems in cell differentiation, August 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-92486-1_27 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-992485-4, 978-3-31-992486-1
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Authors |
Jan Bielecki, Anders Garm |
Abstract |
Animals relying on vision as their main sensory modality reserve a large part of their central nervous system to appropriately navigate their environment. In general, neural involvement correlates to the complexity of the visual system and behavioural repertoire. In humans, one third of the available neural capacity supports our single-chambered general-purpose eyes, whereas animals with less elaborate visual systems need less computational power, and generally have smaller brains, and thereby lack in visual behaviour. As a consequence, both traditional model animals (mice, zebrafish, and flies) and more experimentally tractable animals (Hydra, Planaria, and C. elegans) cannot contribute to our understanding of systems-level visual information processing-a Goldilocks case of too big and too small.However, one animal, the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora, possesses a rather complex visual system, displays multiple visual behaviours, yet processes visual information by means of a relatively simple central nervous system. This-just right-model system could not only provide information on how visual stimuli are processed through distinct combinations of neural circuitry but also provide a processing algorithm for extracting specific information from a complex visual scene. |
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