Sensory Systems

Recommended: Stevens, Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution (2013); Catania, Great Adaptations (2020).

Scheduled readings: Witman (1993), Chlamydomonas phototaxis; Wakabayashi et al. (2011), Reduction-oxidation poise regulates the sign of phototaxis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Dawkins (1996), Climbing Mount Improbable, chapter 5; Nagata et al. (2012), Depth perception from image defocus in a jumping spider; Stubbs and Stubbs (2016), Spectral discrimination in color blind animals via chromatic aberration and pupil shape; Knudsen and Konishi (1979), Mechanisms of sound localization in the barn owl; Rossel and Wehner (1986), Polarization vision in bees.