World Wide Neuro | Sussex Vision Series - 19/07/2021 - Timothy Brown
Channel: BadenLab
Date: 2021-07-19

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Today, we are delighted to host Dr. Timothy Brown from Manchester University

Title:
Colour processing in the mouse brain for vision and beyond

Colour vision plays important roles in regulating animal behaviour, yet understanding of how such information is processed in the brain is still incomplete. Here I discuss our work addressing this issue in mice where, despite aspects of retinal organisation that might suggest limited capacity for colour vision, we find evidence of extensive cone-dependent spectral opponency across subcortical visual centres. In particular, our data both reveals important contributions of such colour signals to non-image-forming functions (regulation of the circadian system) but also indicate surprisingly sophisticated support for more conventional aspects of colour vision.