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Generating spatiotemporal patterns of linearly polarised light at high frame rates for insect vision research.


ABSTRACT: Polarisation vision is commonplace among invertebrates; however, most experiments focus on determining behavioural and/or neurophysiological responses to static polarised light sources rather than moving patterns of polarised light. To address the latter, we designed a polarisation stimulation device based on superimposing polarised and non-polarised images from two projectors, which can display moving patterns at frame rates exceeding invertebrate flicker fusion frequencies. A linear polariser fitted to one projector enables moving patterns of polarised light to be displayed, whilst the other projector contributes arbitrary intensities of non-polarised light to yield moving patterns with a defined polarisation and intensity contrast. To test the device, we measured receptive fields of polarisation-sensitive Argynnis paphia butterfly photoreceptors for both non-polarised and polarised light. We then measured local motion sensitivities of the optic flow-sensitive lobula plate tangential cell H1 in Calliphora vicina blowflies under both polarised and non-polarised light, finding no polarisation sensitivity in this neuron.

SUBMITTER: Supple JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9339910 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Generating spatiotemporal patterns of linearly polarised light at high frame rates for insect vision research.

Supple Jack A JA   Varennes-Phillit Léandre L   Gajjar-Reid Dexter D   Cerkvenik Uroš U   Belušič Gregor G   Krapp Holger G HG  

The Journal of experimental biology 20220707 13


Polarisation vision is commonplace among invertebrates; however, most experiments focus on determining behavioural and/or neurophysiological responses to static polarised light sources rather than moving patterns of polarised light. To address the latter, we designed a polarisation stimulation device based on superimposing polarised and non-polarised images from two projectors, which can display moving patterns at frame rates exceeding invertebrate flicker fusion frequencies. A linear polariser  ...[more]

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