Cephalopod Vision Workshop

Cephalopod Vision Workshop – 10 October 2014 – Napoli, Italy

CephsInAction will create opportunities to mix ‘special scientific events’ dedicated to different topics on basic and applied biology, with FA1301 COST Action WGs meetings. These will be a sort of satellite events to meetings planned to occur in the workplan of our Action.

The ‘Cephalopod Vision Workshop’ marks the October 2014 CephsInAction@Naples meeting

We share much physiology in common, but our eyes and brains have evolved independently from an ancestor that surely had no more than rudimentary photosensitive eye-spots.

Have developmental processes, the physics of light and the need to interpret and respond to the visual world led to similarities to vertebrates? What can we learn from the striking differences between cephalopods and vertebrates, in their life-histories, and their control of movement and appearance?

Research on vision and visual behaviour of cephalopods is flourishing, and this meeting gives us an opportunity to discuss our recent work, and future plans.

Programme

– Eye development and visual function in cuttlefish embryo
Laure Bonnaud, France

– Characterization of visual receptive fields: a comparative approach
Ana Turchetti-Maia, Israel & Brazil

– Behavioral responses to pulses of light in the Longfin Inshore squid, Doryteuthis pealeii (Lesueur, 1821)
Stavros Hadjisolomou, USA

– Development of visually guided behavior in the cuttlefish
A.-S. Darmaillacq and L. Dickel, France

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– Are the eyes the “windows” of an animal? Research on cephalopod vision at the Stazione Zoologica (1883-1977)
Ariane Dröscher, Italy

– Visual and Spatial Reversal Learning in Octopus vulgaris Revived – Methodological Perspective
Frederike D. Hanke, Germany

– Cephalopod camouflage over a changing environment
Nadav Shashar, Israel

– Cuttlefish coloration, its characterization, control and role in camouflage
Daniel Osorio, UK

Open Discussion / Forecast Publication

Sylvia Anton – Frontiers concept and Research Topics

For further info and possibly useful info look at

– for an historical account on ‘Vision, and anatomy and physiology of the eye of cephalopods’

Provides an annotated bibliography on some aspects of research on cephs biology and physiology carried out at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn di Napoli (Italy) from 1873 to 1964 – contributed by Ariane Droesher (University of Bologna – Alma Mater & CephRes team)

– for a description on the eye of cephalopods see

Camera Eyes of Cephalopod s

Cephalopod Eye (from Wikipedia)

Programme

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Cephalopod Vision Workshop

Cephalopod Vision Workshop – 10 October 2014 – Napoli, Italy

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