Vision in Cephalopods

• Main Author: Daniel Colaco Osorio (auth)
• Other Authors: Frederike Diana Hanke (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Physiology; visual system; cuttlefish; visual ecology; visually guided locomotion; MRI; octopus; optic lobes; eye development; camouflage; visual cognition
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Cephalopods usually have large and mobile eyes with which they constantly scan their environment. The eyes of cephalopods are single-chamber eyes which show resemblance to vertebrate eyes. However there are marked differences such as the cephalopod eye having an everted retina instead of an inverted...