Event:

Cephalopods like cuttlefish and octopus transform visual scene information into full-body camouflage patterns. This process begins with a camera-type eye not unlike our own, and ends with up to a million ’pixels’, directly controlled by motor neurons, recapitulating salient textures of the environment on the animal’s skin. I will present connectomics of the ’deep retina’ of the optic lobe, a region performing the first stages of visual processing, and neural dynamics of the deep optic lobe during camouflage that may direct camouflage patterning.