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Ellis R. Loew     (WEB PAGE) erl1 @ cornell.edu T7-020 Vet. Research Tower      607-253-3484   [edit] Faculty Department: Biomedical Sciences Field: Neurobiology and Behavior; Physiology Keywords: Behavioral Ecology (2), Birds (4), Development (21), Evolution (5), Fish (12), Mathematical Modeling (14), Neuroethology (24), Vision (11) Neuroscience-related courses taught Instructor: BIOAP 311: Introductory Animal Physiology I work in the area of visual ecology dealing with the question, "why do animals have the color vision systems they do?" The obvious evolutionary requirement is that the visual system be adapted for the visual tasks it must perform in the environment in which the animal lives. Research questions are: 1. What are the physiological characteristics of the visual system? I concentrate on the spectral properties of the photoreceptor cells as these represent the input to the visual system; 2. What is the nature of the photic environment? Measurements of the light available for vision and the optical characteristics of visual targets are measured; and 3. What are the visual tasks that the visual systems seems to be adapted for? This usually requires a knowledge of visual behaviours. Thus, my lab works in all three of these research areas bot here at Cornell, and out in the field.

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