TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamic color communication
AU - Hutton, Pierce
AU - Seymoure, Brett M.
AU - McGraw, Kevin
AU - Ligon, Russell A.
AU - Simpson, Richard K.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Sarah Breummer and Keila DeZeeuw for assistance with figure construction. We thank the organizers of the NSF workshop that stimulated the production of these special issue articles. We thank the two anonymous reviewers whose comments greatly improved the manuscript. During manuscript preparation, KJM and RAL were supported by NSF IOS-1401236 and BMS was funded by NSF IOS-1145654 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Animal behaviors are dynamic in both space and time, and this variation is the raw material for exceptional behavioral adaptations in the animal kingdom. Here we argue that this same dynamism characterizes color signals in nature and that comparable approaches, both conceptually and methodologically, should be taken to comprehensively assess the production, perception, function, and evolution of dynamic animal colors. We review and synthesize recent findings in these emerging areas of color research and highlight the complex and interactive dynamics of color communication between senders and receivers. We also advance opportunities for new areas of research, especially centered on visual and neural plasticity of color reception as well as the intricate signaling interactions between co-expressed display behaviors and colors.
AB - Animal behaviors are dynamic in both space and time, and this variation is the raw material for exceptional behavioral adaptations in the animal kingdom. Here we argue that this same dynamism characterizes color signals in nature and that comparable approaches, both conceptually and methodologically, should be taken to comprehensively assess the production, perception, function, and evolution of dynamic animal colors. We review and synthesize recent findings in these emerging areas of color research and highlight the complex and interactive dynamics of color communication between senders and receivers. We also advance opportunities for new areas of research, especially centered on visual and neural plasticity of color reception as well as the intricate signaling interactions between co-expressed display behaviors and colors.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.08.007
DO - 10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.08.007
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84941751171
SN - 2352-1546
VL - 6
SP - 41
EP - 49
JO - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
JF - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
ER -