Cephalopod Experimental Projected Habitat (CEPH): Virtual Reality for Underwater Organisms

Cephalopods' visually driven, dynamic, and diverse skin display makes them a key animal model in sensory ethology and camouflage research. Development of novel methods is critically important in order to monitor and objectively quantify cephalopod behavior. In this work, the development of Ceph...

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Main Author: Noam Josef
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00073/full
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spelling doaj-d550040899414dde8e906f0c8cb228ca2020-11-24T22:34:18ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452018-03-01510.3389/fmars.2018.00073337412Cephalopod Experimental Projected Habitat (CEPH): Virtual Reality for Underwater OrganismsNoam Josef0Noam Josef1Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL, United StatesMarine Operations Department, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL, United StatesCephalopods' visually driven, dynamic, and diverse skin display makes them a key animal model in sensory ethology and camouflage research. Development of novel methods is critically important in order to monitor and objectively quantify cephalopod behavior. In this work, the development of Cephalopod Experimental Projected Habitat (CEPH) is described. This newly developed experimental design bridges computational and ethological sciences, providing a visually controlled arena which requires limited physical space and minimal previous technical background. Created from relatively inexpensive and readily available materials, the experimental apparatus utilizes reflected light which closely resembles natural settings. Preliminary results suggest the experimental design reproducibly challenges marine organisms with visually dynamic surroundings, including videos of prey and predator. This new approach should offer new avenues for marine organism sensory research and may serve researchers from various fields.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00073/fulldynamic camouflageOctopus vulgarisanimal visionlight in the oceanbenthicanimal behavior
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Cephalopod Experimental Projected Habitat (CEPH): Virtual Reality for Underwater Organisms
Frontiers in Marine Science
dynamic camouflage
Octopus vulgaris
animal vision
light in the ocean
benthic
animal behavior
author_facet Noam Josef
Noam Josef
author_sort Noam Josef
title Cephalopod Experimental Projected Habitat (CEPH): Virtual Reality for Underwater Organisms
title_short Cephalopod Experimental Projected Habitat (CEPH): Virtual Reality for Underwater Organisms
title_full Cephalopod Experimental Projected Habitat (CEPH): Virtual Reality for Underwater Organisms
title_fullStr Cephalopod Experimental Projected Habitat (CEPH): Virtual Reality for Underwater Organisms
title_full_unstemmed Cephalopod Experimental Projected Habitat (CEPH): Virtual Reality for Underwater Organisms
title_sort cephalopod experimental projected habitat (ceph): virtual reality for underwater organisms
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
series Frontiers in Marine Science
issn 2296-7745
publishDate 2018-03-01
description Cephalopods' visually driven, dynamic, and diverse skin display makes them a key animal model in sensory ethology and camouflage research. Development of novel methods is critically important in order to monitor and objectively quantify cephalopod behavior. In this work, the development of Cephalopod Experimental Projected Habitat (CEPH) is described. This newly developed experimental design bridges computational and ethological sciences, providing a visually controlled arena which requires limited physical space and minimal previous technical background. Created from relatively inexpensive and readily available materials, the experimental apparatus utilizes reflected light which closely resembles natural settings. Preliminary results suggest the experimental design reproducibly challenges marine organisms with visually dynamic surroundings, including videos of prey and predator. This new approach should offer new avenues for marine organism sensory research and may serve researchers from various fields.
topic dynamic camouflage
Octopus vulgaris
animal vision
light in the ocean
benthic
animal behavior
url http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00073/full
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