The role of vision in human development has long been recognized.
Fox, Ellen L., "Seeing Through Women's Eyes: The Role of Vision in Women's Moral Theory" in Explorations in Feminist Ethics, Cole, Eve Browning, and Coultrap-McQuin, Susan (eds)., Bloomington Indianaa University Press, 1992.
It has roots in feminist critiques of science and the role of vision in scientific research and in geography and also takes advantage of the visualization functionality of geospatial technologies.
Here, we take a closer look at the potential role of vision; Specifically, we question the impact that our increasing exposure to images of desirable foods (what is often labelled 'food porn', or 'gastroporn') via digital interfaces might be having, and ask whether it might not inadvertently be exacerbating our desire for food (what we call 'visual hunger').
We used an obstacle made of plastic strips to assess the role of vision in M. lucifugus.
It would seem that the role of vision in detecting and correcting errors in predictive fingertip forces has been widely underestimated.
Finally, we tested the role of vision by observing courtship under dim red light (dark), which to flies is darkness [30].
Finally, the blocking of illuminated tunnels reported here suggests that light serves as a cue signalling the damage of the tunnel system, and therefore points to an important role of vision in bathyergid anti-predatory behaviour and tunnel maintenance.
To test the putative role of vision in bathyergid anti-predatory behaviour, we examined the reaction of mole-rats to the incidence of light in an artificial burrow system.
In this study, we investigated the role of vision in an intriguing swimming behavior, best described as looping, which we have observed in some of the zebrafish bel mutants (Figure 1).
