<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In this Special Issue, we seek contributions that address seeing colors in nature by both vertebrates and invertebrates. We encourage analyses from different disciplines – including behavior, psychophysics, electrophysiology, and genetics – and from a variety of viewpoints – including evolution, engineering, and aesthetics.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/vision-research/about/forthcoming-special-issues" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/vision-research/about/forthcoming-special-issues</a><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guest editors:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Karen Cheney, David Foster, Almut Kelber, Hidehiko Komatsu and Sérgio Nascimento (coordinating editor)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special issue information:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Color vision is found in many animals including insects, spiders, fish, amphibia, reptiles, birds, mammals, and humans. It underpins the detection, discrimination, and recognition of materials, objects, and other organisms by their reflected light. Yet the spectral properties of light in natural environments are often complex and unpredictable, and a challenge for any sensory system to deal with.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How well matched is color vision to real-world spectra and their variation? Are biological solutions just “good enough” or better than necessary? For example, is the gamut of colors in nature smaller or larger than expected from the photoreceptor responses in humans? Likewise in other mammals, birds, fish, and insects? How are brains adapted to these natural colors? Are they processed differently from less natural ones? Are colours of moving objects processed in specific ways? Do they affect inferences about material properties? And how does the daily and seasonal variation of natural lighting affect color sensing and processing?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In this Special Issue, we seek contributions that address seeing colors in nature by both vertebrates and invertebrates. We encourage analyses from different disciplines – including behavior, psychophysics, electrophysiology, and genetics – and from a variety of viewpoints – including evolution, engineering, and aesthetics.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are keen to promote an integrative approach where specialized findings are set in a larger, more general and less technical context. Papers on original theoretical and experimental research are welcome, along with reviews anchored in the established literature. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Recent issues of Vision Research <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/vision-research" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/vision-research</span></a> and the Guide for Authors <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/vision-research/0042-6989/guide-for-authors" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.elsevier.com/journals/vision-research/0042-6989/guide-for-authors</span></a> should be consulted for style and subject coverage.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Manuscript submission information:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Journal’s submission system is now open for receiving submissions to our Special Issue. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important to select “<b>VSI:</b> <b>Seeing Colors in Nature”</b> when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please submit your manuscript via <a href="https://www.editorialmanager.com/ridd/default1.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.editorialmanager.com/vr/default1.aspx</span></a> before <b>31st July 2023</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All the submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Upon its editorial acceptance, your article will go into production immediately. It will be published in the latest regular issue, while be presented on the specific Special Issue webpage simultaneously. In regular issues, Special Issue articles will be clearly marked and branded.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Keywords:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">color vision in natural environments; natural color stimuli; ecological color vision;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Learn more about the benefits of publishing in a special issue: <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper/special-issues" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper/special-issues</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interested in becoming a guest editor? Discover the benefits of guest editing a special issue and the valuable contribution that you can make to your field: <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/editors/role-of-an-editor/guest-editors" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.elsevier.com/editors/role-of-an-editor/guest-editors</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p></div>