Ecologie Evolutive Empirique, Communication & Coopération

Julien Renoult

Chargé de Recherche CNRS - CNRS Research Scientist

I am a  visual ecologist and evolutionary biologist interested in the evolution of organic communication systems. My main interest lies in the role of animal perception as a selective agent of communicative traits

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Last update: January 11th 2017

CR1 CNRS - INSHS-INEE

Section 26 CNRS - Brain, Behavior & Cognition

email1: jurenoult[at]gmail[dot]com

email2: julien[dot]renoult[at]cefe[dot]cnrs[dot]fr

phone: 04.67.61.32.10

Julien RENOULT

CEFE-CNRS

1919 route de Mende

34293 Montpellier 5

FRANCE

 

Research areas

- evolutionary & computational aesthetics (aesthetic theory of efficient processing applied to artworks, plants and animals)

- processing bias theory (sparse coding, efficient categorization)

- models of animal vision (colour vision, pattern recognition)

- linking sensory stimulation to preferences

- sexual selection (quantification of perceptual exploitation in the evolution of sexual signals)

- computer vision - deep neural networks

 

Studied models

- Primates (human, mandrills)

- Dragonflies (from French Guiana)

- Birds, fruit, flowers

- Artworks (physical and numeric) 

 

Ongoing research projects

 

 

RENOULT J.P. 2016 The evolution of aesthetics: a review of models. In Aesthetics and Neuroscience: Scientific and Artistic Perspectives, (KAPOULA Z. & VERNET M, ed.). pp. 271-300. Springer International Publishing.

RENOULT J.P., BOVET J., RAYMOND M. 2016. Beauty is in the efficient coding of the beholder. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160027

DOUTRELANT C., PAQUET M., RENOULT J.P., GREGOIRE A., CROCHET P.-A., COVAS R. 2016. Worldwide patterns of bird colouration on islands. Ecology Letters. 19: 537-545.

RENOULT J.P., KELBER A., SCHAEFER H.M. 2015. Colour spaces in ecology and evolutionary biology. Biological Reviews. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12230. PDF

RENOULT J.P., BLÜTHGEN N., BINKENSTEIN J., WEINER C.N., WERNER M., SCHAEFER H.M. 2015. Linking community to sensory ecology: the relative importance of color signaling for plant generalization in pollination networks. Oikos. 124: 347-354

RENOULT J.P., VALIDO P., JORDANO P., SCHAEFER M. 2014. Adaptation of flower and fruit colours to diversified mutualists. New Phytologist. 201: 678-686.

RENOULT J.P., COURTIOL A., SCHAEFER H.M. 2013. A novel framework to study colour signaling to multiple species. Functional Ecology. 27: 718-729.

RENOULT J.P., THOMANN M., SCHAEFER H.M., CHEPTOU P.-O. 2013. Selection on quantitative colour variation in Centaurea cyanus: the role of the pollinator’s visual system. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26: 2415-2427.