Ecologie Evolutive Empirique, Communication & Coopération
Julien Renoult
- Publication : 5 janvier 2017
Chargé de Recherche CNRS - CNRS Research ScientistI 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
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.
