Created in 2006, the Laboratory of Sensory Ecology is based at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), campus of Natal. Natal, the capital city of Rio Grande do Norte State, is a pleasant seaside town located in the northeastern region of Brazil.
Our facilities include infrastructure for behavioral experimentation, psychophysics, spectrophotometry and visual modeling.
In cooperation with environmental agencies and other universities, we also conduct field work at different Brazilian biomes, such as: rain forests (Atlantic Rain Forest), xeric shrublands (Caatinga), savannas (Cerrado) and grasslands (Pampa).
Created in 2006, the Laboratory of Sensory Ecology is based at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), campus of Natal. Natal, the capital city of Rio Grande do Norte State, is a pleasant seaside town located in the northeastern region of Brazil.
Sensory Ecology
Sensory ecology is a relatively new field of investigation that integrates two classical disciplines: sensory physiology and ecology. It focuses on the acquisition and transmission of information in the environment and addresses proximate and ultimate questions, such as:
1) Which information are available?
2) How information is transmitted?
3) How and why information acquired is used?
Location
Laboratory of Sensory Ecology
Department of Physiology and Behavior
Biosciences Center
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte