Predictable irregularities in retinal receptive fields

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 16499-16514

  Liu, Yuan Sophie ^a,b   Stevens, Charles F ^a   Sharpee, Tatyana O ^a,b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information theory; Neural coding; Optimal design; Retina

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVOUS TISSUE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; RETINA CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349487750     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908926106     Document Type: Article

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