Eye Smarter than Scientists Believed: Neural Computations in Circuits of the Retina

Neuron

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 150-164

  Gollisch, Tim ^a,b   Meister, Markus ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEUROLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74549197864     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.12.009     Document Type: Review

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