Visual threshold is set by linear and nonlinear mechanisms in the retina that mitigate noise: How neural circuits in the retina improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the single-photon response

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 438-447

  Pahlberg, Johan ^a   Sampath, Alapakkam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear filtering; Nonlinear threshold; Retinal circuitry; Signal transfer; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAMMAL; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RETINA; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; PHOTONS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79956145778     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100014     Document Type: Review

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