Efficient coding of spatial information in the primate retina

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 16256-16264

  Doi, Eizaburo ^a,b,f   Gauthier, Jeffrey L ^b,g   Field, Greg D ^b,h   Shlens, Jonathon ^a,b   Sher, Alexander ^c   Greschner, Martin ^b   Machado, Timothy A ^b,e   Jepson, Lauren H ^b   Mathieson, Keith ^d   Gunning, Deborah E ^d   Litke, Alan M ^c   Paninski, Liam ^e   Chichilnisky, E J ^b   Simoncelli, Eero P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPIKE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84869051821     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4036-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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