01 - Retinal Processing I

Topics addressed in the lecture:

• Stimulus-Sensation-Perception
• Structure of eye and retina
• Processing principles related to the structure of the retina
• Cone and rod photoreceptor types 
• Encoding of spatial information
• Encoding of color information

Examples for questions you should be able to answer:

• What is hierarchical coding?
• What is retinotopy?

Important concepts:

• Labeled-line coding
• Hierarchical vs. parallel vs. horizontal processing
• Receptive field
• Retinotopy
• Local coding
• Coarse coding

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