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(02) Oct 27, 2014, Retinal & Visual Pathways (ag)

Topics addressed in the lecture:

  • Major photoreceptor types
  • Encoding of spatial information
  • Encoding of color information
  • Ganglion cell receptive fields
  • Luminance adaptation

Examples for question you should be able to answer:

  • Explain how the feed-forward connectivity and lateral interaction in the retina leads to on-center ganglion cell receptive fields
  • Define a visual receptive field. How does the receptive field of an off-center retinal ganglion cell look like?

Important concepts:

  • Local coding
  • Coarse coding
  • Center-surround antagonism
  • Dynamic range
  • Luminance adaptation

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