(02) Retina - Nov 2, 2015
Topics addressed in the lecture:
- Major photoreceptor types
- Encoding of spatial information
- Encoding of color information
- Ganglion cell receptive fields
- Luminance adaptation
Examples for questions 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
- Contrast encoding
- Sensitivity versus dynamic range
- Luminance adaptation
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