ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Cell-type-specific computations for depth perception from motion parallax
To guide behaviour, the brain must infer the structure of the external world based on incomplete and unreliable sensory inputs. In the visual system, the signals available to the brain are limited to the two-dimensional images formed on the retinae. To reconstruct the three-dimensional location of objects in the environment, visual circuits must infer the missing depth information. This ability is innate in most mammals, not requiring visual experience, and involves the neocortex. While animals take advantage of both monocular and binocular signals to estimate depth, binocular vision is not necessary for depth perception. Animals’ innate capacity for depth perception is thought to rely on…
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