NIH R01 · 2024
Signal Processing in the Inner Retina
The mammalian retina contains at least 40 types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) each tuned to respond best to different and sometimes complex features in a visual scene. Together, these diverse RGC responses provide us with all of the information that we use to navigate in the visual world. Each type of RGC monitors a patch on the retinal surface, its receptive field, by collecting inputs from presynaptic bipolar and amacrine cells of which there are more than 12 and 50 types, respectively. While the general patterns of amacrine and bipolar cell connectivity that contribute to RGC light responses are known, the daunting complexity of the inner synaptic layer of the retina has impeded our…
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