Population coding in the retina

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1998 Aug;8(4):488-93. doi: 10.1016/s0959-4388(98)80036-6.

Abstract

Recent advances in multi-electrode recording have brought us closer to understanding how visual information is encoded by populations of retinal ganglion cells. By monitoring the visual responses of many ganglion cells at once, it is now possible to examine how ganglion cells act together to encode a visual scene.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Communication / physiology*
  • Information Theory
  • Linear Models
  • Microelectrodes
  • Models, Neurological*
  • Nerve Net / physiology
  • Photic Stimulation
  • Retinal Ganglion Cells / physiology*