Feature detection by retinal ganglion cells

D Kerschensteiner - Annual review of vision science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Retinal circuits transform the pixel representation of photoreceptors into the feature
representations of ganglion cells, whose axons transmit these representations to the brain …

Do we know what the early visual system does?

M Carandini, JB Demb, V Mante, DJ Tolhurst… - Journal of …, 2005 - jneurosci.org
We can claim that we know what the visual system does once we can predict neural
responses to arbitrary stimuli, including those seen in nature. In the early visual system …

Contrast sensitivity of ON and OFF human retinal pathways in myopia

S Poudel, J **, H Rahimi-Nasrabadi… - Journal of …, 2024 - jneurosci.org
The human visual cortex processes light and dark stimuli with ON and OFF pathways that
are differently modulated by luminance contrast. We have previously demonstrated that ON …

Underwater image enhancement using adaptive retinal mechanisms

SB Gao, M Zhang, Q Zhao, XS Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an underwater image enhancement model inspired by the morphology and
function of the teleost fish retina. We aim to solve the problems of underwater image …

Reading and myopia: contrast polarity matters

AC Aleman, M Wang, F Schaeffel - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
In myopia the eye grows too long, generating poorly focused retinal images when people try
to look at a distance. Myopia is tightly linked to the educational status and is on the rise …

[HTML][HTML] A role for melanopsin in alpha retinal ganglion cells and contrast detection

TM Schmidt, NM Alam, S Chen, P Kofuji, W Li… - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Distinct subclasses of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) mediate vision and nonimage-forming
functions such as circadian photoentrainment. This distinction stems from studies that …

Inhibition decorrelates visual feature representations in the inner retina

K Franke, P Berens, T Schubert, M Bethge, T Euler… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The retina extracts visual features for transmission to the brain. Different types of bipolar cell
split the photoreceptor input into parallel channels and provide the excitatory drive for …

Two pairs of ON and OFF retinal ganglion cells are defined by intersectional patterns of transcription factor expression

DL Rousso, M Qiao, RD Kagan, M Yamagata… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Visual information is conveyed to the brain by axons of> 30 retinal ganglion cell (RGC)
types. Characterization of these types is a prerequisite to understanding visual perception …

Two-photon imaging of nonlinear glutamate release dynamics at bipolar cell synapses in the mouse retina

BG Borghuis, JS Marvin, LL Looger… - Journal of …, 2013 - jneurosci.org
Alpha/Y-type retinal ganglion cells encode visual information with a receptive field
composed of nonlinear subunits. This nonlinear subunit structure enhances sensitivity to …

Intrinsic properties and functional circuitry of the AII amacrine cell

JB Demb, JH Singer - Visual neuroscience, 2012 - cambridge.org
Amacrine cells represent the most diverse class of retinal neuron, comprising dozens of
distinct cell types. Each type exhibits a unique morphology and generates specific visual …