Our eyes send different'images' of the outside world to the brain—an image of contours (line
drawing), a colour image (watercolour painting) or an image of moving objects (movie). This …

We rely on our visual system to cope with the vast barrage of incoming light patterns and to
extract features from the scene that are relevant to our well-being. The necessary reduction …

Patients with retinal degeneration lose sight due to the gradual demise of photoreceptors.
Electrical stimulation of surviving retinal neurons provides an alternative route for the …

The retina communicates with the brain using≥ 30 parallel channels, each carried by axons
of distinct types of retinal ganglion cells. In every mammalian retina one finds so-called" …

A mechanistic understanding of neural computation requires determining how information is
processed as it passes through neurons and across synapses. However, it has been …

It is widely recognized that the neural basis of brain function can be fully understood only by
integrating many disciplines at many levels. Studies of synaptic organization are bringing …

Natural vision is a highly dynamic process. Frequent body, head, and eye movements
constantly bring new images onto the retina for brief periods, challenging our understanding …

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 …

An important task in vision is to detect objects moving within a stationary scene. During
normal viewing this is complicated by the presence of eye movements that continually scan …

Intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation is a principal risk factor for glaucoma. Using a
microbead injection technique to chronically raise IOP for 15 or 30 d in mice, we identified …