DocumentCode
2490934
Title
Neural coding in the cat retina
Author
Troy, J.B.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
Volume
3
fYear
2002
fDate
23-26 Oct. 2002
Firstpage
1994
Abstract
The output of the cat retina is conveyed to the brain by the axons of ∼170,000 retinal ganglion cells that together constitute an optic nerve. Ganglion cells come in a number of varieties with the result that the message conveyed along the nerve to the brain is partitioned into a number of components. In the paper some key discoveries about neural coding in the cat retina are reported and used to illustrate how efficient the retina is at encoding visual information.
Keywords
brain; brightness; cellular biophysics; eye; neurophysiology; noise; vision; axons; brain; cat retina; message partitioning; neural coding; optic nerve; retinal ganglion cells; visual information encoding; visual neurophysiology; Amplitude modulation; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical optical imaging; Encoding; Frequency; Information processing; Layout; Nerve fibers; Retina; Transfer functions;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint
ISSN
1094-687X
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7612-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053133
Filename
1053133
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