Using CNN to unravel space-time processing in the vertebrate retina

The vertebrate retina performs a number of highly complex transformations in space and time. Because we have not had adequate tools for analyzing these functions, little is presently known about the mechanisms underlying these transformations. CNN provides, for the first time, an analytical framework within which these transformations can be predicted, measured and analyzed. While conventional analyses have relied on studies of only single cells CNN allows us to think about, manipulate generate and study patterns of activity involving large populations of cells. Thus, CNN promises to unravel some of the important mechanisms by which the retina abstracts and encodes the visual message in space and time