Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Multiplexed computations in retinal ganglion cells of a single type

  • Stéphane Deny,
  • Ulisse Ferrari,
  • Emilie Macé,
  • Pierre Yger,
  • Romain Caplette,
  • Serge Picaud,
  • Gašper Tkačik,
  • Olivier Marre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02159-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Retinal ganglion cell subtypes are traditionally thought to encode a single visual feature across the visual field to form a feature map. Here the authors show that fast OFF ganglion cells in fact respond to two visual features, either object position or speed, depending on the stimulus location.