Nature Communications (May 2022)

Origins of direction selectivity in the primate retina

  • Yeon Jin Kim,
  • Beth B. Peterson,
  • Joanna D. Crook,
  • Hannah R. Joo,
  • Jiajia Wu,
  • Christian Puller,
  • Farrel R. Robinson,
  • Paul D. Gamlin,
  • King-Wai Yau,
  • Felix Viana,
  • John B. Troy,
  • Robert G. Smith,
  • Orin S. Packer,
  • Peter B. Detwiler,
  • Dennis M. Dacey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30405-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Neural coding for motion direction has been studied intensively in the visual cortex of non-human primates. Here, the authors establish an origin for direction selectivity in the retina of the macaque monkey.