Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Neural sensitization improves encoding fidelity in the primate retina

  • Todd R. Appleby,
  • Michael B. Manookin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11734-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Light intensity on the retina can fluctuate rapidly during natural vision, posing a challenge for encoding visual information. Here, the authors report that mechanisms of sensitization/facilitation maintain the sensitivity of the numerically dominant neural pathway in the primate retina during dynamic vision.