Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Ignoring correlated activity causes a failure of retinal population codes

  • Kiersten Ruda,
  • Joel Zylberberg,
  • Greg D. Field

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18436-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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To see during day and night, the retina adapts to a trillion-fold change in light intensity. The authors show that an accurate read-out of retinal signals over this intensity range requires that brain circuits account for changing noise correlations across populations of retinal neurons.