Natural image processing in the primate retina
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The retina is the first stage of the visual system, where light is absorbed and encoded in the spikes of neurons. Information from roughly 100 million photoreceptors is compressed to the outputs of roughly 1 million neurons, called retinal ganglion cells, that make up the optic nerve. This is the brain's only source of visual information, yet how the retina uses this limited bandwidth is not well understood. This is particularly true for natural vision in primates, despite its relevance for human health applications, as retinal research is primarily done in non-primate species using targeted, artificial stimuli. Here, large-scale, multi-electrode recordings are used to investigate natural image processing in the primate retina through the complementary lenses of encoding, where computational models are used to predict the responses of RGCs to natural stimuli, and decoding, or reconstruction, where the stimulus is estimated from the RGC responses
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Brackbill, Nora Jane |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Chichilnisky, E. J |
| Degree supervisor | Schleier-Smith, Monika |
| Thesis advisor | Chichilnisky, E. J |
| Thesis advisor | Schleier-Smith, Monika |
| Thesis advisor | Baccus, Stephen A |
| Degree committee member | Baccus, Stephen A |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nora Jane Brackbill |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2020 by Nora Jane Brackbill
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