Retinal degenerations are a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by death of
photoreceptors and progressive loss of vision. Retinal degenerations are a major cause of …

Visual motion on the retina activates a cohort of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). This
population activity encodes multiple streams of information extracted by parallel retinal …

In vivo calcium imaging from axons provides direct interrogation of afferent neural activity,
informing the neural representations that a local circuit receives. Unlike in somata and …

Animal eyes have evolved to process behaviorally important visual information, but how
retinas deal with statistical asymmetries in visual space remains poorly understood. Using …

Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) were one of the first classes of sensory neurons to be
described in terms of a receptive field (RF). Over the last six decades, our understanding of …

Dendrites in many neurons actively compute information. In retinal starburst amacrine cells,
transformations from synaptic input to output occur within individual dendrites and mediate …

Pain is an unpleasant, negative emotion and its debilitating effects are complex to manage.
Mammalian models have long dominated research on nociception and pain, but there is …

The orientation of visual stimuli is a salient feature of visual scenes. In vertebrates, the first
neural processing steps generating orientation selectivity take place in the retina. Here, we …

Motion anticipation allows the visual system to compensate for the slow speed of
phototransduction so that a moving object can be accurately located. This correction is …

Sensory systems must reduce the transmission of redundant information to function
efficiently. One strategy is to continuously adjust the sensitivity of neurons to suppress …