In recent years, sensory neuroscientists have made major efforts to dissect the structure and
function of ribbon synapses which process sensory information in the eye and ear. This …

How an object is perceived depends on the temporal context in which it is encountered.
Sensory signals in the brain also depend on temporal context, a phenomenon often referred …

The mammalian retina is an important model system for studying neural circuitry: Its role in
sensation is clear, its cell types are relatively well defined, and its responses to natural …

Alpha/Y-type retinal ganglion cells encode visual information with a receptive field
composed of nonlinear subunits. This nonlinear subunit structure enhances sensitivity to …

In this paper, we propose an effective approach to infer the just noticeable distortion (JND)
profile based on patch-level structural visibility learning. Instead of pixel-level JND profile …

Components of neural circuits are often repurposed so that the same biological hardware
can be used for distinct computations. This flexibility in circuit operation is required to …

Electrical and chemical synapses coexist in circuits throughout the CNS. Yet, it is not well
understood how electrical and chemical synaptic transmission interact to determine the …

Vision begins in the retina, whose intricate neural circuits extract salient features of the
environment from the light entering our eyes. Neurodegenerative diseases of the retina (eg …

Contrast is computed throughout the nervous system to encode changing inputs efficiently.
The retina encodes luminance and contrast over a wide range of visual conditions and must …

An ultimate goal in retina science is to understand how the neural circuit of the retina
processes natural visual scenes. Yet most studies in laboratories have long been performed …