The vertebrate retina first evolved some 500 million years ago in ancestral marine
chordates. Since then, the eyes of different species have been tuned to best support their …

The mammalian retina consists of neurons of> 60 distinct types, each playing a specific role
in processing visual images. They are arranged in three main stages. The first decomposes …

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 …

The fovea is a specialized region of the retina that dominates the visual perception of
primates by providing high chromatic and spatial acuity. While the foveal and peripheral …

A fundamental feature of first-order neurons in the tactile system is that their distal axon
branches in the skin and forms many transduction sites, yielding complex receptive fields …

Self-motion triggers complementary visual and vestibular reflexes supporting image-
stabilization and balance. Translation through space produces one global pattern of retinal …

Every aspect of visual perception and behavior is built from the neural activity of retinal
ganglion cells (RGCs), the output neurons of the eye. Here, we review progress toward …

Orientation selectivity is a property of mammalian primary visual cortex (V1) neurons, yet its
emergence along the visual pathway varies across species. In carnivores and primates …

How neuronal computations in the sensory periphery contribute to computations in the
cortex is not well understood. We examined this question in the context of visual-motion …

The dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) receives visual information from the retina and
transmits it to the cortex. In this study, we made extracellular recordings in the dLGN of both …