Cortical circuits work through the generation of coordinated, large-scale activity patterns. In
sensory systems, the onset of a discrete stimulus usually evokes a temporally organized …

The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) has often been treated in the past as a linear filter that
adds little to retinal processing of visual inputs. Here we review anatomical …

The timing of action potentials relative to sensory stimuli can be precise down to
milliseconds in the visual system,,,,,,, even though the relevant timescales of natural vision …

Oculomotor behavior contributes importantly to visual search. Saccadic eye movements can
direct the fovea to potentially interesting parts of the visual field. Ensuing stable fixations …

It is generally accepted that in mammals visual information is sent to the brain along
functionally specialized parallel pathways, but whether the mouse visual system uses similar …

In mammals, retinal direction selectivity originates from GABAergic/cholinergic amacrine
cells (ACs) specifically expressing the sox2 gene. However, the cellular diversity of …

In this study, we characterize the adaptation of neurons in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus
to changes in stimulus contrast and correlations. By comparing responses to high-and low …

ON and OFF visual pathways originate in the retina at the synapse between photoreceptor
and bipolar cells. OFF bipolar cells are shorter in length and use receptors with faster …

The effects of attention on neuronal responses in visual cortex have been likened to a
change in stimulus contrast. Attention and stimulus contrast both modulate the magnitude of …

Visual neurons can respond with extremely precise temporal patterning to visual stimuli that
change on much slower time scales. Here, we investigate how the precise timing of cat …