Ignoring correlated activity causes a failure of retinal population codes

To see during day and night, the retina adapts to a trillion-fold change in light intensity. The authors show that an accurate read-out of retinal signals over this intensity range requires that brain circuits account for changing noise correlations across populations of retinal neurons.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kiersten Ruda, Joel Zylberberg, Greg D. Field
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18436-2