Cartoon of retina showing layering of neurons. The "plates" near the bottom of the image represent the 10 separate layers that contain different representations of the visual world. Click at lower left to run the movie. Some of these representations generated at retina layers are shown in this movie

oncells Here are examples of 4 ON cells. Excitation on the left, inhibition on the right. Vertical white lines indicate stimulus ON and OFF. One second duration. Horizontal lines indicate stimulus width: 600 microns.

offcells
Here are similar rasters for 3 OFF cells. Note that, except for the LED, excitation and inhibition are complementary in both space and time.

Here are seven different representations of a face after processing by seven different retina filters. Each representation is shown in a different color. When the representations are merged, later in the movie, each color falls at a different region of the face, showing that each filter extracts a different region of the original scene. See how each of these representation corresponds to a different space-time domain in the frequency realm.

In concept, 30 electrodes record from a linear array of 30 ganglion cells of the say type, each spaced at 60 um. This recording generates a space-time representation of the original 600 um stimulus. It is shown as a color-coded raster in the final display. See the rasters in this view!!

frequency

We approximated the spatial and temporal bandpass characteristics for each of the ganglion cell types measured by the raster technique. Here are the regions of activity for each cell type. The OFF cells seem to form discrete and separate regions that together span the full space-time domain. The ON cells are more problematical. Some of the specialized cells like the DS and Bistratified cells do not separate so neatly.

Take a Tour through the Retina
This video shows how the representaiton of a face is transformed as it moves from photoreceptors through horizontal cells and finally through bipolar cells and on to ganglion cells

 

 

 

 

Cartoon of the retina showing layering of neurons

Directional Selectivity

Feedback and Crossover inhibition

Multiple Representations of the Visual Scene

Regions of space/time frequency

Space-time rasters for ON and OFF cells

Patching a neuron in a retinal slice

Targeting Retinal Neuron Subregions with Arficial Rhodopsins