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ReviewTrends in neurosciences2011

Organization and development of direction-selective circuits in the retina.

Wei Wei, Marla B Feller

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Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Early Development of Direction Selectivity in the Higher Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  4. Cholinergic Waves Have a Modest Influence on the Transcriptome of Retinal Ganglion Cells.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  13. Impact of Photoreceptor Loss on Retinal Circuitry.Annual review of vision science · 2021
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  19. GABA release selectively regulates synapse development at distinct inputs on direction-selective retinal ganglion cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Wei WeiDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Marla B Feller

Funding

The Function of Neural Activity in Developing RetinaR01EY013528 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Marla Feller · 2002 to 2026
$8.1M
Development of direction selectivity in the retinaR01EY019498 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Marla Feller · 2009 to 2026
$6.6M
NEI NIH HHS EY019498NEI NIH HHS R01 EY013528NEI NIH HHS R01EY013528NEI NIH HHS R01 EY019498
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The direction-selective circuit in the retina extracts the directional information of image motion in the visual scene. It is a classic model for neural circuit analysis because its input and output are well-defined and accessible to physiological measurements. However, the neural basis of direction selectivity is still not fully understood. Indeed, this ostensibly simple computation arises from a collection of complex neural mechanisms at all levels of circuit organization. In this review, we describe recent advances in genetic, imaging and optogenetic techniques that have improved our understanding of the synaptic organization and development underlying retinal direction selectivity.

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HumansModels, NeurologicalMotion PerceptionNerve NetRetinaRetinal Ganglion CellsSynapses

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PMID21872944
PMCPMC4538999

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