ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2012
Direction selectivity in the retina: symmetry and asymmetry in structure and function.
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- Attention maps reveal stimulus-dependent retinal population codes.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Unraveling the role of asymmetric excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs to retinal ganglion cell direction selectivity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
Visual information is processed in the retina to a remarkable degree before it is transmitted to higher visual centres. Several types of retinal ganglion cells (the output neurons of the retina) respond preferentially to image motion in a particular direction, and each type of direction-selective ganglion cell (DSGC) is comprised of multiple subtypes with different preferred directions. The direction selectivity of the cells is generated by diverse mechanisms operating within microcircuits that rely on independent neuronal processing in individual dendrites of both the DSGCs and the presynaptic neurons that innervate them.
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