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ReviewNature neuroscience2019

Stimulus- and goal-oriented frameworks for understanding natural vision.

Maxwell H Turner, Luis Gonzalo Sanchez Giraldo, Odelia Schwartz, Fred Rieke

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Review in Nature neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Maxwell H Turner *Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4164-9995
Luis Gonzalo Sanchez Giraldo *Department of Computer Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
Odelia Schwartz *Department of Computer Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
Fred Rieke *Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. rieke@uw.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1052-2609

Funding

BIOPHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF SINGLE PHOTON DETECTIONR01EY011850 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI RIEKE, FREDERICK M · 1997 to 2015
$3.5M
Retinal ganglion cell receptive field form and function during natural viewingF31EY026288 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI TURNER, MAXWELL HOLTE · 2016 to 2017
$62k
NEI NIH HHS F31 EY026288NEI NIH HHS R01 EY011850NIH HHS F31-EY026288
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our knowledge of sensory processing has advanced dramatically in the last few decades, but this understanding remains far from complete, especially for stimuli with the large dynamic range and strong temporal and spatial correlations characteristic of natural visual inputs. Here we describe some of the issues that make understanding the encoding of natural images a challenge. We highlight two broad strategies for approaching this problem: a stimulus-oriented framework and a goal-oriented one. Different contexts can call for one framework or the other. Looking forward, recent advances, particularly those based in machine learning, show promise in borrowing key strengths of both frameworks and by doing so illuminating a path to a more comprehensive understanding of the encoding of natural stimuli.

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Models, NeurologicalAnimalsHumansPhotic StimulationVision, OcularVisual Pathways

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PMID30531846
PMCPMC8378293

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