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ArticleNature neuroscience2023

Panoramic visual statistics shape retina-wide organization of receptive fields.

Divyansh Gupta, Wiktor Młynarski, Anton Sumser, Olga Symonova, Jan Svatoň, Maximilian Joesch

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Article in Nature neuroscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse.Annual review of neuroscience · 2026
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  4. A complete spatial map of mouse retinal ganglion cells reveals density and gene expression specializations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. Retinal ganglion cells encode the direction of motion outside their classical receptive field.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  16. Mapping the Retina onto the Brain.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024
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  17. Efficient processing of natural scenes in visual cortex.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Divyansh Gupta *Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7400-6665
Wiktor Młynarski *Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.
Anton Sumser *Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4792-1881
Olga SymonovaInstitute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.
Jan SvatoňInstitute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6198-2939
Maximilian JoeschInstitute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria. maxjosch@ist.ac.at.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3937-1330

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Statistics of natural scenes are not uniform-their structure varies dramatically from ground to sky. It remains unknown whether these nonuniformities are reflected in the large-scale organization of the early visual system and what benefits such adaptations would confer. Here, by relying on the efficient coding hypothesis, we predict that changes in the structure of receptive fields across visual space increase the efficiency of sensory coding. Using the mouse (Mus musculus) as a model species, we show that receptive fields of retinal ganglion cells change their shape along the dorsoventral retinal axis, with a marked surround asymmetry at the visual horizon, in agreement with our predictions. Our work demonstrates that, according to principles of efficient coding, the panoramic structure of natural scenes is exploited by the retina across space and cell types.

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RetinaVisual FieldsAnimalsMicePhotic StimulationRetinal Ganglion Cells

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PMCPMC10076217

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