A walk through of the mammalian visual system
A walk through of the mammalian visual system
From the retina to the superior colliculus, the lateral geniculate nucleus into primary visual cortex and beyond, this lecture gives a tour of the mammalian visual system highlighting the Nobel-prize winning discoveries of Hubel & Wiesel.
Topics covered in this lesson
- A brief historical overview of vision research
- Retina, thalamus, visual cortex
- Cells in the retina: photoreceptors, bipolar cells, and ganglion cells
- Typical computations in the retina (examples)
- Receptive fields. Direction selectivity
- Visualization of neural responses with fluorescent dyes and optogenetics
- Concluding Q&A (from 44:09).
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