Adaptation of retinal discriminability to natural scenes.

ABSTRACT: Sensory systems discriminate between stimuli to direct behavioral choices, a process governed by two distinct properties - neural sensitivity to specific stimuli, and neural variability that importantly includes correlations between neurons. Two questions that have received extensive investigation and debate are whether visual systems are optimized for natural scenes, and whether correlated neural variability contributes to this optimization. However, the lack of sufficient computational models has made these questions inaccessible in the context of the normal function of the visual system, which is to discriminate between natural stimuli. Here we take a direct approach to analyze discriminability under natural scenes for a population of salamander retinal ganglion cells using a model of t

SUBMITTER: Ding X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11463383 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature