Martin Greschner

TL;DR: Measurements of functional connectivity between the input and ouput layers of the macaque retina at single-cell resolution reveal computations in a neural circuit at the elementary resolution of individual neurons.

TL;DR: The present study of peripheral primate retina reveals that despite their distinctive morphology and chromatic properties, SBCs exhibit two features of other retinal ganglion cell types: center-surround antagonism and regular mosaic sampling of visual space.

TL;DR: Large-scale synchronized firing in the entire population of ON-parasol cells appears to reflect simple neighbor interactions, rather than a unique visual signal or a highly redundant coding scheme.

TL;DR: Using a newly developed multielectrode array system for the large-scale recording of neural activity, the existence of a physiologically distinct population of ganglion cells in the primate retina with distinctive visual response properties is shown and it is speculated that they correspond to the smooth/large radiate cells recently identified morphologically in thePrimate retina and may therefore provide visual input to both the lateral geniculate nucleus and the superior colliculus.

TL;DR: A unique, large-scale multielectrode array is used to demonstrate that DSGCs are present at eye opening, in mice that have been reared in darkness and in mouse that lack cholinergic retinal waves, suggesting that direction selectivity in the retina is established largely independent of patterned activity and is therefore likely to emerge as a result of complex molecular interactions.