2019 - Baden Euler Berens - Nature Reviews Neuroscience.pdf (3.89 MB)
Understanding the retinal basis of vision across species
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-12, 09:19 authored by Thomas BadenThomas Baden, Thomas Euler, Philipp BerensThe vertebrate retina first evolved some 500 million years ago in ancestral marine chordates. Since then, the eyes of different species have been tuned to best support their unique visuoecological lifestyles. Visual specializations in eye designs, large-scale inhomogeneities across the retinal surface and local circuit motifs mean that all species' retinas are unique. Computational theories, such as the efficient coding hypothesis, have come a long way towards an explanation of the basic features of retinal organization and function; however, they cannot explain the full extent of retinal diversity within and across species. To build a truly general understanding of vertebrate vision and the retina's computational purpose, it is therefore important to more quantitatively relate different species' retinal functions to their specific natural environments and behavioural requirements. Ultimately, the goal of such efforts should be to build up to a more general theory of vision.
Funding
A window into the fly brain: "dual imaging" of neural circuits involved in locomotor behaviour in Drosophila; G2180; MRC-MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; MC_PC_15071
NeuroVisEco - Zebrafish vision in its natural context: from natural scenes through retinal and central processing to behaviour; G1871; EUROPEAN UNION; 677687
Anisotropic retinal circuits for processing of colour and space in nature; G2397; BBSRC-BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL; BB/R014817/1
Anisotropic retinal circuits for processing of colour and space in nature - Lister Institute Research Prize; G2503; LISTER INSTITUTE
Philip Leverhulme Prize - Biological Sciences; G2276; LEVERHULME TRUST; PLP-2017-005
Optical Electrophysiology: Establishing fluorescence voltage imaging capability at Sussex Neuroscience; G2018; MRC-MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
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Nature Reviews NeuroscienceISSN
1471-003XPublisher
Nature ResearchExternal DOI
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1Volume
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5-20Department affiliated with
- Neuroscience Publications
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- Sussex Neuroscience Publications
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