Rodrigo COFRE_TORRES
Author's posts
Jul 30
What are retinal receptive fields?
What are retinal receptive fields? In order to answer this question, we need to respond two others beforehand. The first is what’s the retina? A short answer for this question is that the retina is the bowl shaped tissue located in the back of the eye. This light sensitive tissue contains a complex network of …
Jul 17
What are Gap Junctions?
In neural systems, an electrical synapse is a mechanical and electrically conductive link between two adjacent neurons that is formed by proteins known as gap junctions. Hence, an electrical synapse is also called a gap junction. In this kind of coupling, the synaptic current is proportional to the difference of membrane potentials between a neuron …
Mar 14
Our questions
The main scientific questions : How is sensory neural codification done, as far as non-standard retinal cells are concerned? How are the sensory designs well adapted to the statistical distribution – highly correlated- of natural images? What exactly – in terms of spikes trains (space and time)– is the retina (including non- standard cells) sending …
