The Retina as Embodying Predictions about the Visual World

Michael J. Berry; Gregory Schwartz

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395518.003.0107

The Retina as Embodying Predictions about the Visual World

Michael J. Berry, Gregory Schwartz

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the retina's predictive capabilities and analyses the underlying circuit mechanisms. This provides the essential building blocks for understanding the more sophisticated predictions carried out in the rest of the brain. The chapter shows that retinal predictions are not carried out using the same kind of algorithms that an engineer might chose. The retina tends to use computational "tricks" that are good enough to achieve the desired result over a useful range of stimulus conditions, but which do not perfectly achieve the most general solution.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Predictions in the Brain
Subtitle of host publication	Using Our Past to Generate a Future
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199897230
ISBN (Print)	9780195395518
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395518.003.0107
State	Published - Sep 22 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

General Psychology

Keywords

Brain
Predictive computations
Retina
Stimulus conditions
Visual perception

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