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Visual signals in the retina: from photons to synapses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2001

Leon Lagnado
Leon Lagnado
Affiliation:
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
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Abstract

The ability to see the world around us is an immediate and striking example of the abilities of the nervous system, and perhaps for this reason, vision is one of the most intensively studied aspects of brain function (Hubel, 1995). This paper examines some of the earliest steps in vision occurring in the retina (Dowling, 1987; Rodieck, 1998).

Type
Wellcome Prize Lecture
Information
Experimental Physiology , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 1 - 15
Copyright
© The Physiological Society 2000

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