Deciphering the retina's wiring diagram.
By simultaneously recording from retinal ganglion cells while stimulating a single cone, Chichilnisky and Baylor demonstrate that the strength of physiological connections within a retinal microcircuit is linearly proportional to the number of anatomically defined synapses.
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Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 123 Anatomy/Chemistry Bldg., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6058, USA. peter@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu.
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