title: Early vision: where (some of) the magic happens.
abstract: A recent study provides new insights into how the very different response characteristics of the main visual pathways from the eye to the brain may directly result from the presence or absence of a 'spike trigger-zone' in retinal bipolar cells.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Otfried-Müller Strasse 25, 72076, Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: Thomas.Baden@uni-tuebingen.de.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Baden
authors.affiliation: Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Otfried-Müller Strasse 25, 72076, Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: Thomas.Euler@cin.uni-tuebingen.de.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Euler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D062550:NAV1.1 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel / Q000502:physiology*; D051245:Retinal Bipolar Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D062550:NAV1.1 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel