title: Visual Neuroscience: A Retinal Ganglion Cell to Report Image Focus?
abstract: A recent study describes a mouse neuron projecting from the retina to the brain that exhibits exquisitely high sensitivity to high spatial frequency patterns presented over an unusually large receptive field: could this cell be a (de)focus detector?
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK; Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Otfried Müller Strasse 25, 72076, Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: tom@badenlab.org.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Baden
authors.affiliation: Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Otfried Müller Strasse 25, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schaeffel
authors.affiliation: Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Otfried Müller Strasse 25, 72076, Tübingen, Germany; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Otfried Müller Strasse 25, 72076, Tübingen, Germany; Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Otfried Müller Strasse 25, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Berens
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003712:Dendrites; D051379:Mice; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time; D012160:Retina; D012165:Retinal Ganglion Cells