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The retina encodes visual information and sends it to the brain. We now learn that this neural code varies strongly with light adaptation. Does this mean a change in the message or a change in the way that the message is coded?

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Figure 1: Retinal coding changes dramatically with light levels.

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  1. Maarten Kamermans is in the Retinal Signal Processing Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.,

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Kamermans, M. Change the neural code, change the message. Nat Neurosci 18, 4–6 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3899

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