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From the previous lecture we saw that the eye’s extraordinary sensitivity is probably not due to the averaging of responses from many much less sensitive channels, but is based on the high sensitivity and reliability of individual retinal ganglion cells. In this lecture I am going to talk about form vision and feature extraction. Here again we are led to a rather similar conclusion: single visual neurones are selectively sensitive to remarkably specific spatio-temporal patterns.
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Barlow, H.B. (1974). Detection of Form and Pattern by Retinal Neurones. In: Conrad, M., Güttinger, W., Dal Cin, M. (eds) Physics and Mathematics of the Nervous System. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80885-2_10
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