Visual Processing: Retina and V1

7 important questions on Visual Processing: Retina and V1

What is the difference between rods and cones?

- Cones are mostly found by the fovea
-Rods are mostly found in the peripheral area

- Rods 1000x sensitive to light --> good at detecting light
- Cones --> color vision, sharpness
   - 3 different kinds of cones: long wavelength (red or yellow), medium wavelength (best to green, less to yellow), short wavelength (blue)

Why is it weird that we seem to see color everywhere?

Cones are almost exclusively in the center of the visual field

What is retinal color blindness?

Absence of a particular cone type
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Why is there a need for data compression and how does the brain solve this?

There are 130 million photoreceptors but only 1 million nerve fibers.
The brain solves this by:
- Ganglion cells only respond to contrast (ON and OFF center surround RG cells), not to diffuse light (which is why we cannot see 'real' luminance differences, only inferred ones)
-   Color coding via RG&BY cells
-  Sensitivity to CHANGE
- Parallel pathways (Midget & Parasol cells)

What are the characteristics of midget & parasol cells?

Midget cells:
- Small receptive field, high spatial frequency (detail)
- Single cone center and surround: color contrast selective
- Slow sustained responses

Parasol cells:
- Large receptive field, low spatial frequency
- Many cones inout to center and surround: not color selective
- Fast transient response

What is an anatomical/functional difference in V1?

- Thick stripes vs Think stripes
- Blobs & Interstipes

What factors influence the weighted computational power of a neuron?

- Inputs close to the soma have more weight
- Inputs from stronger synapses (more receptors) have more weight

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