Topic: lateral geniculate nucleus

Understanding the neural code for vision remains a major challenge for neuroscience, with recent efforts influenced by the success of convolutional neural networks. However, spiking neurons make biological vision fundamentally different from the firing rate model implicit in these artificial neural networks. In region V1 of the primate visual cortex, a flashed image is processed in tens of milliseconds, allowing time for only a few action potentials, typically across a small subset of neurons. Moreover, persistent eye motion (ocular drift) changes the location of retinal responses, and thus