This EMBO Workshop integrates developmental biology, sensory neuroscience, central circuits, motor control, behavior, population genetics, genomics, and ecology to advance comparative insect neuroscience. Early-career researchers are prioritized for selected talks, and all accepted participants present their work.
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ePoster · Neuroscience
Do direction selective retinal ganglion cells encode information uniformly?
Carlo Paris, Felix Hubert, Felix Franke, Olivier Marre, Matthew Chalk, Ulisse Ferrari · Bernstein Conference 2024
A major goal of sensory neuroscience is to understand the system's response to individual stimuli. Although mutual information (MI) continues to be a useful tool when applying Information theory to neural systems, it does not suffice when trying to understand how informative individual stimuli are. In general such knowledge may be crucial for understanding the functional organization of sensory systems. To investigate this, we focus on ON-OFF Direction Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells (dsRGC). These cells respond robustly to motion in their preferred direction, and sparsely to motion in the op