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Mechanisms Of Sensory Adaptation In The Primate Visual System, Boris Isaac Peñaloza Rojas
Mechanisms Of Sensory Adaptation In The Primate Visual System, Boris Isaac Peñaloza Rojas
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Under ecological conditions, the luminance impinging on the retina varies within a dynamic range of 220 dB. Stimulus contrast can also vary drastically within a scene, and eye movements leave little time for sampling luminance. In addition, the amount of information reaching our visual system far exceeds the brain’s information processing capacity. Given the limited dynamic range of its neurons and its limited capacity in processing visual information in real-time, the brain deploys both structural and functional solutions that work in tandem to adapt to the surroundings. In this work, employing visual psychophysics and computational neuroscience, we study the mechanisms …