Panoramic visual statistics shape retina-wide organization of receptive fields
Gupta D, Mlynarski WF, Sumser AL, Symonova O, Svaton J, Jösch MA. 2023. Panoramic visual statistics shape retina-wide organization of receptive fields. Nature Neuroscience. 26, 606–614.
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Statistics of natural scenes are not uniform - their structure varies dramatically from ground to sky. It remains unknown whether these non-uniformities are reflected in the large-scale organization of the early visual system and what benefits such adaptations would confer. Here, by relying on the efficient coding hypothesis, we predict that changes in the structure of receptive fields across visual space increase the efficiency of sensory coding. We show experimentally that, in agreement with our predictions, receptive fields of retinal ganglion cells change their shape along the dorsoventral retinal axis, with a marked surround asymmetry at the visual horizon. Our work demonstrates that, according to principles of efficient coding, the panoramic structure of natural scenes is exploited by the retina across space and cell-types.
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We thank Hiroki Asari for sharing the dataset of naturalistic images, Anton Sumser for sharing visual stimulus code, Yoav Ben Simon for initial explorative work with the generation of AAVs, and Tomas Vega-Zuñiga for help with immunostainings. We also thank Gasper Tkacik and members of the Neuroethology group for their comments on the manuscript. This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units of IST Austria through resources provided by Scientific Computing, the Preclinical Facility, the Lab Support Facility, and the Imaging and Optics Facility. This work was supported by European Union Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant 665385 (DG), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) stand-alone grant P 34015 (WM), Human Frontiers Science Program LT000256/2018-L (AS), EMBO ALTF 1098-2017 (AS) and the European Research Council Starting Grant 756502 (MJ).
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Gupta D, Mlynarski WF, Sumser AL, Symonova O, Svaton J, Jösch MA. Panoramic visual statistics shape retina-wide organization of receptive fields. Nature Neuroscience. 2023;26:606-614. doi:10.1038/s41593-023-01280-0
Gupta, D., Mlynarski, W. F., Sumser, A. L., Symonova, O., Svaton, J., & Jösch, M. A. (2023). Panoramic visual statistics shape retina-wide organization of receptive fields. Nature Neuroscience. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01280-0
Gupta, Divyansh, Wiktor F Mlynarski, Anton L Sumser, Olga Symonova, Jan Svaton, and Maximilian A Jösch. “Panoramic Visual Statistics Shape Retina-Wide Organization of Receptive Fields.” Nature Neuroscience. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01280-0.
D. Gupta, W. F. Mlynarski, A. L. Sumser, O. Symonova, J. Svaton, and M. A. Jösch, “Panoramic visual statistics shape retina-wide organization of receptive fields,” Nature Neuroscience, vol. 26. Springer Nature, pp. 606–614, 2023.
Gupta D, Mlynarski WF, Sumser AL, Symonova O, Svaton J, Jösch MA. 2023. Panoramic visual statistics shape retina-wide organization of receptive fields. Nature Neuroscience. 26, 606–614.
Gupta, Divyansh, et al. “Panoramic Visual Statistics Shape Retina-Wide Organization of Receptive Fields.” Nature Neuroscience, vol. 26, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 606–14, doi:10.1038/s41593-023-01280-0.
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