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How neurons compute direction

Peter Sterling ()
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Peter Sterling: Laboratory for Retinal Microcircuitry, University of Pennsylvania

Nature, 2002, vol. 420, issue 6914, 375-376

Abstract: Certain retinal neurons fire specifically in response to stimuli moving in one direction. This apparently occurs when branches of an upstream nerve cell respond asymmetrically, and link asymmetrically to the firing retinal neuron.

Date: 2002
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