Spike latencies in retinal ganglion cells encode spatial image details
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Vision is a highly dynamic process, structured by frequent eye movements that bring a new image onto the retina and initiate a short episode of visual processing. Analysis of the spatial scene can be extremely rapid and precise: For example, human subjects can detect and classify objects in brief image presentations of ~100 ms [1]. What neural codes underlie such rapid image processing has been a longstanding question.
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