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Retinal processing: smaller babies thrown out with bathwater
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- DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)01136-3
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Retinal processing: smaller babies thrown out with bathwater
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Abstract
Rod bipolar cells in the mammalian retina receive synaptic input from many noisy rod photoreceptors. When photons are scarce, linear addition of inputs would swamp signals with noise. A nonlinearity at the synapse optimizes the signal to noise ratio.
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