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. 2014 Feb 17;24(4):R155-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.12.045.

Visual circuits: mouse retina no longer a level playing field

Onkar S Dhande  1 , Andrew D Huberman  2
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Visual circuits: mouse retina no longer a level playing field

Onkar S Dhande et al. Curr Biol. .

Abstract

Unlike humans, monkeys, or carnivores, mice are thought to lack a retinal subregion devoted to high-resolution vision; systematic analysis has now shown that mice encode visual space non-uniformly, increasing their spatial sampling of the binocular visual field.

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The mouse’s view of central (binocular; yellow) and peripheral (monocular; blue) visual space. New findings from Bleckert et al. [1] reveal dramatic variation in the size and spatial sampling of alpha retinal ganglion cells, which may underlie variation in the resolution for different parts of the visual scene. For data on complete binocular maps in mice see [11].
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