HOW NEURAL INTERACTIONS FORM NEURAL RESPONSES IN THE SALAMANDER RETINA

A wide range of experimental data characterizing properties of individ ual salamander retinal cells and synaptic interactions are integrated to form a quantitative computational model of Visual function in the s alamander retina. The model is used to show how specific interactions between neurons and between networks of neurons can lead to the integr ated response behavior of individual cells deep in the retina. The mod el is also used to illustrate how the representation of moving and sta tionary stimuli is encoded in a series of layer-by-layer transformatio ns leading to the final retinal output at the ganglion cell layer.