Okazaki, Japan – Decades of studies on Drosophila vision have revealed multiple components required for the signaling events upon light stimulation. Light first turns on the photosensitive rhodopsin ...

Daylight vision relies on high sensitivity to subtle changes in the spatial pattern, contrast and chromaticity of light inputs. Noise in the responses of cone photoreceptors places a fundamental limit ...

The neurosensory retina is a complex ecosystem composed of precisely layered and diverse neurons, multiple vascular plexuses, and glial cells. It is here that visual signals from the environment are ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 91, No. 11 (May 24, 1994), pp. 4845-4849 (5 pages) ...

Rhythmic electrical activity in the retina (known as pathological oscillations) has been observed in several eye diseases, ...