A Public Confession: The Retina Trumpets Its Failed Predictions

Timothy E. Holy

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2007.09.002

A Public Confession: The Retina Trumpets Its Failed Predictions

Timothy E. Holy

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Abstract

To compensate for delays of phototransduction, the retina anticipates the future by extrapolating the position of a moving object. But what if the object's motion changes, and the extrapolation is wrong? In this issue of Neuron, Schwartz and colleagues show that these prediction failures trigger a large burst of firing that helps to rapidly correct the neural representation of the object's new position.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	831-832
Number of pages	2
Journal	Neuron
Volume	55
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2007.09.002
State	Published - Sep 20 2007

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