Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Reply
- Acknowledgements
- Concepts of coding and efficiency
- Efficiency of the visual pathway
- 5 The design of compound eyes
- 6 The light response of photoreceptors
- 7 Is there more than meets the eye?
- 8 Quantum efficiency and performance of retinal ganglion cells
- 9 Neural interactions underlying direction-selectivity in the rabbit retina
- 10 Detection and discrimination mechanisms in the striate cortex of the Old-World monkey
- Colour
- Brightness, adaptation and contrast
- Development of vision
- Depth and texture
- Motion
- From image to object
- Index
8 - Quantum efficiency and performance of retinal ganglion cells
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Reply
- Acknowledgements
- Concepts of coding and efficiency
- Efficiency of the visual pathway
- 5 The design of compound eyes
- 6 The light response of photoreceptors
- 7 Is there more than meets the eye?
- 8 Quantum efficiency and performance of retinal ganglion cells
- 9 Neural interactions underlying direction-selectivity in the rabbit retina
- 10 Detection and discrimination mechanisms in the striate cortex of the Old-World monkey
- Colour
- Brightness, adaptation and contrast
- Development of vision
- Depth and texture
- Motion
- From image to object
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- VisionCoding and Efficiency, pp. 84 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991