Speaker
Alan Litke
(Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP))
Description
The back of the eye is lined by an extraordinary biological position
sensitive detector, the retina. This living neural network is able to
extract vital information about the external visual world, and transmit this
information in a timely manner to the brain. In this talk, after a brief
introduction to retinal architecture, I will describe how we measure the
functional properties of the retina, show what we have learned about its
functional organization, and discuss studies aimed at guiding the design of
retinal prosthetic devices. This project was inspired by the development of
position sensitive detectors for high energy physics experiments.
Author
Alan Litke
(Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP))
