News tagged with receptive field

How the retina works: Like a multi-layered jigsaw puzzle of receptive fields

About 1.25 million neurons in the retina -- each of which views the world only through a small jagged window called a receptive field -- collectively form the seamless picture we rely on to navigate our environment. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

Apr 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

Visual attention: How the brain makes the most of the visible world

The visual system has limited capacity and cannot process everything that falls onto the retina. Instead, the brain relies on attention to bring salient details into focus and filter out background clutter. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Mar 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0