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Visual optics, rods and cones and retinal processingAndrew Stockman
MSc Neuroscience course
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Outline
The eyeVisual opticsImage qualityMeasuring image qualityRods and conesUnivarianceTrichromacyChromatic processingRetina and retinal processing
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Light 400 - 700 nm is important for vision
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An inverted image is formed on the retina
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Cornea – Clearmembrane on the front ofthe eye.Crystalline Lens –Lens thatcan change shape toalter focus.Retina – Photosensitiveinner lining of eyeFovea – central region ofretina with sharpestvision.Optic Nerve – bundle ofnerve fibers that carryinformation to the brain.
Jim Schwiegerling
Retinal cross-section
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Visual optics
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Crystalline lens
Jim Schwiegerling
Cornea
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BBC Horizon: Light Fantastic (2006)
Jim Bowmaker dissecting an eye…
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Openstax College Physics
Image formation
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Accommodation to Target Distance
Distant target, relaxed ciliary muscles
Near target, accommodated eye, constricted ciliary muscles.
Larry Thibos
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Jim Schwiegerling
Relaxed ciliary muscle pulls zonules taut an flattens crystalline lens.
Constricted ciliary muscle releases tension on zonules and crystalline lens bulges.
Accommodation
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Image quality
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Point spread function
OpticalSystemscene image
( )xδ ( )xPSFOpticalSystempoint source point spread function
Optical systems are rarely ideal.
Point spread function of Human Eyes
PSFInput
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From Webvision, Michael Kalloniatis
Point in visual space
Point spread function (PSF)
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The Point Spread Function (PSF) characterizes the optical performance of the eye.
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Measuring image quality perceptually or “psychophysically”
1. Visual acuity measures
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6/60
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Smallest resolvable black and whitetarget. Many different types oftests are available , but the letter chart introduced by Snellen in 1862 is the most common.
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Snellen defined “standard vision” as the ability to recognize one of his optotypes when it subtended 5 minutes of arc. Thus, the optotypecan only be recognized if the person viewing it can discriminate a spatial patterns separated by visual angles of 1 minute of arc.
A Snellen chart is placed at a standard distance, twenty feet in the US (6 metres in Europe). At this distance, the symbols on the line representing "normal" acuity subtend an angle of five minutes of arc, and the thickness of the lines and of the spaces between the lines subtends one minute of arc. This line, designated 20/20, is the smallest line that a person with normal acuity can read at a distance of twenty feet.
The letters on the 20/40 line are twice as large. A person with normal acuity could be expected to read these letters at a distance of forty feet. This line is designated by the ratio 20/40. If this is the smallest line a person can read, the person's acuity is "20/40."
NORMALACUITY
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6/60
6/30
6/21
6/15
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Visual Acuity: four standard methods
Letter acuity
(Snellen)
Grating acuity
2-line resolution
2-point resolution
vs.
vs.
Orientation resolution acuity
Detection acuity
Arthur Bradley
Can the subject correctly identify the letter or the letter orientation?
Can the subject see two lines or points rather than one?
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2. Spatial contrast sensitivity measures
Measuring image quality perceptually or psychophysically
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Spatial frequency
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Source: Hans Irtel
Spatial frequency gratingsIn
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Increasing contrast
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Spatial MTF Spatial frequency in this image increases in the horizontal direction and modulation depth decreases in the vertical direction.
Increasing spatial frequency
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Spatial MTF
Increasing spatial frequency
Incr
easi
ng c
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stThe apparent border between visible and invisible modulation corresponds to your own visual modulation transfer function.
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low highmediumSpatial Frequency (c/deg)
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Contrast Sensitivity Function (CSF)2. Grating Contrast Sensitivity
Arthur Bradley
“Bandpass”
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Example of grating contrast sensitivity test using printed gratingsIn
crea
sing
spa
tial f
requ
ency
Increasing contrast “sensitivity”
Increasing contrast
Arthur Bradley
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Spatial CSFs
What happens as the visual system light adapts?
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Refractive errors
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Aberrations of the Eye
Perfect optics Imperfect optics
Larry Thibos
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From Webvision, Michael Kalloniatis
Nearsighted
Far-sighted
PSFs for different refractive errors
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Corrective lenses
Myopia Hyperopia
Near-sighted Far-sighted
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Focalplane
Light
Lens
Emmetropia(normal)
Myopia(nearsightedness)
Hyperopia(farsightedness)
Presbyopia(aged)
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ROD AND CONE VISION
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The retina is carpeted with light-sensitive rods and cones
An inverted image is formed
on the retina
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Retinal cross-section
Retina 200 ×LIGHT
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Webvision
Rods and cones
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Human photoreceptors
Short-wavelength-sensitive (S) or “blue” cone
Middle-wavelength-sensitive (M) or “green” cone
Long-wavelength-sensitive (L) or “red” cone
Cones Daytime, achromatic
and chromatic vision 3 types
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Human photoreceptors
Rods Achromatic
night vision 1 type
Short-wavelength-sensitive (S) or “blue” cone
Middle-wavelength-sensitive (M) or “green” cone
Long-wavelength-sensitive (L) or “red” cone
Cones Daytime, achromatic
and chromatic vision 3 types
Rod
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Why do we have rods and cones?
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Typical ambient light levelsIndoorlighting
Starlight
Moonlight Sunlight
Absolute rodthreshold
Conethreshold
Rod saturationbegins
Damaginglevels
Visual function
To cover that range we have two different types of photoreceptor...
Our vision has to operate over an enormous range of 1012 (1,000,000,000,000) levels
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SensitiveROD SYSTEMLower range
Less sensitiveCONE SYSTEMUpper range
Rods that are optimized for low light levels
Typical ambient light levelsIndoorlighting
Starlight
Moonlight Sunlight
Absolute rodthreshold
Conethreshold
Rod saturationbegins
Damaginglevels
Visual function
Cones that are optimized for higher light levels
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Photopic retinal illuminance(log phot td)
Scotopic retinal illuminance(log scot td)
-4.3
-3.9 -2.0 -0.1 1.5 3.1 4.9 6.9 8.9
-2.4 -0.5 1.1 2.7 4.5 6.5 8.5
Typical ambient light levelsIndoorlighting
Starlight
Moonlight Sunlight
PHOTOPIC
Absolute rodthreshold
Conethreshold
Rod saturationbegins
Damagepossible
SCOTOPICVisual function
MESOPIC
Scotopic levels(below cone threshold)
where rod vision functions alone.
A range of c. 103.5
Photopic levels(above rod saturation)
where cone vision functions alone.A range of > 106
Mesopic levelswhere rod and cone
vision function together.
A range of c. 103
Two systems
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Rod vision
Achromatic High sensitivity Poor detail and no
colour
Achromatic and chromatic Lower sensitivity Detail and good colour
Cone vision
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There are about 120 million rods. They are absent in the central 0.3 mm diameter area of the fovea, known as the fovea centralis.
There are only about 6 to 7 million cones. They are much more concentrated in the fovea.
Facts and figures
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Rod and cone distribution
0.3 mm of eccentricity is about 1 deg of visual angle
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At night, you have to look away from things to see
them in more detail
Rod density peaks at about 20 deg eccentricity
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During the day, you have to look at things directly to see them in detail
Cones peak at the centre of vision at 0 deg
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Cone distribution and photoreceptor mosaics
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Credit: Stuart Anstis, UCSD
Original photograph
Simulation of what we see when we fixate with cone vision…
The human visual system is a foveating system
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Credit: Stuart Anstis, UCSD
Visual acuity gets much poorer with eccentricity
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The foveal region is magnified in the cortical (brain) representation
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ROD AND CONE DIFFERENCES
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Rod and cone differences can be demonstrated using several techniques,
including perceptual measurements.
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Rod-cone threshold sensitivity differences
How might we measure them?
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Rod and cone threshold versus intensity curves
Rod-cone break
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Rods are about one thousand times more sensitive than cones. They can be
triggered by individual photons.
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Spectral sensitivity differences
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Threshold versus target wavelength measurements
Incremental flash
Space (x)
Inte
nsity
10-deg eccentric fixation
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Threshold versus target wavelength measurements
Incremental flash
Space (x)
Inte
nsity
10-deg eccentric fixation
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Threshold versus target wavelength measurements
Incremental flash
Space (x)
Inte
nsity
10-deg eccentric fixation
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Threshold versus target wavelength measurements
Incremental flash
Space (x)
Inte
nsity
10-deg eccentric fixation
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Rod and cone spectral sensitivity
curves
Plotted as “thresholds” versus wavelength
curves
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Plotted as the more conventional spectral
“sensitivity” curve
Sensitivity = 1/thresholdor
log (sensitivity) = -log(threshold)
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Wavelength (nm)
400 500 600 700
Log 1
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Rods
Approximate dark-adapted photoreceptor sensitivities.
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Simulated: Dick Lyon & Lewis Collard at Wikimedia
A change in the relative brightness of colours as the light level changes because of the difference in spectral sensitivity between rod and cone vision (e.g., reds and oranges become darker as rods take over)
The Purkinje Shift
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Rod-cone dark adaptation curves
Rod-cone break
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From Hecht, Haig & Chase (1937)
Cone plateau
Rods take much longer to recover after a bleach than cones
Rod-cone dark adaptation curves
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Temporal differences
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Suction electrode recording
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Greater temporal integration improves rod sensitivity (but reduces temporal acuity)
Photocurrent responses
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Rods
Cones
Photopically(cone) equated scale
FLICKER INVISIBLE
FLICKER VISIBLE
Highest flicker rates that can just be seen (c.f.f.)
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Spatial differences(visual acuity)
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Rod and cone visual acuities
RodsRods
König (1897)
The acuity here is defined as the reciprocal value of the size of the gap (measured in arc minutes) that can be reliably identified.
1/1=1
1/1.6=.63
1/.2=5
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Rod and cone visual acuities
Greater spatial integration improves rod sensitivity
but reduces acuity
The loss must be postreceptoral because
the rods are smaller than cones in the periphery)
RodsRods
König (1897)
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Rod vision is achromatic
Why?
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Vision at the photoreceptor stage is relatively simple because the output of
each photoreceptor is:
UNIVARIANT
What does univariant mean?
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Crucially, the effect of any absorbed photon is independentof its wavelength.
Rod
Once absorbed a photon produces the same change in photoreceptor output whatever its wavelength.
UNIVARIANCE
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Crucially, the effect of any absorbed photon is independentof its wavelength.
So, if you monitor the rod output, you can’t tell which “colour” of photon has been absorbed.
UNIVARIANCE
Rod
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Crucially, the effect of any absorbed photon is independentof its wavelength.
UNIVARIANCE
Rod
All the photoreceptor effectively does is to count photons.
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What does vary with wavelength is the probabilitythat a photon will be absorbed.
UNIVARIANCE
This is reflected in what is called a “spectral sensitivity function”.
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Wavelength (nm)
400 500 600 700 800Log
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CIE V'λ
Rod spectral sensitivity function(also known as the scotopic luminosity curve, CIE V′λ)
More sensitive
Less sensitive
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Wavelength (nm)
400 500 600 700 800
Log
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Linear sensitivity plotLogarithmic sensitivity plot
Wavelength (nm)
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CIE V'λ
Much more detail at lower sensitivities
10V’
log(V′)
Rod spectral sensitivity function (V′λ)
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Wavelength (nm)
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CIE V'λ
>>
> >> >
In order of rod sensitivity:
>>
Rod spectral sensitivity function (V′λ)
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Wavelength (nm)
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CIE V'λ
So, imagine you have four lights of the same intensity (indicated here by the height)
The green will look brightest, then blue, then yellow and lastly the red will be the dimmest
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Wavelength (nm)
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We can adjust the intensities to compensate for the sensitivity differences.
When this has been done, the four lights will look completely identical.
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Changes in light intensity are confounded with changes in colour (wavelength)
Rod
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A change in photoreceptor output can be caused by a change in intensity or by a change in colour. There is no way of telling which.
Each photoreceptor is therefore ‘colour blind’, and is unable to distinguish between changes in colour and changes in intensity.
Colour or intensity change??
UNIVARIANCE
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A consequence of univariance is that we are colour-blind when only one photoreceptor operates…
Examples: SCOTOPIC VISION, cone monochromacy
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With three cone photoreceptors, our colour vision is trichromatic…
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Log 10
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Cone spectral sensitivities
The probability of photon absorption varies differently with wavelength for the three cone types so that the cones have different spectral sensitivities…
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So, if each photoreceptor is colour-blind, how do we see colour?
Or to put it another way: How is colour encoded?
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A change in colour from green to red causes a relative increase in the L-cone output but causes a decrease in the M-cone output.
Thus, colour can be encoded by comparingthe outputs of different cone types…
TRICHROMACY
A change in colour from red to green causes a relative increase in the M-cone output but causes a decrease in the L-cone output.
M
M
L
L
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At the photoreceptors, colour is encoded by the relative cone outputs
Wavelength (nm)
400 450 500 550 600 650 700
Log 10
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S ML
Blue light
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Blue light
Green light
Wavelength (nm)
400 450 500 550 600 650 700
Log 10
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Colour is encoded by the relative cone outputs
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Wavelength (nm)
400 450 500 550 600 650 700
Log 10
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Colour is encoded by the relative cone outputs
Blue light
Red light
Green light
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Blue light Red light
White lightYellow light
Green light Purple light
Colour is encoded by the relative cone outputs
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POSTRECEPTORALCOLOUR VISION
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But what happens next (i.e., how is colour encoded after the photoreceptors)?
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Colour phenomenology
Which pairs of colours coexist in a single, uniform patch of colour?Which pairs never coexist?
WHY?
Can provide clues about how colours are processed after the photoreceptors…
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Reddish-yellows?
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Reddish-blues?
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Reddish-greens?
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Bluish-yellow?
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The colour opponent theory of Hering
is opposed to
is opposed to
R-G
Y-B
How might this be related to visual processing after the cones?
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Some ganglion cells are colour opponent
Imagine that this is the region of space that the cell “sees” in
the external world
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A red light falling on the central area excites the cell (makes it fire faster)
Some ganglion cells are colour opponent
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Some ganglion cells are colour opponent
A green light falling on the surround area inhibits the cell (makes it fire slower)
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Some ganglion cells are colour opponent
RED On-centreGREEN Off-surround
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Some ganglion cells are colour opponent
GREEN On-centreRED Off-surround
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Red-green colour opponency
Four variants
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RETINAL PROCESSING
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Signal processing in the retina
Why does so much processing occur in the retina?
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Main cell types in retina
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From Rodieck (1998)
Horizontal cells Lateral interactions
What sort of processing can be achieved by lateral interactions?
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From Rodieck (1998)
Bipolar cellsON (greener) and
OFF (redder) varieties
Parallel processing?
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From Rodieck (1998)
Amacrine cells
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From Rodieck (1998)
Ganglion cells ON and OFF varieties
Parallel processing?
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From Rodieck (1998)
midget bipolars
midget ganglion cell
Parvocellular
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midget ganglion cell
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These cells are chromatically opponent simply by virtue of the fact that they have single cone inputs to the centre of their receptive fields!
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Luminance pathways, which produce achromatic percepts, have been linked to the magnocellular stream.
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Magnocellular
From Rodieck (1998)
diffuse bipolar
parasol ganglion cells
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Chromatic pathways, which produce chromatic percepts, have been linked to the parvocellular and koniocellular retinal streams.
Luminance pathways, which produce achromatic percepts, have been linked to the magnocellular stream, but also depend on the parvocellular stream.
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From Rodieck (1998)
Parvocellular pathway:High spatial frequencies (spatial detail)Low temporal frequenciesChromaticLower contrast sensitivity
Magnocellular pathway:High temporal frequencies (motion/flicker)Low spatial frequenciesAchromaticHigher contrast sensitivity
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Physiological recordings
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We can investigate what a cell encodes by recording its response to visual stimulation and
so “map” its receptive field
David Hubel
Find the area in visual space to which the cell responds.
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David Hubel
And find out which types of stimuli optimally stimulate the cell.
We can investigate what a cell encodes by recording its response to visual stimulation and
so “map” its receptive field
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Neural codes and signal processing (centre-surround)
ON cell
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Neural codes and signal processing (centre-surround)
OFF cell
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Retinotopic maps
David Hubel
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From retina to brain…
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Geniculo-striate pathway
Hannula, Simons & Cohen, 2005
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Andrew Stockman
Visual pathways
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V1-V5
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Streams of processing…
Ventral stream – ‘What’ pathway specialized for object identification and recognition.
Dorsal stream – ‘Where’ pathway specialized for spatial location.