Figures
Putting the pieces together.
An image of rod and cone photoreceptors in the primate retina is divided into several interlocking pieces. As reported in this issue of PLoS Biology (see Gauthier et al., e1000063), retinal ganglion cells perform a similar division of the visual scene represented by the photoreceptors. Each ganglion cell samples from an irregularly shaped region of space. These regions interlock like puzzle pieces to represent completely the images we see.
Image Credit: Jeffrey Gauthier (Salk Institute for Biological Studies).
Citation: (2009) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 7(4) April 2009. PLoS Biol 7(4): ev07.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v07.i04
Published: April 28, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Gauthier et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
An image of rod and cone photoreceptors in the primate retina is divided into several interlocking pieces. As reported in this issue of PLoS Biology (see Gauthier et al., e1000063), retinal ganglion cells perform a similar division of the visual scene represented by the photoreceptors. Each ganglion cell samples from an irregularly shaped region of space. These regions interlock like puzzle pieces to represent completely the images we see.
Image Credit: Jeffrey Gauthier (Salk Institute for Biological Studies).