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We are part of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Medical Center Göttingen. Our research focuses on the question how the neural network of the retina in the eye processes and encodes visual information. In our work, we tightly combine experiments and theory. We record the activity of neurons in isolated retinas while stimulating the photoreceptors with light patterns, and we use modeling and statistics to understand the relationship between visual stimuli and neural responses.
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Recent News
The paper on filter-models of suppression in the retina by Neda Shahidi and others has appeared in PLoS Computational Biology. Congratulations!
Our paper in Nature from earlier this year, spearheaded by Dimos Karamanlis, was selected as the Gö-VIP (=“Göttingen Very Important Publication”) in the 34th Gö-VIP round under “Basic Science”. Congratulations! List of Gö-VIPs with summaries in German here.
A talk and several posters from the group coming up at the Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society!
Press release on our recent paper in Nature! See here in German or here in English.
Our paper on redundant retinal coding under natural stimuli and the connection to nonlinear receptive fields by Dimos Karamanlis and others has come out in Nature. Congratulations!
Prof. Dr. Tim Gollisch
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Selected Recent Publications
Liu et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2022
Simple model for encoding natural images by retinal ganglion cells with nonlinear spatial integration. A central [...]
Karamanlis and Gollisch, Journal of Neuroscience 2021
Nonlinear spatial integration underlies the diversity of retinal ganglion cell responses to natural images. How neurons [...]
Schreyer and Gollisch, Neuron 2021
Nonlinear spatial integration in retinal bipolar cells shapes the encoding of artificial and natural stimuli. The [...]
Khani and Gollisch, Nature Communications 2021
Linear and nonlinear chromatic integration in the mouse retina. The computations performed by a neural circuit [...]
Rozenblit and Gollisch, Semin Cell Dev Biol 2020
What the salamander eye has been telling the vision scientist’s brain. Salamanders have been habitual residents [...]
Kühn and Gollisch, Neuron 2019
Activity Correlations between Direction-Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells Synergistically Enhance Motion Decoding from Complex Visual Scenes. Neurons [...]
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