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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
Khani and Gollisch, Journal of Neurophysiology 2017
Diversity in spatial scope of contrast adaptation among mouse retinal ganglion cells. Retinal ganglion cells adapt [...]
Bemme et al., IOVS 2017
Differential Effects of HCN Channel Block on On and Off Pathways in the Retina as a Potential Cause [...]
Liu et al., Nature Communications 2017
Inference of neuronal functional circuitry with spike-triggered non-negative matrix factorization. Neurons in sensory systems often pool [...]
Krishnamoorthy et al., eLife 2017
Sensitivity to image recurrence across eye-movement-like image transitions through local serial inhibition in the retina. Standard [...]
Kühn and Gollisch, Journal of Neuroscience 2016
Joint Encoding of Object Motion and Motion Direction in the Salamander Retina. The processing of motion [...]
Liu and Gollisch, PLoS Computational Biology 2015
Spike-Triggered Covariance Analysis Reveals Phenomenological Diversity of Contrast Adaptation in the Retina. When visual contrast changes, [...]
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