Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany, have discovered that nerve cells in the eye often process natural visual stimuli from the environment jointly in cell groups ...
Nerve cells in the retina work together to recognize contrast and movement, challenging the efficient coding hypothesis, which suggests minimal simultaneous nerve cell activity to conserve energy.
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