RT Book, Section A1 Kandel, Eric R. A1 Koester, John D. A1 Mack, Sarah H. A1 Siegelbaum, Steven A. SR Print(0) ID 1192995753 T1 Low-Level Visual Processing: The Retina T2 Principles of Neural Science, 6e YR 2021 FD 2021 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781259642234 LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1192995753 RD 2024/03/29 AB THE RETINA IS THE BRAIN’S WINDOW on the world. All visual experience is based on information processed by this neural circuit in the eye. The retina’s output is conveyed to the brain by just one million optic nerve fibers, and yet almost half of the cerebral cortex is used to process these signals. Visual information lost in the retina—by design or deficiency—can never be recovered. Because retinal processing sets fundamental limits on what can be seen, there is great interest in understanding how the retina functions.