How Do the Retina’s Neurons Encode? The Answer’s Coming!

"The moment we open our eyes, we perceive the world with apparent ease. But the question of how neurons in the retina encode what we 'see' has been a tricky one. A key obstacle to understanding how our brain functions is that its components - neurons - respond in highly nonlinear ways to complex stimuli, making stimulus-response relationships extremely difficult to discern," starts the MedicalNewsToday
post. "Now a team of physicists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has developed a general mathematical framework that makes optimal use of limited measurements, bringing them a step closer to deciphering the 'language of the brain.'"