Multiple Mechanisms for Contrast Adaptation in the Retina

An Energy Budget for Signaling in the Grey Matter of the Brain

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Adaptation of retinal processing to image contrast and spatial scale

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The effect of contrast on the transfer properties of cat retinal ganglion cells.

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Fast and Slow Contrast Adaptation in Retinal Circuitry

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Temporal Contrast Adaptation in the Input and Output Signals of Salamander Retinal Ganglion Cells

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Adaptation to Temporal Contrast in Primate and Salamander Retina

Chander, D., & Chichilnisky, E. J. (2001) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.21-24-09904.2001 · Cited by 240 · see citing works

The dynamics of the cat retinal X cell centre.

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The dynamics of primate M retinal ganglion cells

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Temporal Contrast Adaptation in Salamander Bipolar Cells

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Spatial scale and cellular substrate of contrast adaptation by retinal ganglion cells

Brown, S. P., & Masland, R. H. (2001) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/82888 · Cited by 130 · see citing works

Contrast gain control in the lower vertebrate retinas [published erratum appears in J Gen Physiol 1995 Aug;106(2):following 388]

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Normalization as a canonical neural computation

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Do We Know What the Early Visual System Does?

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Independence of luminance and contrast in natural scenes and in the early visual system

Mante, V., Frazor, R. A., Bonin, V., Geisler, W. S., & Carandini, M. (2005) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn1556 · Cited by 374 · see citing works

Mechanisms underlying gain modulation in the cortex

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The Suppressive Field of Neurons in Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

Bonin, V., Mante, V., & Carandini, M. (2005) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.3562-05.2005 · Cited by 239 · see citing works

Different Circuits for ON and OFF Retinal Ganglion Cells Cause Different Contrast Sensitivities

Zaghloul, K. A., Boahen, K. A., & Demb, J. B. (2003) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.23-07-02645.2003 · Cited by 232 · see citing works

Functional circuitry of visual adaptation in the retina

Demb, J. B. (2008) · The Journal of Physiology · doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2008.156638 · Cited by 172 · see citing works

Functional Mechanisms Shaping Lateral Geniculate Responses to Artificial and Natural Stimuli

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Presynaptic Mechanism for Slow Contrast Adaptation in Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cells

Manookin, M. B., & Demb, J. B. (2006) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2006.03.039 · Cited by 117 · see citing works

Contrast Adaptation in Subthreshold and Spiking Responses of Mammalian Y-Type Retinal Ganglion Cells

Zaghloul, K. A., Boahen, K. A., & Demb, J. B. (2005) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2782-04.2005 · Cited by 92 · see citing works

A neural model of surface perception: Lightness, anchoring, and filling-in

Grossberg, S., & Hong, S. (2006) · Spatial Vision · doi:10.1163/156856806776923399 · Cited by 86 · see citing works

Cellular Basis for Contrast Gain Control over the Receptive Field Center of Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cells

Beaudoin, D. L., Borghuis, B. G., & Demb, J. B. (2007) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4610-06.2007 · Cited by 82 · see citing works

The Operating Point of the Cortex: Neurons as Large Deviation Detectors

Ringach, D. L., & Malone, B. J. (2007) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1048-07.2007 · Cited by 55 · see citing works

Ambient Light Regulates Sodium Channel Activity to Dynamically Control Retinal Signaling

Ichinose, T., & Lukasiewicz, P. D. (2007) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.0183-07.2007 · Cited by 49 · see citing works

Intrinsic Mechanisms for Adaptive Gain Rescaling in Barrel Cortex

Díaz-Quesada, M., & Maravall, M. (2008) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4931-07.2008 · Cited by 48 · see citing works

A neural model of 3D shape-from-texture: Multiple-scale filtering, boundary grouping, and surface filling-in

Grossberg, S., Kuhlmann, L., & Ennio Mingolla, B. (2007) · Vision Research · doi:10.1016/j.visres.2006.10.024 · Cited by 44 · see citing works

Genetic Control of Circuit Function:Vsx1andIrx5Transcription Factors Regulate Contrast Adaptation in the Mouse Retina

Kerschensteiner, D., Liu, H., Cheng, C., Demas, J., Cheng, S. H., Hui, C., Chow, R. L., & Wong, R. (2008) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4784-07.2008 · Cited by 37 · see citing works

Nitric Oxide Mediates Activity-Dependent Plasticity of Retinal Bipolar Cell Output via S-Nitrosylation

Tooker, R. E., Lipin, M. Y., Leuranguer, V., Rózsa, É., Bramley, J. R., Harding, J. L., Reynolds, M. M., & Vı́gh, J. (2013) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2792-13.2013 · Cited by 36 · see citing works

A Computational Framework for Realistic Retina Modeling

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Long-Term Plasticity Mediated by mGluR1 at a Retinal Reciprocal Synapse

Vı́gh, J., Li, G., Hull, C., & von Gersdorff, H. (2005) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2005.03.027 · Cited by 32 · see citing works

Diversity in spatial scope of contrast adaptation among mouse retinal ganglion cells

Khani, M. H., & Gollisch, T. (2017) · Journal of Neurophysiology · doi:10.1152/jn.00529.2017 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

The Functional Organization of Vertebrate Retinal Circuits for Vision

Baden, T., Schubert, T., Berens, P., & Euler, T. (2018) · Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.013.68 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Two distinct processes are evident in rat cone flicker ERG responses at low and high temporal frequencies

Qian, H., Shah, M. R., Alexander, K. R., & Ripps, H. (2008) · Experimental Eye Research · doi:10.1016/j.exer.2008.04.011 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

A neural response-based model to predict discomfort glare from luminance image

Safdar, M., Luo, M. R., Mughal, M. F., Kuai, S.-G., Yang, Y. L., Fu, L., & Zhu, X. (2016) · Lighting Research & Technology · doi:10.1177/1477153516675910 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

The role of spiking nonlinearity in contrast gain control and information transmission

Yu, Y., Potetz, B. R., & Lee, T. S. (2004) · Vision Research · doi:10.1016/j.visres.2004.09.024 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Variance normalisation: a key mechanism for temporal adaptation in natural vision?

Buiatti, M., & van Vreeswijk, C. (2003) · Vision Research · doi:10.1016/s0042-6989(03)00312-2 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

A Machine-Learning Approach for Automatic Grape-Bunch Detection Based on Opponent Colors

Bruni, V., Dominijanni, G., & Vitulano, D. (2023) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su15054341 · Cited by 9 · see citing works

Sensory Consciousness is Experienced through Amplification of Sensory Stimuli via Lateral Inhibition

Jerath, R., Cearley, S. M., Paladiya, R. D., & Barnes, V. A. (2017) · World Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.4236/wjns.2017.73020 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Decoupling functional mechanisms of adaptive encoding

Lesica, N. A., & Stanley, G. B. (2006) · Network Computation in Neural Systems · doi:10.1080/09548980500328409 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

Adaptive Colour Contrast Coding in the Salamander Retina Efficiently Matches Natural Scene Statistics

Vasserman, G., Schneidman, E., & Segev, R. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079163 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Effects of the jimpy mutation on mouse retinal structure and function

Hovhannisyan, A., Benkner, B., Biesemeier, A., Schraermeyer, U., Kukley, M., & Münch, T. A. (2015) · The Journal of Comparative Neurology · doi:10.1002/cne.23818 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Impact of adaptation time on contrast sensitivity

Dörte Apelt, A., Strasburger, H., Klein, J., & Preim, B. (2010) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.845241 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Information Processing in the Retina

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LOCALIZING OBJECTS IN SPACE AND TIME: A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL BASED ON A PREDICTIVE MECHANISM

Carlini, A., Actis-Grosso, R., & Pozzo, T. (2010) · Proceedings of Fechner Day

Rod-Cone convergence in the retina.

Muchungi, K. (2015) · Surrey Research Insight Open Access (The University of Surrey)

Neural Correlates of Gain Control in Drosophila and Humans

Alamri, S. A. H. (2016) · White Rose eTheses Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)

Temporal and Spatial Dependence of Adaptation on Ganglion Cells

Amin, A., Moazzezi, R., & Werblin, F. S. (2013) · Berkeley Scientific Journal · doi:10.5070/bs3162016107

Field-Sensitive Axon Initial Segment Polarization by Ionic Direct Current Dissociates Gain Modulation from Temporal Structure in Cortical CircuitsPreprint

Wang, R., & Fridman, G. Y. (2025) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2025.06.19.660597

Neural Circuits and Synapses for Early Stage Visual Processing.

Manookin, M. B. (2009) · Deep Blue (University of Michigan)

Adaptation of visual responses in degenerating rd10 and healthy mouse retinas during ongoing electrical stimulation

Jalligampala, A., Shabani, H., Zrenner, E., Rathbun, D. L., & Hosseinzadeh, Z. (2026) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2026.1730445

Fast and Slow Contrast Adaptation in Retinal Circuitry

Baccus, S. A., & Meister, M. (2002) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(02)01050-4 · Cited by 515 · see citing works

Functional circuitry of visual adaptation in the retina

Demb, J. B. (2008) · The Journal of Physiology · doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2008.156638 · Cited by 172 · see citing works

Cellular mechanisms for visual adaptation

Demb, J. B. (2010) · Journal of Vision · doi:10.1167/6.13.1 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Spatial scale and cellular substrate of contrast adaptation by retinal ganglion cells

Brown, S. P., & Masland, R. H. (2001) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/82888 · Cited by 130 · see citing works

Luminance and contrast adaptation of the inner retina

Teixeira, S. C. (2015) · edoc (University of Basel) · doi:10.5451/unibas-006361487