Abstract
The mammalian retina extracts a set of 12 different "movies" from the visual scene and send each movie to higher visual centers. These movies exist in physically distinct strata of the inner retina, embodied in the dendritic arborizations of a dozen different ganglion cell types. The dendritic arbors are stacked in discrete layers throughout the inner retina where they are synaptically contacted by excitatory and inhibitory connections from a variety of different cell types. This paper outlines the synaptic and physical structure of these layers, and follows the image of a face through the retina from photoreceptors to final output, graphically displaying the transformations that take place as the image is processed by different neural structures.
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