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  • Title: A public confession: the retina trumpets its failed predictions.
    Author: Holy TE.
    Journal: Neuron; 2007 Sep 20; 55(6):831-2. PubMed ID: 17880889.
    Abstract:
    To compensate for delays of phototransduction, the retina anticipates the future by extrapolating the position of a moving object. But what if the object's motion changes, and the extrapolation is wrong? In this issue of Neuron, Schwartz and colleagues show that these prediction failures trigger a large burst of firing that helps to rapidly correct the neural representation of the object's new position.
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