Fred Rieke

 

Signal Detection Theory + Rods/Photons

demos and tutorials

sdtTutorial
nonlinearPoolingTutorial

papers

Photon Detection

Lecture outline
Lecture slides (pdf)

Single-photon detection by rod cells of the retina.
Fred Rieke and Denis Baylor, Reviews of Modern Physics, 1998.    [pdf]

Nonlinear Signal Transfer from Mouse Rods to Bipolar Cells and Implications for Visual Sensitivity.
Greg Field and Fred Rieke, Neuron, 2002.    [pdf]

Counting every quantum.
B. Sakitt. J. Physiol., 223:131--150, 1972. [pdf]

Energy, quanta and vision.
Hecht, S., S. Shlaer, and M. Pirenne. J. Gen. Physiol., 25:819--840, 1942. [pdf]

Neural Coding

Lectures slides

Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code.
Rieke, Warland, de Ruyter van Stevenink, and Bialek. MIT Press, 1997.
[Copies of book is in Banbury library]

 

links

Rieke's homepage