Peter Sterling is in the Department of Neuroscience,
University of Pennsylvania, 123 Anatomy/Chemistry Bldg.,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6058, USA.
peter@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
By simultaneously recording from retinal ganglion cells while stimulating
a single cone, Chichilnisky and Baylor demonstrate that the strength of physiological
connections within a retinal microcircuit is linearly proportional to the
number of anatomically defined synapses.
