Webvision: The Organization of the Retina and Visual System
by H. Kolb, E. Fernandez, R. Nelson
Publisher: National Library of Medicine 2008
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The purpose of this electronic tutorial is to summarize the recent advances and to describe our present understanding, based primarily on anatomic investigations, of the neural organization of the mammalian retina. The authors tried to present material at the cutting edge of the present knowledge, but in a simple way that is accessible to both expert and non-expert people.
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