@poster{4669,
  title = {Do We Know What the Early Visual System Computes?},
  journal = {31st G{\"o}ttingen Neurobiology Conference},
  abstract = {Decades of research provided much data and insights into the mechanisms of the early visual system.
  Currently, however, there is great controversy on whether these findings can provide us with a thorough
  functional understanding of what the early visual system does, or formulated differently, of what it computes.
  At the Society for Neuroscience meeting 2005 in Washington, a symposium was held on the question "Do we
  know that the early visual system does", which was accompanied by a widely regarded publication in the
  Journal of Neuroscience. Yet, that discussion was rather specialized as it predominantly addressed the
  question of how well neural responses in retina, LGN, and cortex can be predicted from noise stimuli, but did
  not emphasize the question of whether we understand what the function of these early visual areas is. Here we
  will concentrate on this neuro-computational aspect of vision. Experts from neurobiology, psychophysics and
  computational neuroscience will present studies which approach this question from different viewpoints and promote a critical discussion of whether we actually understand what early areas contribute to the processing and perception of visual information.},
  volume = {31},
  pages = {352},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  month = mar,
  year = {2007},
  slug = {4669},
  author = {Bethge, M. and Kayser, C.},
  month_numeric = {3}
}