Basic mammalian retinal effects on the prototype complex cell CNN universal machine

Some parallel channels of the mammalian retina are illustrated schematically. The different decomposition possibilities are indicated by the cyan blocks. The different neuron types in the retina are organized into two-dimensional stmta modeled with CNN layers, which are represented by the spheres. A neuron in a given layer effects another neuron in another layer through synapses while the arrows represent the connections. The layers have different time and space constants and the synapses produce non-linear transfer functions.