{"ID":2864410,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17820","arxiv_id":"2510.17820","title":"The Standard Model of the Retina","abstract":"The scientific study of the retina has reached a remarkable state of completion. We can now explain many aspects of early visual processing based on a relatively simple model of neural circuitry in the retina. The same model, with different parameters, produces a great diversity of neural computations. In this article I lay out what that \"standard model\" is and how it accounts for such a diversity of phenomena. The emergence of such a powerful standard model is unique in systems neuroscience, and I consider what conditions made it possible. The standard model now serves as a baseline from which to organize future retinal research, either by testing the model's assumptions directly, or by identifying phenomena that remain unexplained.","short_abstract":"The scientific study of the retina has reached a remarkable state of completion. We can now explain many aspects of early visual processing based on a relatively simple model of neural circuitry in the retina. The same model, with different parameters, produces a great diversity of neural computations. In this article...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17820","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.17820v1","authors":"[\"Markus Meister\"]","published":"2025-09-28T17:33:24Z","proceeding":"q-bio.NC","tasks":"[\"q-bio.NC\"]","methods":"[\"Generative Adversarial Network\"]","has_code":false}