1Department of Neurobiology, Research School of Biological Sciences, P. O. Box 475, Canberra City, A. C. T. 2601, Australia
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Abstract The contrast-response function of a class of first order intemeurons in the fly's compound eye approximates to the cumulative probability distribution of contrast levels in natural scenes. Elementary information theory shows that this matching enables the neurons to encode contrast fluctuations most efficiently.