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Annu Rev Vis Sci
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Sensory systems continuously mold themselves to the widely varying contexts in
which they must operate. Studies of these adaptations have played a long and
central role in vision science. In part this is because the specific adaptations
remain a powerful tool for dissecting vision, by exposing the mechanisms that are
adapting. That is, "if it adapts, it's there." Many insights about vision have
come from using adaptation in this way, as a method. A second important trend has
been the realization that the processes of adaptation are themselves essential to
how vision works, and thus are likely to operate at all levels. That is, "if it's
there, it adapts." This has focused interest on the mechanisms of adaptation as
the target rather than the probe. Together both approaches have led to an
emerging insight of adaptation as a fundamental and ubiquitous coding strategy
impacting all aspects of how we see.