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- Title
Balanced interactions in ganglion-cell receptive fields.
- Authors
GRANDA, A.M.; DEARWORTH Jr., J.R.; SUBRAMANIAM, B.
- Abstract
Receptive fields of retinal ganglion cells in turtle have excitatory and inhibitory components that are balanced along the dimensions of wavelength, functional ON and OFF responses, and spatial assignments of center and surround. These components were analyzed by spectral light adaptations and by the glutamate agonist, 2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (APB). Extracellular recordings to stationary and moving spots of light were used to map changes in receptive fields. ON spike counts minus OFF spike counts, derived from flashed stationary light spots, quantified functional shifts by calculating normalized mean response modulations. The data show that receptive fields are not static, but rather are dynamic arrangements which depend on linked, antagonistic balances among the three dimensions of wavelength, ON and OFF response functions, and center/surround areas.
- Publication
Visual Neuroscience, 1999, Vol 16, Issue 2, p319
- ISSN
0952-5238
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/s0952523899162126