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GANGLION PATTERNS of Physiology, (Received for University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia publication October 15, 1964) INTRODUCTION THE RETINA ACTS AS A TRANSDUCER, converting the visual image into the firing patterns of a large number of optic fibers. By recording extracellularly from a retinal ganglion cell, one is able to study the action of this transducer without direct knowledge of its mechanism. In this paper we shall consider one aspect of this problem, namely the of retinal ganglion cells visual stimuli. This work follows a study in this laboratory of the of units in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat (9). The s obtained at that level were difficult to interpret, suggesting that a more fundamental interpretation awaited a similar study at the retinal level. Using small stationary spots of light, Kuffler (11) described the receptive fields of the cat retinal ganglion cells as composed of a central region which fired either to a light flashed on, or flashed off, surrounded by a region giving the opposite . This work clearly revealed how a retinal ganglion cell responds to visual stimulation of small delimited regions of its receptive field. There remains, however, the problem of how these cells
Journal of Neurophysiology – The American Physiological Society
Published: Sep 1, 1965
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