A model of Weber and noise gain control in the retina of the toad Bufo marinus

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2433-2453

  Rudd, Michael E ^a   Brown, Lawrence G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bufo; Computational model; Gain control; Ganglion cell; Noise; Spike generation

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA ROD; SPIKE; TOAD; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; BUFO MARINUS; GANGLIA, SENSORY; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RETINA; RODS (RETINA);

EID: 0031239596     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00321-5     Document Type: Article

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