Retinal bipolar cells: Contrast encoding for sinusoidal modulation and steps of luminance contrast

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 883-893

  Burkhardt, Dwight A ^a   Fahey, Patrick K ^a   Sikora, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cones; Contrast encoding; Horizontal cells; Retina; Retinal bipolar cells; Tiger salamander

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DEPOLARIZATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LUMINANCE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SALAMANDER; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WAVEFORM;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; LIGHT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA;

EID: 15944362508     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380421608X     Document Type: Article

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