Responses and receptive fields of amacrine cells and ganglion cells in the salamander retina

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 614-622

  Zhang, Ai Jun ^a   Wu, Samuel M ^a  

^a CULLEN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Center surround antagonistic receptive fields; Dendritic fields; Electrical coupling; Relative rod cone inputs; Response waveforms; Spatial information processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA ROD; SALAMANDER; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; URODELA; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 76549094369     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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