Center/surround organization of retinal bipolar cells: High correlation of fundamental responses of center and surround to sinusoidal contrasts

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 183-192

  Burkhardt, Dwight A ^a   Bartoletti, Theodore M ^b   Thoreson, Wallace B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Center surround receptive field; Contrast responses; Retinal bipolar cells

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SALAMANDER; SYNAPSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, OCULAR; AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LINEAR MODELS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79958859733     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523811000071     Document Type: Article

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