Ambient illumination switches contrast preference of specific retinal processing streams

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 540-550

  Pearson, James T ^a   Kerschensteiner, Daniel ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient illumination; Contrast encoding; Multielectrode array; Retina; Switch circuit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; ILLUMINATION; LUMINANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA ROD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; MICROELECTRODE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROELECTRODES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84937692504     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00360.2015     Document Type: Article

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