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How the contrast gain control modifies the frequency responses of cat retinal ganglion cells.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Shapley, Robert |
| Copyright Year | 1981 |
| Abstract | 1. A model is proposed for the effect of contrast on the first-order frequency responses of cat retinal ganglion cells. The model consists of several cascaded low pass filters ('leaky integrators') followed by a single stage of negative feed-back. 2. Values of time constants and gain of the components in this model were chosen to approximate (with least-squared deviation) experimentally measured first-order frequency responses. In the experiments used for the analysis, the visual stimulus was a sine grating modulated by a sum of sinusoids. 3. For both X cells and Y cells, the over-all gain and the time constants of the cascade of low pass filters were insensitive to contrast. 4. In all cells, the gain-bandwidth product of the negative feed-back loop was markedly increased with increasing contrast. 5. The effect of stimulation in the periphery of the receptive fields on the first-order frequency response to a centrally placed spot was identical to the effect of increasing contrast in the grating experiments. In all cases, the gain-bandwidth product of the negative feed-back loop was the only model parameter affected by peripheral stimulation. 6. A similar effect of non-linear summation was investigated for two bars located in the receptive field periphery. 7. This analysis of the contrast gain control mechanism is compared with other models of retinal function. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jdvicto/pdfs/shvi81.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 7320887v1 |
| Volume Number | 318 |
| Journal | The Journal of physiology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Cascade Device Component Gain Ganglion cell Population Parameter Retina Retinal Ganglion Cells Short Interspersed Nucleotide Elements visual stimulus |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
