9780306412202-0306412209-Parallel Processing in the Visual System: The Classification of Retinal Ganglion Cells and its Impact on the Neurobiology of Vision (Perspectives in Vision Research)

Parallel Processing in the Visual System: The Classification of Retinal Ganglion Cells and its Impact on the Neurobiology of Vision (Perspectives in Vision Research)

ISBN-13: 9780306412202
ISBN-10: 0306412209
Edition: 1
Author: Jonathan Stone
Publication date: 1983
Publisher: Plenum Press
Format: Hardcover 454 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780306412202
ISBN-10: 0306412209
Edition: 1
Author: Jonathan Stone
Publication date: 1983
Publisher: Plenum Press
Format: Hardcover 454 pages

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Parallel Processing in the Visual System: The Classification of Retinal Ganglion Cells and its Impact on the Neurobiology of Vision (Perspectives in Vision Research) (ISBN-13: 9780306412202 and ISBN-10: 0306412209), written by authors Jonathan Stone, was published by Plenum Press in 1983. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Parallel Processing in the Visual System: The Classification of Retinal Ganglion Cells and its Impact on the Neurobiology of Vision (Perspectives in Vision Research) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.35.

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In the mid-sixties, John Robson and Christina Enroth-Cugell, without realizing what they were doing, set off a virtual revolution in the study of the visual system. They were trying to apply the methods of linear systems analysis (which were already being used to describe the optics of the eye and the psychophysical performance of the human visual system) to the properties of retinal ganglion cells in the cat. Their idea was to stimulate the retina with patterns of stripes and to look at the way that the signals from the center and the antagonistic surround of the respective field of each ganglion cell (first described by Stephen Kuffier) interact to generate the cell's responses. Many of the ganglion cells behaved themselves very nicely and John and Christina got into the habit (they now say) of calling them I (interesting) cells. However. to their annoyance, the majority of neurons they recorded had nasty, nonlinear properties that couldn't be predicted on the basis of simple summ4tion of light within the center and the surround. These uncoop erative ganglion cells, which Enroth-Cugell and Robson at first called D (dull) cells, produced transient bursts of impulses every time the distribution of light falling on the receptive field was changed, even if the total light flux was unaltered.

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