ON–OFF retinal ganglion cells temporally encode OFF/ON sequence
| Autor: | Hiroyuki Matsunobu, Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Koichi Goto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Retinal Ganglion Cells Cognitive Neuroscience Action Potentials Coturnix ENCODE Synaptic Transmission Retinal ganglion chemistry.chemical_compound Artificial Intelligence biology.animal Reaction Time medicine Animals Visual Pathways Vision Ocular Sequence (medicine) Retina biology Neural Inhibition Retinal Quail Light intensity medicine.anatomical_structure chemistry Neuronal circuits Female Nerve Net Neuroscience Photic Stimulation |
| Zdroj: | Neural Networks. 14:611-615 |
| ISSN: | 0893-6080 |
| Popis: | While the functions of ON and OFF retinal ganglion cells have been intensively investigated, that of ON-OFF cells has not. In the present study, the temporal properties of spike trains emitted from ON-OFF cells in response to randomly flickering or multiphase ramp stimuli were examined in the Japanese quail. The results indicate that the firing of ON-spikes was influenced by the recent firing of OFF-spikes, and vice versa. As a result of this interaction, OFF/ON sequence of light intensity change was encoded with a spike pair with an interval of 20 ms, indicating that temporal coding is utilized in the vertebrate visual system as early as the retina. Thus, the present results suggest that retinal neuronal circuits may detect specific sequential features of stimuli. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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