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Effect of ambient illumination on the spatial properties of the center and surround of Y-cell receptive fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

J. B. Troy ,
J. K. Oh  and
CH. Enroth-Cugell
J. B. Troy
Affiliation:
Departments of Biomedical Engineering & Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston
J. K. Oh
Affiliation:
Departments of Biomedical Engineering & Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston
CH. Enroth-Cugell
Affiliation:
Departments of Biomedical Engineering & Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston
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Abstract

The primary goal of this study was to expand the description of the filtering properties of the Y-cell receptive field, byquantitatively characterizing the spatial filtering properties of the receptive field’s center-and-surround components as a function of adapting light level. A range of more than five orders of magnitude in retinal illuminance were covered, including the vast majority of the cat’s functional range of vision.

Recordings were taken from optic tract fibers of Y cells in cats under general anesthesia. Sinusoidal gratings and a stimulus designed to selectively probe the properties of the surround mechanism were used. The cells’ responses to these stimuli were fit to a Gaussian center-surround receptive-field model, in which six parameters define the properties of the center and surround. Fits were made independently to data collected at each light level and changes in the values of the model’s parameters with illuminance are reported. A set of equations that summarize the changes in parameter values is given. From these summary equations, reasonable estimates of the parameters’ values can be determined across a wide range of illuminances. Hence, a quantitative model of the spatial properties of the center and surround of the Y-cell receptive field can now be derived from these equations for most of the levels of retinal illuminance experienced by a Y cell. The consistency between the description provided by our equations and results from earlier work is considered.

Keywords

CatY cellIlluminance levelReceptive fieldModel
Type
Research Articles
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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , July 1993 , pp. 753 - 764
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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