VISUAL RESOLUTION AND RECEPTIVE-FIELD SIZE - EXAMINATION OF 2 KINDS OF CAT RETINAL GANGLION-CELL

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CLELAND, BG
HARDING, TH
TULUNAYKEESEY, U
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10.1126/science.472720
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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Intraocular recordings from brisk-sustained and brisk-transient ganglion cells in the cat's retina revealed a systematic increase in center size and decrease in spatial cut-off frequency with increasing distance from the area centralis. At any one eccentricity sizes of the centers of sustained and transient cells did not overlap, and the variation in cut-off frequency for each class was constrained to about one-half octave.
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