Receptive Fields of Rabbit Retinal Ganglion Cells

Wr, Levick

doi:10.1097/00006324-196506000-00003

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“…The three groups of units, ON, OFF and ON-OFF were recorded directly from the retina by ~RANIT (1947) but detailed analysis of the retinal units has only been presented recently (BARLOW, HILL & LEVICK, 1964: BARLOW & LEVICK, 1965: LEVICK, 1965: BARLOW & OYSXER, 1967and OYSTER, 1968. None of the results reported here are in conflict with their more extensivse findings.…”

Section: Comparison Of Single Unit Observations With the Literature Omentioning

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“…rapid movement, shadows -t-small moving objects, in the corresponding region of the visual field. LEVICK (1965) has described the large field off units as 'alarm units'. In view of the preceeding demonstration of the involvement of the superior colliculus in orientation to stimuli it appears appropriate that the organ should possess in its upper layers an 'early warning system' -the large field units constitute the fast fibre population of the optic tract (LEDERMAN & NOELL, 1968) --fed by 'alarm' units situated all over the retina (mJGHES, 1968).…”

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Topographical relationships between the anatomy and physiology of the rabbit visual system

Hughes¹

1971

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Section: Comparison Of Single Unit Observations With the Literature Omentioning

confidence: 65%

Section: Comparative Aspects Of Superior Colliculus Unitsmentioning

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Topographical relationships between the anatomy and physiology of the rabbit visual system

Hughes¹

1971

Doc Ophthalmol

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“…It is conceivable that the RG A1 and RG A2 cells have differences in response characteristics. Levick (1965) described a class of fast movement detector. One of the morphological subtypes described here may correspond to the fast movement detector, but confirmation requires further electrophysiological experiments.…”

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Large‐scale morphological survey of mouse retinal ganglion cells

Sun

2002

J of Comparative Neurology

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Five hundred twenty ganglion cells in an isolated whole-mount preparation of the mouse retina were labeled using the "DiOlistic" method (Gan et al. [2000] Neuron 27:219-225) and were classified according to their morphological properties. Tungsten particles coated with a lipophilic dye (DiI) were propelled into the whole-mount retina using a gene gun. When a dye-coated particle contacted the cell membrane, the entire cell was labeled. The ganglion cells were classified into four groups based on their soma size, dendritic field size, and pattern and level of stratification. Broadly monostratified cells were classified into three groups: RG(A) cells (large soma, large dendritic field), RG(B) cells (small to medium-sized soma, small to medium-sized dendritic field), and RG(C) cells (small to medium-sized size soma, medium-sized to large dendritic field). Bistratified cells were classified as RG(D). This study represents the most complete morphological classification of mouse retinal ganglion cells available to date and provides a foundation for further understanding of the correlation of physiology and morphology and ganglion cell function with genetically manipulated animals.

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“…Monkey cortex was found to be organized in a way quite similar to that described for the cat (Hubel & Wiesel, 1968). The pigeon retina (Maturana & Frenk, 1963), goldfish tectum (Jacobson & Gaze, 1964), and rabbit ganglion cell (Levick, 1965(Levick, , 1967) also seem to be organized to discriminate orientation.…”

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Perception and discrimination as a function of stimulus orientation: The "oblique effect" in man and animals.

Appelle¹

1972

Psychological Bulletin

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Performance for a large variety of perceptual tasks is superior for stimuli aligned in horizontal or vertical orientations, as compared to stimuli in oblique orientations. This phenomenon appears in the human adult and child, and throughout the animal kingdom. Neurophysiological mechanisms for orientation analysis have been found in the higher visual pathways of many animals, and the suggestive evidence is compelling that these mechanisms underly the orientation preferences reported behaviorally. This paper reviews both the behavioral and neurophysiological studies of orientation preferences, and suggests additional methods for determining the cause of these effects. Stimulus orientation has received increased attention in the past decade from neurophysiological studies of visual pathways. These studies have located mechanisms for orientation analysis in single cells of mammalian visual systems. The study of stimulus orientation, however, has a long history in the behavioral and psychophysical literature. A persistent feature of these latter studies has been a small but consistent superiority in performance when visual stimuli are horizontal or vertical, as opposed to oblique. (For convenience, this phenomenon is subsequently referred to as the oblique effect.) The origin of the oblique effect has not been precisely determined, but a relationship between the behavioral results and the neurophysiological data is suggestive. This paper deals with the oblique effect in two parts. First, it reviews the behavioral and psychophysical studies of orientation preferences. Second, it discusses the neurophysiological substrates of orientation perception. The first section helps define the oblique effect by elaborating on the many forms in which it appears. The second section amplifies the first by evaluating the neurophysiological findings in respect to these orientation preferences.

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Receptive Fields of Rabbit Retinal Ganglion Cells

Cited by 33 publications

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Topographical relationships between the anatomy and physiology of the rabbit visual system

Topographical relationships between the anatomy and physiology of the rabbit visual system

Large‐scale morphological survey of mouse retinal ganglion cells

Perception and discrimination as a function of stimulus orientation: The "oblique effect" in man and animals.

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