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J Physiol Vol 341 pp 279-307
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Spatio-temporal interactions in cat retinal ganglion cells showing linear spatial summation.

 C Enroth-Cugell, J G Robson, D E Schweitzer-Tong and A B Watson

The spatio-temporal characteristics of cat retinal ganglion cells showing linear summation have been studied by measuring both magnitude and phase of the responses of these cells to drifting or sinusoidally contrast-modulated sinusoidal grating patterns. It has been demonstrated not only that X cells behave approximately linearly when responding with amplitudes of less than about 10 impulses/sec to stimuli of low contrast but also that cells of another type with larger receptive field centres (Q cells) behave approximately linearly under the same conditions. These Q cells appear to form a homogeneous group which is probably a subset of the tonic W cells (Stone & Fukuda, 1974) or sluggish centre-surround cells (Cleland & Levick, 1974). The over-all spatio-temporal frequency characteristics of cells showing linear spatial summation are not separable in space and time. The form of the spatial frequency responsivity function of these cells depends upon the temporal frequency at which it is measured while the temporal phase of their resonse measured at any constant temporal frequency depends upon the spatial frequency of the stimulus. The behaviour of X and Q cells is quite well explained by an extension of the model in which signals from centre and surround mechanisms with radially Gaussian weighting functions are summed to provide the drive to the retinal ganglion cell. While the general form of the temporal frequency response characteristics of these ganglion cells are probably provided by the characteristics of elements common to the centre and surround pathways, the spatio-temporal interactions can be explained by assuming that the surround signal is delayed relative to the centre signal by a few milliseconds.




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