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A dynamic model of the vertebrate retina

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In this paper a mathematical model of the retina was proposed to clarify the spatio-temporal information processing mechanism in the retina of vertebrates. In order to explain spatio-temporal characteristics of an on-center receptive field of a ganglion cell, excitatory and inhibitory cell layers were introduced of which time lags increased with the lateral distance from a point of stimulation. The characteristics of this model were found to agree well with the physiological data: e.g., this model shows on-response to the input stimulus given on the center, off-response to the input on the surround, and on-off response to the input on the border between on- and off-response regions of the on-center field.

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    M. Yasuda

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Yasuda, M. A dynamic model of the vertebrate retina. Kybernetik 9, 26–30 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00272557

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