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Recording electrodes were implanted in the lateral geniculate body and striate cortex of rabbits and cats. Primary evoked responses to a brief light flash were recorded from the two locations in the unanesthetized animal. Both at geniculate and cortical levels a power function was found to express satisfactorily in the two species the relationship of response amplitude to illuminance, although a log function generally provided almost as good a fit for the data.
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1. This research was supported by Grants NB 04133 and K3-MH-25, 082 from the U.S. Public Health Service.
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Fuster, J.M., Sierra, G. Amplitude of visual evoked potentials as a function of illuminance. Psychon Sci 12, 105–106 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331219
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