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Physiology and Morphology of the Retina

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Frog Neurobiology

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The frog retina is of considerable neurobiological interest because many of its ganglion cells demonstrate a complexity of response behavior that is comparable to the behavior of neurons in the visual cortex of monkey and cat. That is, many ganglion cells in frog respond better to edges and to movement than to stationary spots of light (Maturana et al., 1960; Lettvin et al., 1961; Grüsser-Cornehls et al., 1963). In cat and monkey, on the other hand, most ganglion cells respond vigorously to small spots of light projected onto the retina, and not until one records from neurons in the visual cortex are edges and movement preferred stimuli (Hubel and Wiesel, 1962). In addition, there are features of the responses of frog ganglion cells, such as erasability, that have not as yet been observed anywhere in the mammalian visual system (Maturana et al., 1960).

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Dowling, J.E. (1976). Physiology and Morphology of the Retina. In: Frog Neurobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66316-1_9

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