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The usual way to describe visual neurons is to map their receptive fields and to assign them a name related to their response dynamics. Therefore, for example, one speaks of a “phasic, on center, off surround unit”. These properties are often then explained in terms of lateral nervous interactions. Both the connectivity and the response dynamics of the various interneurons are important. For instance, the properties of a given vertebrate ganglion cell might be ascribed to the sizes of dendritic trees and the extent and response dynamics of relevant receptors, bipolars, horizontals and amacrines. Even in a simple retina such as Limulus the receptive fields and response dynamics of both the receptors and eccentric cells (interneuron-ganglion cell analogs) determine the overall properties.
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Lange, G.D., Hartline, P.H., Hurley, A.C. (1976). The Question of Lateral Interactions in the Retinas of Cephalopods. In: Zettler, F., Weiler, R. (eds) Neural Principles in Vision. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66432-8_21
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