A linear spatio-temporal model of the light-to-bipolar cell system and its response characteristics to moving bars
✍ Scribed by J. C. Curlander; V. Z. Marmarelis
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 603 KB
- Volume
- 57
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-1200
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✦ Synopsis
A linear spatio-temporal model for the visual pathway from receptor to bipolar cell is presented. This model is based on histological and electrophysiological data obtained from previously published work. The model incorporates the salient linear spatiotemporal dynamic characteristics of the light-tobipolar cell system, and aims at furthering our understanding of the integrated spatio-temporal response characteristics of this system. This model is used to examine the way spatial and temporal dynamic characteristics combine to form the response of a single bipolar and of a combination of two bipolars to a moving bar stimulus. A unimodal "speed sensitivity curve" is identified that can be used to postulate speed detection schemes based on simple thresholding operations. The dependence of this speed sensitivity curve on specific temporal and spatial parameters of the receptive field is studied, giving rise to some simple speed discrimination schemata.