Optimal design of photoreceptor mosaics: why we do not see color at night.

abstract：:Horizontal cells and cone photoreceptors in the vertebrate retina are interconnected by a complex network of synapses leading to the generation of color-coded responses in chromaticity horizontal cells. A simple cascade model of excitatory feedforward and inhibitory feedback synapses had been suggested to underlie the...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Asi H,Perlman I

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccadic suppression is the reduced visibility that occurs during saccadic eye movements. Recent psychophysical studies have suggested that this is due to a reduction in responsiveness of magnocellular (M), but not parvocellular (P), cells of the lateral geniculate nucleus. To address this and other phenomena of respo...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Ramcharan EJ,Gnadt JW,Sherman SM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice overexpressing bcl-2, due to inhibition of naturally occurring cell death, have much larger brains and optic nerves as compared to wild-type mice. Since developmental cell death is believed to exert a crucial role in establishing the mature neural circuitry and function, we asked the question of whethe...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Porciatti V,Pizzorusso T,Maffei L

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium (TMGC) is in its fifth year of a ethylnitrosourea (ENU)-based mutagenesis screen to detect recessive mutations that affect the eye and brain. Each pedigree is tested by various phenotyping domains including the eye, neurohistology, behavior, aging, ethanol, drug, social behavior, ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Jablonski MM,Wang X,Lu L,Miller DR,Rinchik EM,Williams RW,Goldowitz D

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of contrast discrimination performance in human observers is developed and then extended to cover effects on performance of anticholinergic drugs. It is shown that it is necessary to assume that neural noise increases at high spatial frequencies in order to provide a satisfactory model of variations in discrim...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Smith AT

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a part of ongoing efforts to understand the cholinergic circuitry in the mammalian retina, we studied the coexpression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the GABA transporter 1 (GAT-1), or choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) immunoreactivity in the rabbit retina. Double-l...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Dmitrieva NA,Lindstrom JM,Keyser KT

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bresiliid shrimp, Rimicaris exoculata, lives in large masses on the sides of hydrothermal vent chimneys at two sites on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Although essentially no daylight penetrates to depths of 3500 m, very dim light is emitted from the hydrothermal vents themselves. To exploit this light, R. exoculata has ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： O'Neill PJ,Jinks RN,Herzog ED,Battelle BA,Kass L,Renninger GH,Chamberlain SC

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this work was to provide a detailed quantitative description of the receptive-field properties of one of the types of rarely encountered retinal ganglion cells of cat; the cell named the Q-cell by Enroth-Cugell et al. (1983). Quantitative comparisons are made between the discharge statistics and between th...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Troy JB,Schweitzer-Tong DE,Enroth-Cugell C

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large receptive fields of retinal horizontal cells are thought to reflect extensive electrical coupling via gap junctions. It was shown recently that the biotinylated tracers, biocytin and Neurobiotin, provide remarkable images of coupling between many types of retinal neuron, including horizontal cells. Further, ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Bloomfield SA,Xin D,Persky SE

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer plexiform layer of the retina contains a neural circuit in which cone synaptic terminals are electrically coupled and release glutamate onto wide-field and narrow-field horizontal cells. These are also electrically coupled and feed back through a GABAergic synapse to cones. In cat this circuit's structure is...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Smith RG

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human subjects, the blind spot is perceptually filled-in by color and brightness from the surrounding visual field. The present behavioral study examined the occurrence of color filling-in at the blind spot in monkeys. First, the location of the blind spot was determined using a monocular saccade task. The blind sp...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Komatsu H,Murakami I

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-based studies of retinal neurons have helped to reveal their natural types in mammals and teleost fishes. In this, the first such study in a frog, labeled ganglion cells of the mesobatrachian Xenopus laevis were examined in flatmounts. Cells with large somata and thick dendrites could be divided into three ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Shamim KM,Tóth P,Cook JE

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual perception is not instantaneous; the perceptual representation of our environment builds up over time. This can strongly affect our responses to visual stimuli. Here, we study the temporal dynamics of visual processing by analyzing the time course of priming effects induced by the well-known Ebbinghaus illusion...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Schmidt F,Weber A,Haberkamp A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L and M cones, divided into two groups by absorption spectra, have not been distinguished by structure. Here, we report what may be such a difference. We reconstructed the synaptic terminals of 16 non-S cones and the dendritic arbors of their ON and OFF midget bipolar cells from high-magnification electron micrographs...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Schein S,Ngo IT,Huang TM,Klug K,Sterling P,Herr S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neighboring retinal ganglion cells often spike synchronously, but the possible function and mechanism of this synchrony is unclear. Recently, the strength of the fast correlation between ON-OFF directionally selective cells of the rabbit retina was shown to be stimulus dependent. Here, we extend that study, investigat...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Chatterjee S,Merwine DK,Amthor FR,Grzywacz NM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retina of salmonid fishes has two types of cone photoreceptors: single and double cones. At the nuclear level, these cones are distributed in a square mosaic such that the double cones form the sides of the square and the single cones occupy positions at the centre and at the corners of the square. Double cones co...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Cheng CL,Flamarique IN

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical techniques were used to survey the distribution of several conventional transmitters, receptors, and neuropeptides in the pigeon nucleus of the basal optic root (nBOR), a component of the accessory optic system. Amongst the conventional neurotransmitters/modulators, the most intense labeling of fib...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Britto LR,Hamassaki DE,Keyser KT,Karten HJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinas of adult teleost fish can regenerate following injury, but little is known about the neuronal integration of the visual scene that is performed by the regenerated retina. Using goldfish retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) as the experimental system, an evaluation of dendritic arbor structure and passive electrot...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Cameron DA,Vafai H,White JA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) is known to affect the speed and accuracy of visual judgments, the underlying electrophysiological response has not been explored. In the present study, we therefore investigated the effect of GVS on the N170 event-related potential, a marker commonly associated with earl...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Wilkinson D,Ferguson HJ,Worley A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) are suppressed by stimuli presented in the region surrounding the receptive field. There is debate as to whether this surround suppression is due to intracortical inhibition, is inherited from lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), or is due to a combination of these f...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Durand S,Freeman TC,Carandini M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms that mediate the calcium influx in mammalian horizontal cells were studied. Horizontal cells (HCs) enzymatically dissociated from the rabbit retina were recorded by the whole-cell configuration of the patch-clamp technique and by calcium image ratioespectrophotometry of Fura-2 loaded cells. AMPA-preferring ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Rivera L,Blanco R,de la Villa P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrin is a large extracellular matrix protein that directs the accumulation of acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction. Recent evidence suggests that agrin may be involved in organizing synapses in the visual system as well. Focussing on the pathway that controls accommodation and pupilloconstriction, th...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： McAvoy M,Smith MA,Fujii JT

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increment threshold functions of the electroretinogram (ERG) b-wave were obtained from goldfish using an in vivo preparation to study intraretinal mechanisms underlying the increase in perceived brightness induced by depletion of retinal dopamine by 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA). Goldfish received unilateral intraocular ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Lin ZS,Yazulla S

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual information that first-order cortical cells receive is contained in the visually evoked spike trains of geniculate relay cells. To address functional issues such as the ON/OFF structure of visual cortical receptive fields with modelling studies, a geniculate cell model is needed where the spatial and tempor...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Gazères N,Borg-Graham LJ,Frégnac Y

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starburst amacrine cells (SACs), the only acetylcholine (ACh)-releasing amacrine cells (ACs) in adult rabbit retina, contain GABA and are key elements in the retina's directionally selective (DS) mechanism. Unlike many other GABAergic ACs, they use glutamic acid decarboxlyase (GAD)(67), not GAD(65), to synthesize GABA...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Famiglietti EV,Sundquist SJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in the lateral eye and brain of the horseshoe crab was investigated with histochemical means using standard controls to eliminate butyrylcholinesterase and nonspecific staining. Intense staining was observed in the neural plexus of the lateral compound eye, in the latera...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Hornstein EP,Sambursky DL,Chamberlain SC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effects of inactivation of localized sites in area 17 on the visual responses of cells in visuotopically corresponding regions of area 18. Experiments were performed on adult normal cats. The striate cortex was inactivated by the injection of nanoliters of lidocaine hydrochloride or of gamma-a...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Casanova C,Michaud Y,Morin C,McKinley PA,Molotchnikoff S

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the maturity of three inhibitory mechanisms (end-inhibition, side-inhibition, and cross-orientation inhibition) in the striate cortex of kittens at 4 weeks postnatal. To accomplish this, we made extracellular recordings from area 17 neurons while presenting visual stimuli co...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Green ES,DeAngelis GC,Freeman RD

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocytochemistry and retrograde labeling were used to define the thalamic projections of calbindin- and parvalbumin-containing cells in superficial layers of the rat's superior colliculus (SC). Quantitative analysis revealed that 90.8 +/- 2.2% (mean +/- standard deviation) of the calbindin-immunoreactive neurons in...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Lane RD,Allan DM,Bennett-Clarke CA,Howell DL,Rhoades RW

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the functional connectivity of cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) with the primary visual cortex (V1) in anesthetized marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). The LGN sends signals to V1 along parallel visual pathways called parvocellular (P), magnocellular (M), and koniocellular (K). To better understand...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Cheong SK,Johannes Pietersen AN

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00