Light Adaptation of Discrete Waves in the Limulus Photoreceptor
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- 1 July 1972
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 60 (1) , 86-101
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.60.1.86
Abstract
Light adaptation affects discrete waves in two ways. It reduces their average size and decreases the probability that a photon incident at the cornea causes a discrete wave. There is no effect of light adaptation on the latency of discrete waves, or on their time-course.Keywords
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