Primate Retina: Duplex Function of Dark-Adapted Ganglion Cells
- 26 March 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 147 (3665) , 1593-1594
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.147.3665.1593
Abstract
Certain ganglion cells from the central region of dark-adapted retina of the rhesus monkey respond to stimulation of both rod and cone receptors. With dim stimuli the function of these ganglion cells is determined entirely by the rods; with brighter stimuli that affect both dark-adapted rods and cones, little evidence of rod function is detectable because a cone mechanism appears to determine both the latency and frequency of ganglion-cell firing.Keywords
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