Global Jitter Motion of the Retinal Image Dynamically Alters the Receptive Field Properties of Retinal Ganglion Cells.

ABSTRACT: Fixational eye movements induce aperiodic motion of the retinal image. However, it is not yet fully understood how fixational eye movements affect retinal information processing. Here we show that global jitter motion, simulating the image motion during fixation, alters the spatiotemporal receptive field properties of retinal ganglion cells. Using multi-electrode and whole-cell recording techniques, we investigated light-evoked responses from ganglion cells in the isolated goldfish retina. Ganglion cells were classified into six groups based on the filtering property of light stimulus, the membrane properties, and the cell morphology. The spatiotemporal receptive field profiles of retinal ganglion cells were estimated by the reverse correlation method, where the dense noise stimulus was ap

SUBMITTER: Matsumoto A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6753181 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature