A Microcomputer System for Spatiotemporal Visual Receptive Field Analysis |
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Authors: | Mizuno Makoto Imai Satoshi Tsukada Minoru Hida Eiki Naka Ken-Ichi |
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Affiliation: | Department of Information Science and Communication Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Tamagawa University; |
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Abstract: | A microcomputer system was developed to measure visual spatiotemporal receptive fields. The system performs three functions: 1) generation of a binary spatiotemporal white-noise stimulus, 2) acquisition of spike discharges from retinal ganglion cells, and 3) extraction of the linear part of the spatiotemporal receptive flelds by cross correlating the input against the output. We have applied this system to the measurement of the spatiotemporal receptive fields of cat and catfish retinal ganglion cells. |
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