The effect of contrast on the transfer properties of cat retinal ganglion cells.

By Robert Shapley, J. Victor. 1978

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Contrast Gain Control in Auditory Cortex (2011, unknown): “Considerable evidence suggests that the mammalian visual system uses contrast gain control (Shapley and Victor, 1978) so that it can operate in both high- and low-contrast environments.”
Multiple mechanisms for contrast adaptation in the retina. (2002, background): “Changes in integration time and gain persisted photoreceptors, and thus it must arise in the retinal as long as contrast remained high, but the initial rise in circuit (Shapley and Victor, 1978; Sakai et al., 1995; Smirspike rate slowly declined (Second Figure).”
Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense (2020, background): “[473] Robert M Shapley, Jonathan D Victor, The effect of contrast on the transfer properties of cat retinal ganglion cells, The Journal of physiology 285 (1) (1978) 275–298.”
Functional mechanisms shaping lateral geniculate responses to artificial and natural stimuli. (2008, background): “, 2001; Meister and Berry, 1999; Shapley and Enroth-Cugell, 1984); the latter begins in the retina (Baccus and Meister, 2002; Demb, 2002; Meister and Berry, 1999; Shapley and Enroth-Cugell, 1984; Shapley and Victor, 1978; Victor, 1987) and becomes progressively stronger at later stages in the visual”
Mechanisms for Stable, Robust, and Adaptive Development of Orientation Maps in the Primary Visual Cortex (2013, background): “There is a wealth of experimental evidence supporting the idea that contrast-gain control first arises early in the visual pathway (Shapley and Victor, 1978; Derrington and Lennie, 1984; Sclar, 1987; Truchard et al., 2000; Baccus and Meister, 2002; Alitto and Usrey, 2004).”
The Suppressive Field of Neurons in Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (2005, methodology): “This assessment of the selectivity of the suppressive field for temporal frequency complements previous studies of gain control in retina and LGN (Shapley and Victor, 1978, 1981; Benardete and Kaplan, 1999).”
X and Y ganglion cells inform the cat's brain about contrast in the retinal image (2004, result): “A considerably larger phase advance was observed in most Y cells, consistent with the observations of Shapley and Victor (1978).”
The Operating Point of the Cortex: Neurons as Large Deviation Detectors (2007, result): “However, in contrast to V1, the LGN nonlinearities had thresholds distributed near zero (Fig.”
Cellular Basis for Contrast Gain Control over the Receptive Field Center of Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cells (2007, methodology): “A second mechanism represents a true “gain control” and rapidly modifies the slope of the stimulus–response relationship ( 100 ms) (Shapley and Victor, 1978; Victor, 1987; Chander and Chichilnisky, 2001; Kim and Rieke, 2001; Baccus and Meister, 2002; Zaghloul et al., 2005; Bonin et al., 2006).”
Complex dynamics of V1 population responses explained by a simple gain-control model (2009, unknown): “Responses in the retina and LGN also show evidence of nonlinear contrast gain-control (Shapley and Victor, 1978; Sclar et al., 1990; Kaplan and Benardete, 2001), and thus it is an open question whether a significant part of the nonlinearity in V1 responses is inherited from its input.”
Linearity and Normalization in Simple Cells of the Macaque Primary Visual Cortex (1997, background): “, 1992) that this mechanism is similar to that observed by Shapley and Victor in cat retinal X ganglion cells (Shapley and Victor, 1978; Victor, 1987).”
The lateral inhibition of perceived contrast is indifferent to on-center/off-center segregation, but specific to orientation. (1993, unknown): “Neural arrays of this type have also been suggested by other psychophysical and physiological studies (Chubb & Sperling, 1988, 1989; Shapley & Victor, 1978; Enroth-Cugell & Jakiela, 1980; Ohzawa, Sclar & Freeman, 1985; Sagi & Hochstein, 1985; Heeger, 1992).”
Eye smarter than scientists believed: Neural computations in circuits of the retina (2010, background): “However, firing of those ganglion cells is suppressed first by the biphasic temporal receptive field, and second by a dynamic gain control mechanism, which itself gets activated by the response to the object (Shapley and Victor, 1978; Victor, 1987; Baccus and Meister, 2002).”