title: Neurones with strong inhibitory S-cone inputs in the macaque lateral geniculate nucleus.
abstract: Neurons with strong inhibitory short-wavelength sensitive cone (S-cone) inputs have been identified in the macaque geniculate using a tritanopic confusion line test, i.e. by stimulation with equiluminous stimuli which leave excitations of long- and middle-wavelength sensitive cones (L- and M-cones) constant while differentially exciting S-cones. Mathematical simulation of the responses of these cells, using known spectral sensitivities of the cone receptors, demonstrates that they receive excitation from M-cones, inhibition from S-cones, and little or no inhibition from L-cones. Excitatory and inhibitory pools are largely spatially coextensive.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000502:physiology*; D008252:Macaca fascicularis; D009433:Neural Inhibition; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D013053:Spectrophotometry