Dynamics of the cone-horizontal cell circuit in the turtle retina.
The model of the catfish retina (Siminoff, in press) has been extended to the turtle retina with incorporation of color-coding. The turtle retina contains 6 types of cones of which 4 are red-sensitive and the other 2 are green- and blue-sensitive, respectively. The cone-horizontal circuit incorporates negative feedback from the L-HC to all the cones having input to the L-HC. By use of systems analysis, Laplace transforms and the convolution theorem, impulse responses, that give information as to gain and phase, for the cone-types and L-HC were simulated. As with the catfish retina, negative feedback gain was proportional to the dc level of the L-HC and therefore, the mean illuminance level. It was shown that this mechanism can be an important factor in chromatic adaptation, since the gains of the various cone-types are preferentially altered dependent on mean illuminance level and wavelength of the background light.
D000818:Animals; D003118:Color Perception; D005246:Feedback; D005399:Fishes; D008433:Mathematics; D008959:Models, Neurological; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014426:Turtles