Continuous movement of remote patterns and shift-effect of cat retinal ganglion cells.
During continuous movement of a large global pattern remote from the classical receptive field retinal ganglion cells discharge considerably faster (continuous shift effect), and center responses are decreased in amplitude for neurons with a relatively high ongoing activity (mostly ON-center) but increased for neurons with no ongoing discharge (mostly OFF-center). The results suggest that all retinal ganglion cells have more or less access to one long range mechanism, which is non-linear and almost all-or-none in nature.
D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D005724:Ganglia / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D012160:Retina / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular