title: Relevance of the single ommatidium performance in determining the oscillatory response of the Limulus retina.
abstract: The response of a healthy lateral eye of Limulus to constant, uniform and sufficiently intense light stimulation, consists of a sustained oscillatory discharge, all ommatidia firing synchronously in bursts, at intervals of about 0.2s (Barlow and Fraioli, 1978). This response has been analysed by a computer simulation, where the performance of the single unit is described by encoder models of the integrate-and-fire type, already extensively investigated. The results obtained show that the occurrence and the time features of the oscillatory response depend on the neural models adopted.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003201:Computers; D006737:Horseshoe Crabs / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors