Dynamics of Population Synchrony of Retinal Ganglion Cells During Response to Contrast Stimulus
The contrast adaptation characterized by retinal ganglion cells when exposed to high density contrast patterns are of important psychophysical significance in visual system. The synchronous discharges exhibit an important way of coding mechanism for information transmission. Our recent study recorded discharges simultaneously from a group of neighbor neurons under contrast stimulus and analyzed the dynamics of population synchrony by employing a measurement of discrepancy, which is based on information theory. The results showed that the population of retinal ganglion cells evolved dynamical synchrony during response to the contrast stimulus. This evolutionary synchrony may contribute to revealing that the coding mechanism was probably embedded in the precise temporal alignment of neuron population.
dynamics population synchrony retinal ganglion cell contrast
Li Bing Liu Xue Liang Pei-Ji Zhang Pu-Ming
School of Life Science and Biotechnology Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China
国际会议
上海
英文
2072-2075
2008-05-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）