Properties of sustained and transient ganglion cells in the cat retina

1. The functional basis for a sustained/transient classification of cat retinal ganglion cells has been strengthened by quantitative measurements of the sizes of the centre and surround components of receptive fields. Transient cells had larger surrounds than sustained; the distributions were non‐overlapping. Although the distributions of centre sizes overlapped, the transient cells had very significantly larger centres on average.

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