John Demb

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papers

Retina: linear & nonlinear mechanisms

Hochstein S, and Shapley RM (1976). Linear and nonlinear spatial subunits in Y cat retinal ganglion cells. J. Physiol. 262, 265-284.

Chichilnisky EJ (2001). A simple white noise analysis of neuronal light responses. Network, 12, 199-213.[pdf]

Chichilnisky EJ, Kalmar RS (2002). Functional asymmetries in ON and OFF ganglion cells of primate retina. J Neurosci 22:2737-47.[pdf]

Demb JB, Haarsma L, Freed MA, and Sterling P (1999). Functional circuitry of the retinal ganglion cell's nonlinear receptive field. J. Neurosci. 19, 9756-9767.[pdf]

Demb JB, Zaghloul K, Haarsma L, Sterling P (2001). Bipolar cells contribute to nonlinear spatial summation in the brisk-transient (Y) ganglion cell in mammalian retina. J Neurosci. 21, 7447-54.[pdf]

Zaghloul KA, Boahen K, and Demb JB (2003). Different circuits for ON and OFF retinal ganglion cells cause different contrast sensitivities. Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 2645-2654.[pdf]

Retina: contrast adaptation mechanisms

Shapley RM, Victor JD (1978). The effect of contrast on the transfer properties of cat retinal ganglion cells. J Physiol., 285, 275-98.

Victor JD (1987). The dynamics of the cat retinal X cell centre. J Physiol 386:219-46.

Benardete EA, Kaplan E (1999). The dynamics of primate M retinal ganglion cells. Vis Neurosci 16:355-68.[abstract]

Chander D, Chichilnisky EJ (2001). Adaptation to Temporal Contrast in Primate and Salamander Retina. J Neurosci., 21, 9904-9916.[pdf]

Kim KJ, Rieke F. (2001) Temporal contrast adaptation in the input and output signals of salamander retinal ganglion cells. J Neurosci. Jan 1;21(1):287-99.[pdf]

Rieke F (2001). Temporal contrast adaptation in salamander bipolar cells. J Neurosci., 21, 9445-9954.[pdf]

Baccus & Meister (2002) Fast and slow contrast adaptation in retinal circuitry. Neuron. Dec 5;36(5):909-19.[pdf]

Kim KJ, Rieke F (2003). Slow Na+ inactivation and variance adaptation in salamander retinal ganglion cells. J Neurosci 23:1506-16.[pdf]

Yu Y, Lee TS (2003). Dynamical mechanisms underlying contrast gain control in single neurons. Phys Rev E 68, 011901.[abstracts]

Solomon SG, Peirce JW, Dhruv NT, Lennie P (2004). Profound contrast adaptation early in the visual pathway. Neuron 42, 155-162.[pdf]

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