Suppressive rod-cone interactions: evidence for separate retinal (temporal) and extraretinal (spatial) mechanisms in achromatic vision.
J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis
; 14(9): 2487-98, 1997 Sep.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9291616
ABSTRACT
We investigated the influence of selective rod light and dark adaptation on cone-mediated sensitivity to monocular displays modulated sinusoidally in both spatial and temporal domains. Rod light adaptation (1) increased sensitivity to high spatial frequencies [> or = 8 cycles per degree (cpd)] flickered slowly (< or = 2 Hz), an effect that we refer to as grating suppressive rod-cone interaction (gSRCI); (2) increased sensitivity to low spatial frequencies (< or = 2 cpd) flickered rapidly (> or = 8 Hz), an effect that we refer to as flicker suppressive rod-cone interaction (fSRCI); and (3) had relatively little influence on intermediate temporal-spatial-frequency combinations. The magnitudes of both gSRCI and fSRCI increased as the retinal position of the test display was increasingly displaced parafoveally. In parafoveal retina, both forms of suppressive rod-cone interaction increased as the overall dimension of the test stimulus decreased. However, sensitivity to high spatial frequencies is equally well influenced by adaptation of the viewing and the contralateral eye, while the adapted state of the nonviewing eye negligibly influences sensitivity to rapid flicker. Moreover, gSRCI cannot be observed with a small (30-arcmin) grating restricted to the fovea, while fSRCI is a prominent effect with small foveal test stimuli. Collectively, these results and neurobiological evidence suggest that fSRCI reflects a mechanism restricted to distal retinal, while gSRCI involves extraretinal neural circuitry.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Photoreceptor Cells
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Retina
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Space Perception
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Vision, Ocular
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis
Journal subject:
OFTALMOLOGIA
Year:
1997
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States