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Modeling retinal high and low contrast sensitivity filters

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In this paper two types of ganglion cells in the visual system of mammals (monkey) are modeled. A high contrast sensitive type, the so called M-cells, which project to the two magno-cellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and a low sensitive type, the P-cells, which project to the four parvo-cellular layers of the LGN. The results will be compared with the ganglion cells as described by Kuffler.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700, AV Groningen, The Netherlands

    T. Lourens

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Lourens, T. (1995). Modeling retinal high and low contrast sensitivity filters. In: Mira, J., Sandoval, F. (eds) From Natural to Artificial Neural Computation. IWANN 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 930. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59497-3_157

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