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  • Title: Retinal afferents to the pigeon optic tectum: discharge characteristics in response to whole field illumination.
    Author: Duff TA, Cohen DH.
    Journal: Brain Res; 1975 Jul 04; 92(1):1-19. PubMed ID: 1174936.
    Abstract:
    Responses of pigeon retinotectal afferents to changes in whole field illumination are quantitatively analyzed for 313 units recorded in the stratum opticum. One hundred per cent of these units were responsive in unanesthetized birds and 92.9 percent in urethane anesthetized preparations. Of the responsive units, 92.4 percent (anesthetized) and 100 percent (unanesthetized) gave on-responses whose discharge characteristics showed an orderly relationship to stimulus intensity. Following the on-response, discharge generally ceased during sustained illumination. At stimulus termination off-responses frequently occurred, their probability being a function of stimulus intensity and duration. This probability, as well as specific response characteristics, could be predicted to a large extent from on-response characteristics. Anesthesia and level of background illumination predictably affected these response characteristics quantitatively but did not alter them qualitatively. It is hypothesized that with respect to whole field illumination the pigeon's retinotectal afferents constitute a homogeneous population continuously distributed according to threshold for intensity change.
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