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  • Title: The cone threshold: spatial interactions of rod and cone adapting signals.
    Author: Stromeyer CF, Hill TL.
    Journal: Vision Res; 1983; 23(7):713-22. PubMed ID: 6613014.
    Abstract:
    Steady small blue adapting fields that stimulated only rods produced large threshold elevations for a superimposed tiny red flash that stimulated cones. The threshold elevation differed considerably between observers, confirming the results of Buck (Topical Meeting on Recent Advances in Vision, abstract in Technical Digest, 1980; Invest. Ophthal, visual Sci., Suppl. 20, 207, 1981). A red annulus that stimulated cones reduced slightly the threshold elevation produced by the small rod adapting field. Similarly, when the cone threshold was elevated by a small red field that stimulated only cones, a blue annulus that stimulated rods slightly reduced the threshold of the red cone test flash. These effects, although weak, demonstrate lateral sensitizing interactions between a cone center field and rod annulus, and vice versa, when the cone threshold is assessed with a tiny red flash.
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