Purpura K, Kaplan E, Shapley R M
Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021-6399.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1988 Jun;85(12):4534-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.85.12.4534.
Retinal ganglion cells projecting to the monkey lateral geniculate nucleus fall into two classes: those projecting to the magnocellular layers of the nucleus (M cells) have a higher contrast gain to luminance patterns at photopic levels of retinal illumination than those projecting to the parvocellular layers (P cells). We report here that this difference in luminance contrast gain between M and P cells is maintained at low levels of mean retinal illumination. In fact, our results suggest that in the mesopic and scotopic ranges of mean illumination, the M-cell/magnocellular pathway is the predominant conveyor of information about spatial contrast to the visual cortex.
投射到该核大细胞层(M细胞)的细胞,在视网膜明视照明水平下,对亮度模式的对比度增益高于投射到小细胞层(P细胞)的细胞。我们在此报告,M细胞和P细胞之间在亮度对比度增益上的这种差异在视网膜平均照明水平较低时依然存在。事实上,我们的结果表明,在平均照明的中间视觉和暗视觉范围内,M细胞/大细胞通路是向视觉皮层传递有关空间对比度信息的主要途径。