Moreno-Díaz R, Rubio E
Biol Cybern. 1980;37(1):25-31. doi: 10.1007/BF00347639.
The model is based on the concept that non-linear lateral interaction at the inner plexiform layer accounts for most of the specialization and marked non-linearities in cat's retinal ganglion cell responses. The inputs to the lateral interaction processes are a spatio-temporal signal and its retarded, as suggested by the behaviour of simple ganglion cells. Lateral interaction in the model consists of lateral linear inhibition followed by local half wave rectification. The resulting signals are weighted and summated by the ganglion cell thereafter. A transparent and general expression is obtained for the response of the cell model which, albeit its simplicity, leads to most of known types of non-linear responses, including the rarely encountered specialized cells in cat's, retina, except colour coding units. For negligible lateral interaction, the model reduces to spatio-temporal linear models under the two paths hypothesis. A discussion of the possible role of anatomical units in these retinal processes in presented, where a general interpretation for visual processing in cat's retina evolves from.
该模型基于这样一种概念，即内网状层的非线性侧向相互作用是猫视网膜神经节细胞反应中大部分特化和显著非线性的原因。如简单神经节细胞的行为所表明的，侧向相互作用过程的输入是一个时空信号及其延迟信号。模型中的侧向相互作用由侧向线性抑制 followed by local half wave rectification 组成。此后，产生的信号由神经节细胞进行加权和求和。得到了细胞模型反应的一个透明且通用的表达式，尽管其简单，但能产生大多数已知类型的非线性反应，包括猫视网膜中很少遇到的特化细胞，但不包括颜色编码单元。对于可忽略不计的侧向相互作用，在两条路径假设下，该模型简化为时空线性模型。文中对这些视网膜过程中解剖学单元的可能作用进行了讨论，从中得出了对猫视网膜视觉处理的一般解释。 （注：“followed by local half wave rectification”这里“followed by”直译为“接着是”，但“local half wave rectification”不太明确其准确中文术语，可能是专业领域特定表述，暂保留英文。）
