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Chicken retinal ganglion cells response characteristics: multi-channel electrode recording study

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The first stage of visual processing occurs in the retina, the function of which is to process the raw information obtained from the outside world. In the present study, the electrical activities of a group of retinal ganglion cells were recorded from a small functioning piece of retina, using multi-electrode array (MEA), and the action potentials were detected by applying nonlinear algorithm. By analyzing the ensemble retinal ganglion output characteristics, it is revealed that both firing rates and correlated activity between adjacent neurons in the retina contribute to visual information encoding.

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  1. Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200031, Shanghai, China

    Aihua Chen

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Yi Zhou, Haiqing Gong & Peiji Liang

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Chen, A., Zhou, Y., Gong, H. et al. Chicken retinal ganglion cells response characteristics: multi-channel electrode recording study. Sci. China Ser. C.-Life Sci. 46, 414–421 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03192584

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