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VISION-LIST Digest 1988 09 30
Vision-List Digest Fri Sep 30 09:54:40 PDT 1988
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Today's Topics:
Re: temporal domain in vision
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 88 11:31:46 PDT
From: stiber@CS.UCLA.EDU (Michael D Stiber)
Subject: Re: temporal domain in vision
lag@cseg.uucp (L. Adrian Griffis) writes:
> My understanding is that neurons in the eye depart from a number of
> general rules that neurons seem to follow elsewhere in the nervous system.
> One such departure is that sections of a neuron can fire independent
> of other sections. This allows the eye to behave as though is has a great
Actually, neurons in many places have been found to have trigger zones
in places other than the axon hillock. For instance, Purkinje cells
seem to have them scattered throughout their dendritic arborization.
The functional implications are left as an exercise for the reader
:-).
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