1) Sensory system
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The receptive field of an individual sensory neuron is the particular part of the body surface in which a stimulus will trigger the firing of that neuron. This surface can be a hair in the cochlea or a piece of skin, retina, tongue or other part of an animal`s body. Additionally, it can be the space surrounding an animal, such as an area of audit....
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(from the article `eye, human`) Records from single optic nerve fibres of the frog and from the ganglion cell of the mammalian retina indicated three types of response. In the frog ...
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region within which an electrode detects electrical activity
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That part of the retina whose photoreceptors (rods and cones) pertain to a single optic nerve fibre. The response of a neuron to stimulation of its receptive field depends on the type of neuron and the part of the field that is illuminated; an 'on-centre' neuron is stimulated by light falling at the centre of its receptive field and inhibited by li...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. that part of the retina of which the photoreceptors (rods and cones) pertain to a single optic nerve fiber. The response of a neuron to stimulation of its receptive field depends on the type of neuron and the part of the field that is illuminated; an 'on-center' neuron is stimulated by light falling at the center of its r...
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The visual area from which a given ganglion cell receives information.
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