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center-surround organization: a standalone construct

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Neuroscience

a receptive field arrangement in which light in the center excites a cell while light in the surrounding ring inhibits it, or the reverse.

In neuroscience, center-surround organization refers to a receptive field arrangement in which light in the center excites a cell while light in the surrounding ring inhibits it, or the reverse. This meaning comes from Kuffler (1953) in Journal of Neurophysiology.[1]

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References

Kuffler, S. W. (1953). Discharge Patterns and Functional Organization of Mammalian Retina. Journal of Neurophysiology, 16(1), 37-68. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.1953.16.1.37

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