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If you make a spot
progressively larger, the
response improves until the
receptive-field center is filled,
then it starts to decline as more
and more of the surround is
included, as you can see from
the graph to the left. With a spot
covering the entire field, the
center either just barely wins
out over the surround, or the
result is a draw. This effect
explains why
neurophysiologists before
Kuffler had such lack of
success: they had recorded from
these cells but had generally
used diffuse light--clearly far
from the ideal stimulus.
As we stimulate a single on-
center retinal ganglion cell
with ever larger spots, the
response becomes more
powerful, up to a spot size that
depends on the cell--at most
about 1 degree. This is the
center size. Further
enlargement of the spot causes
a decline, because now the spot
invades the antagonistic
surround. Beyond about 3
degrees there is no further
decline, so that 3 degrees
represents the total receptive
field, center plus surround.