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For this end-stopped cell,
responses improve up to 2
degrees but then decline, so
that a line 6 degrees or longer
gives no response.
One additional kind of
specificity occurs prominently
in the striate cortex. An
ordinary simple or complex cell
usually shows length
summation: the longer the
stimulus line, the better is the
response, until the line is as
long as the receptive field;
making the line still longer has
no effect. For an end-stopped
cell, lengthening the line
improves the response up to
some limit, but exceeding that
limit in one or both directions
results in a weaker response, as
shown in the diagram to the
left. Some cells, which we call
completely end stopped, do not
respond at all to a long line. We
call the region from which
responses are evoked the
activating region and speak of
the regions at one or both ends
as inhibitory. The total
receptive field is consequently
made up of the activating region
and the inhibitory region or
regions at the ends. The
stimulus orientation that best
evokes excitation in the
activating region evokes
maximal inhibition in the
outlying area(s). This can be
shown by repeatedly
stimulating the activating
region with an optimally
oriented line of optimal length
while testing the outlying
region with lines of varying
orientation, as shown in the
following diagram.