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These graphs plot the
sensitivity of a cell (measured,
for example, by the response to
a constant very small spot of
light) against retinal position
along a line AA' passing through
the receptive-field center. For
an r+ center-g- surround cell, a
small red spot gives a narrow
curve and a small green spot, a
much broader one. The lower
graph plots the responses to
light such as white or yellow
that stimulates both of the
opponent systems, so that the
two systems subtract. Thus the
red cones dominate in the
center, which gives on
responses, whereas the green
cones dominate in the
surround, which yields off
responses.
Both the red cones and the
green cones feed in from a
fairly wide circular area, in
numbers that are maximal in
the center and fall off with
distance from the center. In the
center, the red cones strongly
predominate, and with distance
their effects fall off much more
rapidly than those of the green
cones. A long-wavelength small
spot shining in the center will
consequently be a very
powerful stimulus to the red
system; even if it also
stimulates green cones, the
number, relative to the total
number of green cones feeding
in, will be too small to give the
red system any competition.
The same argument applies to
the center-surround cells
described in Chapter 3, whose
receptive fields similarly must
consist of two opponent
circular overlapping areas
having different-shaped
sensitivity-versus-position
curves. Thus the surround is
probably not annular, or donut
shaped, as was originally
supposed, but filled. With these
opponent-color cells in
monkeys, it is supposed--
without evidence so far--that
the surrounds represent the
contributions of horizontal
cells.