Multivalued stimulus-response relation in isolated elasmobranch utricles
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Biological Cybernetics
- Vol. 31 (2), 111-118
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00344242
Abstract
The relation between a maintained spatial orientation and the corresponding fully adapted discharge rate was multivalued in all the afferents tonically sensitive to maintained spatial orientation observed in isolated utricles of Rhinobates productus. The spread of rate values was of the order of changes produced by natural tilts. The occurrence of multivaluedness in isolated receptors indicated that peripheral issues are sufficient. Two factors contributed: firstly, the side from which the orientation had been reached (i.e. “hysteresis”): higher adapted rates occurred when the preceding orientation was characterized by lower rates and when the corresponding transition caused acceleration; secondly, “spontaneous” rate variations, some of which resembled markedly, and interacted with, the effects of tilts. It was not possible to identify the basic mechanisms underlying these factors. The multivaluedness in the coding of maintained position, because of its constancy and magnitude, cannot be ignored. It, as well as the sensitivity to fast transients, must be taken into account in utricular models, in evaluations of information transmission, and in psychophysical explorations.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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