We have studied the responses of ganglion cells of the cat retina to visual stimulation remote from the center of their receptive field. Following previous work, this response is termed the periphery effect (PE). Cells were identified as Y-, X- or W-class from the latency of their response to optic chiasm stimulation and from their receptive field properties. The strength of the PE elicited by a rotating windmill or counterphased grating stimulus was measured for ganglion cells of all major classes. The PE was consistently stronger in Y- than in X-cells, and the strength of the effect in both X- and Y-cells increased significantly with retinal eccentricity. A PE was elicited from about 47% of W-cells studied. In some (36%) the effect was excitatory, as for X- and Y-cells; in others (11%) it was inhibitory. Despite this heterogeneity, the PE in W-cells increased significantly with eccentricity. These variations of the PE with eccentricity and cell class have implications for the circuitry of the inner plexiform layer.
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