Explain the Concept of a Receptive Field in the Visual

question 78

Essay

Explain the concept of a receptive field in the visual system and provide an example of this concept for a ganglion cell within the cat retina.

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Definitions:

Stereosiomer

Molecules with the same molecular formula and sequence of bonded atoms, but they differ in the 3D orientation of their atoms in space.

Carboxylic Acid

Organic compounds that contain a carboxyl group (-COOH), which consists of a carbon atom double-bonded to an oxygen atom and single-bonded to a hydroxyl group.

Oligopeptide

An oligopeptide is a short chain of amino acids, typically having fewer than 20 residues, connected by peptide bonds.

Polypeptide

A linear organic polymer consisting of a large number of amino-acid residues bonded together in a chain, forming part of (or the whole of) a protein molecule.