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No doubt about offset latency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

WYETH BAIR
WYETH BAIR
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University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, UK
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Abstract

Neuronal response latency usually refers to the time between the presentation of a visual stimulus and the elevation in firing rate that follows. Expanding on this idea, the concept of response offset latency refers to the time between the removal of a stimulus (or its replacement with one that is less effective) and the resulting decline in firing rate. The initial observation that offset latency is usually shorter than onset latency (Bair et al., 2002) has been called into question on the basis of the pulsatile nature of visual stimuli presented on a CRT (Gawne & Woods, 2003). Here, a counter argument is presented in support of the results of Bair et al., 2002.

Keywords

Response latencyResponse offsetNeuronal integration time

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Research Article
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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , September 2004 , pp. 671 - 674
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2004 Cambridge University Press

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