TRANSFER FUNCTION OF A BIOLOGICAL PHOTORECEPTOR ONE OF A SERIES OF REPORTS PERTAINING TO CYBERNETIC STUDIES OF BIOLOGICAL PHOTORECEPTOR

摘要

A biological transducer of electromagnetic radiation energy to pulse rate modulated nerve impulse signals has been selected for study because of its lack of complex specialized accessory mechanisms. This simple crayfish photosensitive ganglion was subjected to a steady state analysis relying mainly on sinusoidal input light signals. The output signals of the population of nerve fibers were analyzed to yield a linear transfer function over the frequency range studied.