The tendency of adjacent neural elements of the visual system to inhibit each other; it underlies brightness contrast and the accentuation of contours. See also brightness contrast.
Inhibition mediated by lateral interneurons, in which sensory stimuli at a particular location on the sensory surface inhibits activity in sensory pathways originating from adjacent regions of the sensory surface.
The basic means by which edges are detected in the retina. Adjacent excitatory and inhibitory regions signal differences in illumination between them.
The process whereby a signal produced by a given cell prevents adjacent cells from acquiring their fate.
is the reciprocal suppression of submaximally excited inputs by neighbouring neurons in a sensory pathway. It serves to increase contrast within the sensory pathway
Arrangement of neurons common in sensory or escape systems in which adjacent neurons in the array make reciprocal inhibitory connections with each other, resulting in constrast enhancement
The signal produced by one cell that prevents adjacent cells from acquiring their fate.
Lateral inhibition is a mechanism by which neurons are able to determine more precisely the origin of a stimulus.