Receptive Fields Have a Center and Concentric Surround That Stimulate

Receptive fields have a center and concentric surround that stimulate the firing of action potentials in opposition to one another.Given this arrangement, the response and pattern of firing would you expect from an off-center retinal ganglion cell when a spot of light hits the center of its receptive field is that the ganglion cell would

A) be excited and would decrease its firing rate.
B) be inhibited and would increase its firing rate.
C) increase its firing rate, even though the photoreceptors would be inhibited.
D) be excited and its firing rate would increase.
E) be inhibited, and its firing rate would decrease.

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