News Finding: That notion was contrary to classic Greek physics, which held that heavier objects fall faster.
Paper Finding: However, this explanation seemed unlikely because such nonlinearity would cause pronounced differences in the strength of ON and OFF visual responses throughout the visual pathway.
News Context: This finding, in turn, would earn him the attention of the Inquisition, which investigated religious rebellion and heresy in the world of 16th-century Italy. That notion was contrary to classic Greek physics, which held that heavier objects fall faster. What was notable about the experiment was precisely that it was an experiment.
Paper Context: Therefore, the measurements with rectified sinusoidal gratings suggest that the ON visual channel can respond to higher-frequency gratings than the OFF visual channel, just the contrary of what we concluded from measurements of receptive field size (Fig. However, this explanation seemed unlikely because such nonlinearity would cause pronounced differences in the strength of ON and OFF visual responses throughout the visual pathway. To our surprise, OFF visual responses increased their strength roughly linearly with luminance contrast, independently of the background luminance, in both LGN and cortex ( Fig.