The study aimed to establish a comprehensive computational model of intensity adaptation mechanisms, which predicts key features
of experimental responses (1). We elaborated on a previous adaptation model (2) which presents retinal adaptation mechanisms
and predicts responses to aperiodic stimuli. The model suggests that the temporal decline in the response of the retinal ganglion
cells is a reflection of the adaptation mechanism (“curve shifting”(3)). This adaptation mechanism is applied to each cell
receptive-field (RF) region (center and surround) separately, and only then the subtraction operation between the two regions
is performed. The elaborated model was tested by simulating various periodic sinusoidal fields, which varied in DC level,
and frequency (1–30 Hz). The model’s results are in agreement with various psychophysical and physiological findings and predict
most of the psychophysical key features (1). Until now, no existing model has been able to predict the key features of the
experimental findings (1).