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After the cessation of a sinusoidally modulated stimulus, the ERG response is found to continue, in the form of a damped oscillation (the time constant of the decay process being of the order of 1 sec) with the same frequency as the primary stimulus (3.7 Hz).
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Ronchi, L., Molesini, G. (1976). Time Constant of the Decay Process of Both ERG and Ver at the Off-Set of Stimulation. In: Alfieri, R., Solé, P. (eds) XIIth I. S. C. E. R. G. Symposium. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1575-2_14
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