Amacrine cells seem to have several different functions, many of them unknown: one type of amacrine seems to play a part in specific responses to moving objects found in retinas of frogs and rabbits; another type is interposed in the path that links ganglion cells to those bipolar cells that receive rod input.e have seen that the main features of the ganglion-cell receptive fields are to be found already in the bipolar cells. This leaves open the question of what transformations of information occur between bipolars and ganglion cells.