Binocular interactions and disparity coding in area 21a of cat extrastriate visual cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 257-272

  Wang, Chun ^a   Dreher, Bogdan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binocular positional disparities; Binocular summation and facilitation; Cat; Depth discrimination; Orientation selectivity

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CAT; CELL SUBPOPULATION; MONOCULAR VISION; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029919574     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00228099     Document Type: Article

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