Visuotopic reorganization in the primary visual cortex of adult cats following monocular and binocular retinal lesions

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 388-405

  Schmid, Leisa M ^a   Rosa, Marcello G P ^a   Calford, Michael B ^a   Ambler, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HABITUATION; HISTOLOGY; LASER COAGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA DISEASE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LASERS; LIGHT COAGULATION; OPTIC DISK; RETINA; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0029953706     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/6.3.388     Document Type: Article

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