Orientation discrimination in the cat: Its cortical locus II. Extrastriate cortical areas

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 364, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 32-50

  Sprague, James M ^a   De Weerd, Peter ^b   Xiao, Deng Ke ^b   Vandenbussche, Erik ^b   Orban, Guy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ablation; behavior; visual cortex; visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CAT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; CEREBRAL DECORTICATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030043604     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960101)364:1<32::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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