Discrimination performance and resolution capacity of uncrossed visual pathways in one-eyed albino rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 141-146

  Sakai, Makoto ^a   Ikeda, Yukinobu ^a   Yagi, Fumio ^b  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albino rat; Horizontal vertical discrimination; Monocular enucleation at birth; Resolution capacity of uncrossed visual pathways

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0030068959     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02035-7     Document Type: Article

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