Seeing beyond the midline: The role of the contralateral isthmotectal projection in the leopard frog

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 467-476

  Weber, Brett C ^a   Waldeck, Robert F ^a   Gruberg, Edward R ^a  

^a Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DENERVATION; FROG; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MESENCEPHALON; MONOCULAR VISION; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; DENERVATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MESENCEPHALON; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANA PIPIENS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0030138327     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0952523800008142     Document Type: Article

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