Removal of two halves restores the whole: Reversal of visual hemineglect during bilateral cortical or collicular inactivation in the cat

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1143-1156

  Lomber, Stephen G ^a   Payne, Bertram R ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Middle suprasylvian cortex; Posterior parietal cortex; Reversible cooling deactivation; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOANESTHESIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030278914     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800007781     Document Type: Article

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