Single-unit responses to whole-field visual stimulation in the pretectum of Rana pipiens

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 193-197

  Li, Zheng ^a   Fite, Katherine V ^a   Montgomery, Neil M ^a   Wang, S R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Amphibian visual system; Direction selective neurons; Motion sensitive neurons; Nucleus lentiformis mesencephali; Optokinetic nystagmus; Pretectum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FROG; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANA PIPIENS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0030575885     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13117-7     Document Type: Article

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