The effect of dark-rearing, strobe-rearing and acute visual cortex removal on the visual responses in the superficial superior colliculus of the guinea-pig

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 216-220

  Thornton, S K ^a,b   Withington, D J ^a   McCrossan, D ^a   Ingham, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex removal; Directional selectivity; Superior colliculus; Topography; Visual deprivation; Visual space map

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUINEA PIG; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0030576607     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12851-2     Document Type: Article

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