Direction discrimination learning in normal and visually deprived cats and the effects of lateral suprasylvian lesions

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 235-245

  Burnat, Kalina ^a   Zernicki, Bogusław ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cat; Motion discrimination; Suprasylvian lesion; Visual deprivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MOTION; NONHUMAN; REACTION TIME; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030746583     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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