Post eye-opening maturation of visual receptive field diameters in the superior colliculus of normal- and dark-reared rats

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 263-266

  Binns, K E ^a   Salt, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

developmental plasticity; experience dependent; superior colliculus; tectum; vision

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TECTUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION;

ANIMALS; DARKNESS; LIGHTING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0030938989     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(97)00004-7     Document Type: Article

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