Temporal aspects of contrast visual evoked potentials in the pigmented rat: Effect of dark rearing

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 389-395

  Pizzorusso, Tommaso ^a,b   Fagiolini, Michela ^a,b   Porciatti, Vittorio ^b   Maffei, Lamberto ^a,b  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical period; Plasticity; Visual cortex; Visual deprivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GRATING; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; RATS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031041975     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00172-1     Document Type: Article

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