Impaired vision for binocular tasks after unilateral optic nerve regeneration in the frog Litoria moorei

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 195-201

  Dunlop, S A ^a   Roberts, J D ^a   Armstrong, K N ^a   Edwards, S J ^a   Reynolds, S J ^a   Thom, M D ^a   Beazley, L D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

binocular vision; frog; optic nerve regeneration; visuo motor behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031055444     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)00150-7     Document Type: Article

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