Effects of focal inactivation of dorsal or ventral layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus on cats' ability to see and fixate small targets

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2206-2209

  Tate, Andrew K ^a   Malpeli, Joseph G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; EYE FIXATION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

EID: 0031795956     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.4.2206     Document Type: Article

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