Functional organization of owl monkey lateral geniculate nucleus and visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 594-609

  O'Keefe, Lawrence P ^a   Levitt, Jonathan B ^a,b   Kiper, Daniel C ^a,c   Shapley, Robert M ^a   Movshon, J Anthony ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurotherapies   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE DOMINANCE; GRATING; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MACACA; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0031840932     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.2.594     Document Type: Article

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