The layout of orientation and ocular dominance domains in area 17 of strabismic cats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2629-2643

  Löwel, Siegrid ^a,b   Schmidt, Kerstin E ^a   Kim, Dae Shik ^a,c   Wolf, Fred ^a,d,e   Hoffsümmer, Frank ^a,e   Singer, Wolf ^a   Bonhoeffer, Tobias ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Experience dependence; Optical imaging; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; DEOXYGLUCOSE; PROLINE; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; ISOTOPE LABELING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRABISMUS; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031879491     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00274.x     Document Type: Article

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