Striate, extrastriate and collicular processing of spatial disparity cues

Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 236-244

  Bacon, B A ^a   Lepore, F ^a   Guillemot, Jean Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area 19; Areas 17 18; Cat; Disparity selectivity; Stereopsis; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; STEREOPSIS;

EID: 0032459099     PISSN: 13813455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/apab.106.3.236.4376     Document Type: Article

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