Functional subdivisions of the ascending visual pathways in the pigeon

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 193-201

  Güntürkün, Onur ^a   Hahmann, Uwe ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avian; Cognition; Lateral geniculate; Lateralization; Rotundus; Tectofugal; Thalamofugal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; MONOCULAR VISION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DIENCEPHALON; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; MICROELECTRODES; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0033082154     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00084-9     Document Type: Article

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