Visual circuits of the avian telencephalon: Evolutionary implications

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 183-191

  Shimizu, Toru ^a   Bowers, Alexia N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collothalamic pathway; Comparative neuroanatomy; Evolution; Lemnothalamic pathway; Pigeons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; EVOLUTION; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EVOLUTION; NERVE NET; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0033083745     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00083-7     Document Type: Article

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