Influence of experience on orientation maps in cat visual cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 727-732

  Sengpiel, Frank ^a   Stawinski, Petra ^a   Bonhoeffer, Tobias ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; EYE DOMINANCE; IMAGING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033363694     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/11192     Document Type: Article

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