Responses of single neurons in the toad's caudal ventral striatum to moving visual stimuli and test of their efferent projection by extracellular antidromic stimulation/recording techniques

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 338-354

  Buxbaum Conradi, H ^a   Ewert, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Anamniote; Anuran; Optic tectum; Prey catching; Striatum; Toad; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; TOAD; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0033490589     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006633     Document Type: Article

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