Single axon analysis of pulvinocortical connections to several visual areas in the macaque

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 406, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-250

  Rockland, Kathleen S ^a   Andresen, Jon ^a   Cowie, Robert J ^b,c   Robinson, David Lee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbor size; Attention; Cortical layers; Cortical uniformity; Lateral pulvinar

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; DEXTRAN DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MACACA; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA MULATTA; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0033526082     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990405)406:2<221::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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