Experience-dependent plasticity of visual acuity in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3781-3786

  Prusky, Glen T ^a   West, Paul W R ^a   Douglas, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acuity; Behaviour; Binocular; Critical period; Deprivation; Monocular; Rat; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, LOW; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0033791643     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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