Diverse receptive fields in the lateral geniculate nucleus during thalamocortical development

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 608-616

  Tavazoie, Sohail F ^a   Reid, R Clay ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HUMAN; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FERRETS; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0034075148     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/75786     Document Type: Article

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