Horizontal-disparity tuning of neurons in the visual forebrain of the behaving barn owl

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2967-2979

  Nieder, Andreas ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FOREBRAIN; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0034083366     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.5.2967     Document Type: Article

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