The regional cortical basis of achromatopsia: A study on macaque monkeys and an achromatopsic patient

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1555-1566

  Cowey, Alan ^a   Heywood, Charles A ^b   Irving Bell, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achromatopsia; Cortical colour blindness; Visual area TEO visual area TE

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; LUMINANCE; MACACA; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0035783463     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816X.2001.01774.x     Document Type: Article

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