Altered visual experience and acute visual deprivation affect predatory targeting by infrared-imaging boid snakes

Brain Research

Volumn 919, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 250-258

  Grace, Michael S ^a   Woodward, Owen M ^b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Infrared; Predatory behavior; Sensory map; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SNAKE; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHTHALMOS; BLINDNESS; BOIDAE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORIENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0035940741     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(01)00248-0     Document Type: Article

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