Investigations into the source of binocular input to the nucleus of the optic tract in an Australian marsupial, the wallaby Macropus eugenii

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 80-88

  Ibbotson, Michael R ^a   Marotte, Lauren R ^a   Mark, Richard F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binocular circuits; Directional cells; Ipsilateral input; Marsupial; Pretectum

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BINOCULAR VISION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE MOVEMENT; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MACROPODIDAE; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0036401961     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1215-5     Document Type: Article

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